Migrate from PrestaShop to Shopify, WooCommerce or Magento

To migrate from PrestaShop to Shopify, WooCommerce or Magento, you move four things: data, features, design and search rankings. Automated tools handle most of the data. Features, design and redirects remain work to plan, and they are where migrations go wrong. WooCommerce gives the most continuity on self-hosting, Shopify removes server work, and Magento only makes sense for complex operations with a specialist team.

I should say that I sell this kind of work, so treat my view accordingly. Everything specific below was checked on 1 November 2026 against the vendors' own pages. If your real concern is speed or architecture rather than the platform itself, read my guide on PrestaShop performance limits first.

Before you migrate from PrestaShop: check you need to

Many frustrations come from running an old version. PrestaShop 9, released in June 2025, moved to Symfony 6.4 and supports PHP 8.1 to 8.4. The project warns that some modules and themes may need updates, so an upgrade has a cost as well, but it is often far smaller than replatforming. Get both options priced. Leave when the platform itself is the obstacle, for example because no one in your team wants to run servers, not because a module has gone stale.

Shopify, WooCommerce or Magento: what actually differs

Treat claims from tool vendors as claims, and test them in a rehearsal on a copy of your data. Cart2Cart lists PrestaShop as a source for all three destinations.

Moving to Shopify

The appeal is that you stop running servers. Shopify's migration documentation covers products, customers, historical orders, gift cards, blogs and pages, by CSV, apps or API. It offers guides for platforms such as WooCommerce and Wix, but does not mention PrestaShop on that page, so do not assume a native route exists. Shopify also says to import products first, then customers, then historical orders, since each depends on the previous one.

Two points deserve attention. Cart2Cart states that account credentials do not transfer to Shopify, so prepare a reassuring invitation email. And your addresses will change, as products sit under /products/ and categories under /collections/. Shopify's redirect tool accepts bulk CSV imports, up to 100,000 redirects outside Plus, and only works from URLs that no longer load a page. Budget for the fees too, as the French pricing page shows an extra 2% to 0.2% on third party payment providers, depending on plan.

Moving to WooCommerce

WooCommerce keeps you on PHP and on your own hosting, which feels familiar after PrestaShop. The LitExtension plugin listing names PrestaShop as a source and says it moves products, categories, customers including passwords, orders, taxes and coupons. Its free tier is limited, and you need to tick its SEO URLs option to carry product and category addresses across. Modules are the hard part, as each PrestaShop module needs a replacement or custom work. Check the server requirements as well: PHP 8.3, WordPress 6.9, MySQL 8.0 or MariaDB 10.6. You will still own updates and security, exactly as before.

Moving to Magento

I would only consider this for a large catalog with complex operations and a budget for specialists. Adobe's requirements for 2.4.9, written for Adobe Commerce, list OpenSearch, Valkey, RabbitMQ, Varnish and PHP 8.5, a much heavier stack than most PrestaShop stores run. If you are leaving PrestaShop because hosting and maintenance are a burden, Magento will make that worse. Have your provider confirm the exact stack for the open source edition.

Protecting your rankings and your sales

Export every URL before you touch anything, including products, categories, CMS pages and images that attract traffic, then map each one to its closest new page. Google's guidance asks for permanent server side redirects, warns against sending many old URLs to one unrelated page, advises keeping redirects for at least a year, and says temporary ranking changes are expected. My guide to PrestaShop migration and 301 redirects goes into detail.

Then rehearse. Run the import on a copy, compare order and customer totals, place real test orders, check tax and invoice numbering, and pick a quiet period for the switch. Run a final import of the orders placed since your rehearsal. Keep a tested way back until you are confident.

When none of these is the right destination

If your problem is that off the shelf modules cannot express your business rules, moving to another platform of the same kind may only change the logo on the problem. A custom build or a framework like Sylius may fit better, at the price of needing a developer over time. I work in that area, and I took over the store Coucouroucoucou, with about 15,000 orders carried over along with customers and invoices, without interrupting sales. Equally, if you only sell a modest catalog and want no technical duties, Shopify may well serve you better than anything I would build.

The next step

Ask every provider, me included, for a data mapping, a rehearsal plan, a redirect file and a rollback plan before you sign. If you want a view on your store, see my redesign and migration page or my Sylius page. I reply within 24 business hours.