--- title: "Magento to Shopify Migration Services for B2B" url: https://www.uncap.com/migration/magento author: "Denis Dyli" published: 2026-06-09 updated: 2026-10-22 summary: "A Magento to Shopify migration moves your products, customer records, order history, and URLs from Magento or Adobe Commerce to Shopify, maps every customer group and pricing rule, and rebuilds your ERP integration for Shopify. A Magento to Shopify migration typically takes 10 to 16 weeks, and across Uncap's Shopify migrations the median cutover is about 14 weeks; complex ERP integrations, large catalogs, or significant custom pricing logic run longer. Customer passwords can't be migrated, so buyers are invited to create new ones, and your Magento store keeps taking orders until the Shopify store is fully validated, with 301 redirects in place before go-live. Uncap is a Shopify Platinum Partner with 380+ storefronts launched on Shopify." --- # Magento to Shopify Migration Services for B2B > A Magento to Shopify migration moves your products, customer records, order history, and URLs from Magento or Adobe Commerce to Shopify, maps every customer group and pricing rule, and rebuilds your ERP integration for Shopify. A Magento to Shopify migration typically takes 10 to 16 weeks, and across Uncap's Shopify migrations the median cutover is about 14 weeks; complex ERP integrations, large catalogs, or significant custom pricing logic run longer. Customer passwords can't be migrated, so buyers are invited to create new ones, and your Magento store keeps taking orders until the Shopify store is fully validated, with 301 redirects in place before go-live. Uncap is a Shopify Platinum Partner with 380+ storefronts launched on Shopify. ## What Moves, What Doesn't, and How Long It Takes A Magento to Shopify migration is a replatform, not a data export. Your products, customer records, order history, and URLs move to Shopify. Your B2B pricing is mapped and rebuilt, your ERP integration is rebuilt for Shopify, and your Magento store keeps taking orders until the Shopify store is validated. - What moves: every product, customer record, order, and URL, with 301 redirects in place before go-live. Shopify's own Magento migration guide sets the import order: products first, customers second, historical orders last. - What gets rebuilt: every customer group, pricing rule, volume discount, contract price, and net payment term from your Magento B2B configuration is mapped into Shopify. Your ERP integration is rebuilt for Shopify's API layer and tested before go-live. - What doesn't transfer: customer passwords and custom Magento modules. Shopify's Help Center explains that because passwords are encrypted outside of Shopify, they can't be migrated with a CSV, so imported customers are invited to create new passwords. Each custom module is audited and replaced with a native Shopify feature, a Shopify app, or a custom Shopify app build where required. - How long it takes: a Magento to Shopify migration typically takes 10 to 16 weeks. Migrations with complex ERP integrations, large catalogs, or significant custom pricing logic run longer. Across Uncap's Shopify migrations, the median cutover is about 14 weeks, and we scope your timeline in discovery before any work begins. - What stays live: your Magento store keeps taking B2B orders through the entire migration, and cutover is a coordinated event your team controls. ## Magento to Shopify Plus Migration Guide for B2B Manufacturers **Why B2B companies are moving their wholesale operation off Magento** Magento built the foundation for B2B ecommerce. Adobe Commerce changed the equation. Rising costs, a shifting roadmap, and the burden of maintenance are pushing companies to modern platforms built for today's wholesale operations. ### 01 · Reputation, Magento earned its reputation Flexible, extensible. Built for complex B2B needs, pricing, ERP, workflow and more. ### 02 · Economics, Adobe Commerce changed the economics Licensing starts at $22K/year and scales up in the cloud. Open Source support is fading. ### 03 · Roadmap, The roadmap follows retail. Not wholesale. Adobe's focus is enterprise retail, not the B2B manufacturers who rely on ERP and wholesale features. ### Reality 01, Every upgrade comes at a cost PHP upgrades and platform updates break custom builds. - Two weeks (or more) of developer time to get back to stable - Plugins update on their own schedules - Custom features deprecate ### Reality 02, Security patches arrive faster than your deployment Adobe ships security patches on its schedule, not yours. - Stage and prod deploys required - Customer ops team patches on the side ### Reality 03, Custom ERP integrations are fragile Built on custom modules tied to deployments above. - Tribal knowledge risk when developers leave - Workarounds outlive the original devs - Compatibility issues with platform updates ### Reality 04, B2B features require developer time New customer group with different catalog? Schedule a sprint. - Roadmap changes per quarter - 8 weeks+ from request to live - But every change goes to the dev queue ### Reality 05, Hosting costs add up fast Dedicated infrastructure for performance and stability. - $5K to $10K+/month for complex environments - Plus database tuning and infrastructure ops Magento earned its place in B2B ecommerce. It was genuinely flexible, genuinely extensible, and genuinely capable of handling the complex pricing structures, ERP [integrations](/integrations), and custom workflows that B2B wholesale requires. For over a decade, it was the default choice for [manufacturers](https://www.uncap.com/solutions/manufacturing) and **distributors** who needed more than a standard ecommerce platform could offer. Adobe Commerce is a different proposition. The rebrand from Magento 2 brought licensing costs that start at $22,000 per year for the on-premise version and climb quickly for cloud. Support for Magento Open Source is progressively diminishing. Adobe's development roadmap follows its enterprise retail customer base, not the B2B manufacturers who depend on ERP integration and wholesale-specific features. Per Adobe's lifecycle policy, as our [Magento end of life guide](/post/magento-end-of-life-security-patches-2026) covers version by version, Adobe Commerce 2.4.6 exited standard support on August 11, 2026, and starting June 1, 2027, Adobe will suspend traffic to Commerce on Cloud environments running unsupported versions. The companies doing a Magento to [Shopify migration](/migrations) are not leaving because they found a more flexible platform. They are leaving because maintaining Magento's flexibility has become more expensive than the flexibility is worth. Here is what B2B on Magento actually looks like today: your last PHP upgrade broke three custom modules and required two weeks of developer time to remediate. Every Adobe security patch release requires your team to deploy it and test the full site. Your ERP integration is a custom Magento module that nobody on your current development team fully understands because the original developer left. Your B2B buyers use a Magento B2B configuration that works but requires developer involvement every time a new customer group needs a different catalog. Your Magento hosting bill is $1,500 to $3,000 per month for an environment complex enough to run your custom build. The platform you built for control is now controlling you. **The maintenance trap:** Every Magento upgrade is a risk assessment for your custom modules. Every security patch is a testing cycle your team owns. Every ERP integration survives on institutional knowledge. Shopify Plus is a platform your team configures. Magento is a platform your team maintains. > The whole team at Uncap has consistently gone above and beyond for us. Initially they helped us revamp and maintain our Magento store. Once we decided to drop Magento and transition to Shopify, Uncap was at the top of our list. If you're looking to migrate platforms or design, I highly recommend giving Uncap a chance. > >, Pawstruck ## The Real Cost of Running B2B Wholesale on Magento **The real cost of running B2B wholesale on Magento** Between licensing, extensions, developers, and maintenance, Magento becomes a costly burden, year after year. ### Cost comparison, $80K to $150K / year vs $2,300 / month Typical total cost of ownership for mid-market B2B operations on Adobe Commerce, versus Shopify Plus. - Adobe Commerce hosting: $22K to $80K / year - Hosting infrastructure: $30K to $60K / year - Extension retainer: $5K to $40K / year - Developer retainer: $20K to $60K / year - Security & compliance: $8K to $20K / year ### Hidden cost 01, Your developer owns your business operations Every change requires Magento knowledge, schema, deployment, custom modules. - New customer groups = dev tickets - Pricing updates = dev deploys - Checkout workflow changes = full sprint - Every regression goes to the back of the queue ### Hidden cost 02, ERP integration drives business as a hostage Custom plugins owned by Magento and ERP devs. - ERP updates break middleware - Mid-month support hours bid - 5-10 hours of dev time, dozens of patches ### Hidden cost 03, Your B2B buyers experience the debt Old UI, slow page loads, missing features, these become risk factors. - Dated UX and slow storefronts - Redesigns require dev approvals - More friction leads to fewer self-service orders - Buyers vote with their feet ### Hidden cost 04, Your next upgrade is unknown territory Every Magento upgrade means a rebuild. - Custom themes break compatibility - Custom modules require rewrites - Migration window keeps closing - The longer you wait, the harder it gets [Adobe Commerce licensing](https://business.adobe.com/products/magento/magento-commerce.html) alone costs $22,000 to $125,000 per year depending on your gross sales volume. Add your hosting infrastructure, your developer retainer, your extension stack, and your security and upgrade maintenance, and the total cost of ownership for a mid-market Magento B2B operation typically runs $80,000 to $150,000 per year. Shopify Plus starts at $2,300 per month on a 3-year term, with native B2B capabilities that eliminate most of the extension stack that drives Magento costs. The comparison is stark. But the licensing gap is not the most expensive part. Your developer owns your business operations. In a standard Magento B2B deployment, almost every meaningful change to your [commerce](/commerce) operation runs through a developer: adding a new customer group, adjusting a pricing rule, modifying the checkout workflow, updating a custom B2B field. On Shopify Plus, these are configuration changes. On Magento, they are development tickets with a queue and a timeline. Your ERP integration breaks on a schedule. Magento ERP integrations, whether connecting NetSuite, SAP, or Microsoft Dynamics, are custom-built for a specific Magento version. When Magento updates, your integration may break. When your ERP updates, your Magento module may need to be rebuilt. Every Magento upgrade is a risk assessment for your ERP connection. Manufacturers who have been on Magento for five or more years have rebuilt the same ERP integration two or three times. Your B2B buyers experience the technical debt. Magento's B2B functionality covers the basics: company accounts, quote requests, requisition lists. But the buyer-facing experience is often dated because frontend work on Magento is expensive. Redesigning a B2B buyer portal on Magento requires a development engagement. On Shopify Plus, it requires a theme update. Your next upgrade is already overdue. Every month your team defers a Magento upgrade to avoid breaking custom modules is another month of security exposure. The migration window closes incrementally. The longer your Magento environment runs without major updates, the more complex the eventual migration becomes. > When we decided to move from Magento to Shopify for our e-commerce site, we really wanted to find the right consultant who could navigate both worlds for us because we didn't want any downtime during the transition. His knowledge of both platforms turned out to be very valuable, and the conversion went very well. > >, ShopRaby ## Magento vs Shopify Plus: What Changes for B2B Wholesale Operations Shopify Plus stops the maintenance spiral. There are no PHP version dependencies. No custom module compatibility risks. No self-managed hosting infrastructure. No security patch cycle your team owns. Shopify handles platform maintenance, security, and infrastructure. Your team focuses on your business instead of your platform. Shopify runs B2B natively. Company accounts, customer-specific pricing, payment terms, quantity rules, private catalogs, gated storefronts, and purchase order support are native Shopify B2B features, not custom modules. Shopify B2B is available on the Basic, Grow, Advanced, and Plus plans, and Shopify Plus adds unlimited B2B market catalogs, direct company catalogs, deposits, partial payments, and payment requests per fulfillment. The [wholesale](https://www.uncap.com/solutions/wholesale) workflows your Magento build required developer time to configure and maintain are available out of the box. Your NetSuite, SAP, or Microsoft Dynamics ERP connects to Shopify Plus in real time. Uncap builds the integration as part of the migration. Orders placed in Shopify appear in your ERP immediately. Pricing and inventory changes in your ERP appear in Shopify within minutes. The custom Magento module that was your ERP connection is replaced with a clean, maintained integration that does not break when either platform updates. Migration apps and generic agencies treat a Magento to Shopify migration as a data export and import project. For a B2B wholesale operation, that is the wrong frame. Uncap audits every custom module in your Magento environment, maps every ERP workflow, documents every B2B pricing rule and customer group structure, and designs a Shopify Plus architecture that replicates your current capabilities and eliminates their maintenance cost. Then we build it. We know specifically which Magento custom module patterns create the most migration complexity and we build remediation into the project plan before work begins. Once your B2B operation is live on Shopify Plus, Uncap Products cover what comes next. [Uncap Quotes](https://www.uncap.com/products/quotes) handles the full configure, price, quote (CPQ) workflow inside the Shopify admin, with no standalone CPQ platform to bolt on. [Uncap Portal](https://www.uncap.com/products/portal) gives your B2B buyers a private, account-based ordering portal tied to Shopify, where they manage their own team, addresses, reorders, and history. > We had a complex transition from an old ecommerce platform to Shopify Plus. Denis and the team provided an excellent initial design based on our specifications, and were extremely responsive on design requests throughout the process. All in all an excellent experience, would highly recommend. > >, Crowd Control Warehouse Owner ## What We Build During Your Magento to Shopify Plus Migration ![](https://www.uncap.com/media/image/2026/E_Z01RjxYqybOTXr.jpg) ### B2B Storefront Architecture Your Shopify Plus store is designed for wholesale operations: company accounts, customer-specific pricing, private catalogs, payment terms, purchase order support, and bulk ordering. Every B2B workflow your custom Magento build handled through extensions and custom code runs natively in Shopify Plus without a developer. ### ERP Integration with Real-Time Sync We build a real-time, bidirectional integration between Shopify Plus and your ERP, including NetSuite, SAP, and Microsoft Dynamics. The custom Magento ERP module your team has been maintaining is replaced by a clean, stable integration that survives platform updates on both sides. ### Customer Pricing and B2B Account Migration Every customer group, pricing rule, volume discount, contract price, and net payment term from your Magento B2B configuration is mapped and rebuilt in Shopify Plus. Your buyers authenticate on launch day and find their pricing, their catalog, and their order history intact. ### Full Data Migration with URL Mapping and SEO Preservation Every product, every customer record, every order, and every URL migrates from Magento to Shopify Plus with complete integrity. 301 redirects are implemented across your full URL structure before go-live, and we verify them after launch, because a proper redirect strategy is how your rankings are protected. Customer passwords are the exception: Shopify's Help Center explains that because passwords are encrypted outside of Shopify, they can't be migrated from another online store using a CSV, so imported customers are invited to create new passwords. > I hired Denis at Uncap to migrate my Magento store to Shopify and I can't say enough how easy he made the process. He is knowledgeable about both systems so I had no reservations about hiring Uncap. I am beyond pleased with their work and highly recommend them. > >, The Fabric Fairy ### Custom Module Replacement We audit every custom Magento extension and module in your environment and design Shopify Plus equivalents: native features, Shopify apps, or custom Shopify app builds where required. The custom code your team has been maintaining is replaced with a maintainable, upgrade-safe alternative. ### Go-Live Without Revenue Disruption Both environments run in parallel until your Shopify Plus store is fully validated. Your Magento store continues taking B2B orders through the entire migration. Your cutover is a coordinated event your team controls, not a hard-switch that puts revenue at risk. > Uncap was able to help us migrate our legacy Magento site to Shopify in approx 3 months. The process was effortless and service is excellent. Highly recommend! > >, Love & Promise Jewelers Founder ## Why B2B Manufacturers Choose Uncap for Their Magento to Shopify Migration Uncap is a Shopify Platinum Partner, on Shopify since 2013, with 380+ storefronts launched on Shopify across manufacturing, distribution, and wholesale. Magento and Adobe Commerce migrations with full [ERP integration](https://www.uncap.com/integrations) continuity are a core capability, not an occasional service. Clients typically eliminate a significant share of technology overhead within the first year, driven primarily by the removal of Adobe Commerce licensing and Magento's developer-dependency model. The return typically comes from three sources: eliminated Adobe Commerce licensing, removed developer dependency for configuration changes, and reduced ERP integration maintenance overhead. We have seen every Magento B2B configuration that exists. We know what Magento's requisition lists, quote workflows, company account hierarchies, and custom pricing modules look like at scale. We know exactly which ones create migration complexity and we plan for them before the project starts. > Had a fantastic experience with Denis and the Uncap Team. He helped design my company's new site and migrate from Magento to Shopify. We're very happy with the result. Our site looks great, works well, and is exactly what we had in mind. > >, Kalorik Marketing & Brand Manager ## Magento Migration Guides, One Question Each Each guide below answers one question in depth. This page stays the overview of the full migration. - The B2B migration checklist: six phases, from ERP field mapping to pilot-account validation. - What a Magento to Shopify migration costs: the four workstreams that set the price. - Mapping Magento B2B shared catalogs and customer groups to Shopify B2B: the order of work and the pricing QA. - ERP integration during a Magento migration: NetSuite, SAP, and Dynamics, and how the cutover works. - Replacing Magento extensions on Shopify: how each extension category maps to a native feature, an app, or a build. - Magento to Shopify SEO and 301 redirects: URL inventory, pattern mapping, and recrawl monitoring. - Zero-downtime parallel go-live: two environments, delta syncs, and rollback. - Magento end of life dates: Adobe's support windows and the June 2027 Cloud policy. - Magento vs Shopify Plus B2B features: company accounts, custom pricing, quoting, and PO support. - Magento vs Shopify Plus 3-year total cost of ownership: the cost lines side by side. - Headless and PWA after Magento: PWA Studio vs Hydrogen and Oxygen. - Magento vs Shopify Plus for B2B: the full platform comparison. ## Ready to move off Magento? Moving from Magento to Shopify Plus is one of the higher-stakes decisions a commerce operator makes. The platform you land on affects your total cost, your team's time, and your ability to grow for the next several years. We have done this migration enough times to know what the plan needs to cover and where the risks sit. If you are ready to scope your migration, or if you want to understand what it would take for your specific Magento environment, talk to our team. We will give you a real assessment, not a sales pitch. ## Frequently asked questions ### How long does a Magento to Shopify Plus migration take? A Magento to Shopify migration typically takes 10 to 16 weeks. Timeline depends on catalog size, B2B complexity, integration scope, and how much custom logic needs to be rebuilt. Migrations with complex ERP integrations, large catalogs, or significant custom pricing logic run longer. Across Uncap's Shopify migrations, the median cutover is about 14 weeks. We scope this in discovery before any work begins. ### Can customer passwords be migrated from Magento to Shopify? No. Shopify's Help Center explains that because passwords are encrypted outside of Shopify, you can't migrate customer passwords from another online store using a CSV, and that after you import customers you need to invite them to create new passwords. If you turn on sign-in links for Shopify customer accounts, buyers sign in with a one-time 6-digit verification code sent to their email, and a password isn't required. We prepare a communication plan and an invite flow that minimizes friction. Most B2B operators send a pre-launch email to their account base with instructions. Timing this communication correctly is part of our go-live planning. ### What happens to my Magento custom modules? Custom modules built for Magento do not transfer to Shopify. We audit each module in discovery to understand what it does and whether a Shopify app, a Shopify Plus feature, or an Uncap product covers the same need. In most cases, the core functionality is available natively or through a maintained app. Where it is not, we scope a custom solution. ### Will my SEO rankings survive the migration? Your rankings can be protected with a proper redirect strategy. Every URL that has built search authority needs a 301 redirect to its Shopify equivalent. We map this before launch and verify it after. Domains, canonical tags, and structured data also carry over with the right setup. What we cannot guarantee is that rankings stay exactly where they are during the transition period. Search engines need time to recrawl and reindex. A clean migration with proper redirects minimizes that window. ### Do you migrate order history? Yes. Order history is part of the standard migration scope. Historical orders appear in Shopify as imported orders. They are visible in the admin and tied to customer accounts. They do not count toward Shopify's plan limits. ### What if we have an ERP connected to Magento? ERP integrations need to be rebuilt for Shopify's API layer. We scope this in discovery and build it in parallel with the migration so the integration is ready and tested before go-live. Uncap Connect, our Shopify-to-ERP integration app, keeps your ERP as the system of record and Shopify in real-time, two-way sync. For your specific ERP, the Uncap team confirms fit directly, and where Connect is not the right fit, we build direct or through the integration approach that fits your stack. ### How much does a Magento to Shopify migration cost? It depends on your scope, and every Uncap build is fixed scope and quoted after a scoping call, so the number reflects your catalog, integrations, and timeline. Many projects start with Uncap Blueprint, a $7,500 fixed-price plan delivered in four weeks and credited toward implementation. If your ERP connects through Uncap Connect, setup starts at $8,000 and it runs $390 a month. Shopify Plus itself starts at $2,300 USD a month on a 3-year term, or $2,500 USD a month on a 1-year term. ### Is Magento end of life? Magento 1 is: its support ended in June 2020. Adobe Commerce versions get a three-year standard support window from release, so each version line reaches end of support on its own date. Version 2.4.6 ended standard support on August 11, 2026, with extended support to August 31, 2027, and 2.4.7 has standard support until May 31, 2027. Starting June 1, 2027, Adobe will no longer maintain Cloud environments running unsupported Commerce versions, which includes suspending traffic to them. ### Should we move from Adobe Commerce to Shopify or Shopify Plus? It depends on the B2B features your operation needs. Shopify B2B is available on the Basic, Grow, Advanced, and Plus plans, but on the Basic, Grow, and Advanced plans you can assign up to 3 active catalogs across your B2B markets. Shopify Plus adds unlimited B2B market catalogs, direct company catalogs, deposits, partial payments, and payment requests per fulfillment. We map every Magento customer group and pricing rule before the build, which shows which plan your catalog structure needs.