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Shopify Migration in St Davids

Moving a St Davids store onto Shopify from Magento, WooCommerce or a custom platform. The data moves reasonably well with the right tooling; what causes lasting damage is URL structure, because Shopify enforces its own patterns and every unredirected old URL loses whatever ranking it held.

Why this comes up

The problem

The current platform costs too much to maintain or has become unreliable. Shopify is the intended destination and the risk of losing search visibility is the concern.

What you get

What we deliver

  • Every existing URL captured by crawling, not taken from a sitemap alone
  • Redirects built for Shopify's URL structure and tested before cutover
  • Products, variants, customers and orders migrated with counts reconciled
  • Reviews carried across, since they are valuable and hard to recreate
  • App requirements identified early, as some current functionality may need one
  • Post-launch monitoring while problems are still cheap to correct

Want this scoped for your business in St Davids?

Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what shopify migration would actually involve — whether or not you use us.

Book a 30-minute call

Working in St Davids

Wales

St Davids is the smallest city in Britain, with a commercial base of a few dozen tourism and hospitality businesses serving coastal visitors, and we will say plainly that most services on this site are larger than the local market needs.

Simple booking and payment systems for very small hospitality and tourism operators on the Pembrokeshire coast.

Sectors we work with in St Davids

  • Tourism & Heritage
  • Hospitality
  • Agriculture
  • Marine
  • Retail

What we work with

Technologies and platforms

  • Shopify
  • Python
  • Screaming Frog
  • Matrixify

Who we work with

Industries we serve

  • Retail
  • Fashion
  • Homeware
  • Health and beauty
  • Food and drink

Why us

Why St Davids businesses choose Asionis

  • Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
  • No long-term contracts required
  • All team members UK-based
  • Dedicated account manager and development team
  • Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
  • Scalable from startup to enterprise

How we work

  1. Step 1

    Free consultation

    A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.

  2. Step 2

    Proposal

    Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.

  3. Step 3

    Build

    Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.

  4. Step 4

    Launch and support

    We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.

Shopify Migration in St Davids — common questions

Will we lose rankings?
Not if redirects are complete. Shopify uses its own URL structure, so nearly every product and category URL changes — each needs a redirect from the old address. Missing them is the single largest cause of traffic loss in these migrations.
Can everything be migrated?
Most of it, with tooling. Products, customers and orders transfer reliably; reviews and content depend on the source. What rarely transfers is custom functionality, which may need an app or theme work — identifying that early avoids a late surprise.
What about customer accounts?
Accounts transfer but passwords generally do not, since they are stored hashed. Customers need to reset on first login, which should be communicated in advance rather than discovered — otherwise it generates support volume and looks like a fault.
How long does it take?
Weeks rather than days for most stores, with the redirect mapping and testing consuming more of that than the data transfer. Rushing the redirect work to hit a launch date is how migrations lose the traffic they were meant to preserve.
Do you work with businesses across Pembrokeshire?
Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout Wales, including St Davids and the surrounding Pembrokeshire area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
What kind of St Davids businesses do you usually work with?
Simple booking and payment systems for very small hospitality and tourism operators on the Pembrokeshire coast. Beyond that we work across Tourism & Heritage, Hospitality, Agriculture, Marine and Retail.
Do you cover the areas around St Davids?
Yes — we work throughout Wales, including Swansea, Cardiff. St Davids is an urban area of roughly 1,600+, and we take on work across the wider Pembrokeshire region rather than the city boundary alone.

Talk to us about Shopify Migration in St Davids

A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.

  • Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
  • No long-term contracts required
  • All team members UK-based
  • Dedicated account manager and development team
  • Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
  • Scalable from startup to enterprise

Or reach us directly

07707 771599admin@asionis.com

Leicester, United Kingdom