Squarespace to Shopify Migration That Keeps Your Look, Your Content and Your Rankings

Packages start at $790 for Essential Switch, $1,390 for Brand Match and $2,290 for Whole Site Move. Product volume, option complexity and blog or gallery content are added in the calculator, so most complete moves land between about $1,100 and $3,200. The fixed fee is on screen before any card is charged.

They cover products rebuilt for Shopify, customers with the right country codes, core pages, a redirect file for every old address, a theme in your fonts and colors, a test order and a recorded handover. Higher tiers add the blog import, galleries and order history.

Essential Switch takes 5 to 7 working days, Brand Match 8 to 12 and Whole Site Move 12 to 18. Big catalogs, option restructuring and gallery rebuilds add days. The calculator shows an estimate, and the Sooner and Fastest options shorten it for a launch date.

Products, customers and orders move as data and the blog moves as an XML import. Design, galleries and memberships cannot be exported, so we recreate the look in a Shopify theme and replace features with apps where needed.

Keep Squarespace running while we build and test the new store. The domain changes only after you approve the preview and the redirects pass testing. We time the DNS change for a quiet hour, so visitors see little or no gap.

Export the inventory file, then convert it: handles with letters, dashes and numbers only, weights in grams and no more than three options per item. A raw file often fails or leaves gaps. We do the conversion and check counts against the original.

It reduces the avoidable damage. We redirect every old address, keep titles and descriptions and submit a fresh sitemap. We cannot promise rankings, because competitors and Google's changes matter, but missing redirects are the most common cause of traffic loss.

Check that the domain is at least 60 days old, unlock it and request an authorization code, then start the transfer in Shopify. We handle it for you and connect the domain by DNS first if you need the new store live sooner.

Leave your mail records alone and change only the web records that point to the site. We copy the existing mail settings before touching DNS and test sending afterwards. If a transfer is needed, it follows once everything works.

It exports as an XML file, which we convert and import into Shopify's blog. Images that sit on Squarespace's servers are re-hosted, headings and internal links are checked and each old post address is redirected to its new one.

You can embed Shopify buy buttons on a Squarespace page, but products, orders and customers then live in two systems with two logins. That suits a very small shop. For one store and one checkout, a full migration is cleaner.

Plan fees are close at the entry level, but costs diverge as you add apps, transaction fees and extra features. Shopify's app store adds monthly charges, while Squarespace bundles more in. We explain what applies to your store before you commit.

Galleries, scheduling, member areas and some blog layouts are rebuilt rather than moved. Reviews, discount codes and gift card balances do not export either. We list each in the audit and agree the replacement before building.

Apps such as LitExtension move product, customer and order rows from $59. They do not rebuild your design, convert the blog XML, plan redirects or handle the domain order. An agency owns those steps and checks the result.