WordPress to Shopify Migration · Durham
WordPress to Shopify Migration in Durham
Moving Durham retailers from WooCommerce to Shopify, where customer passwords do not travel. Stored credentials cannot be transferred between platforms, so every returning customer meets a login that no longer works — and how that moment is handled affects repeat revenue more than anything else in the migration.
Why this comes up
The problem
Customers were moved across without warning, their passwords no longer work, and support is fielding the complaints.
What you get
What we deliver
- Customer accounts migrated with a communicated, deliberate reset process
- Order history transferred so service teams can still answer questions about it
- Products migrated with variants, images and inventory intact
- URL structures mapped, since product and category paths differ between platforms
- Redirects implemented for every changed URL before the switch
- Payment, shipping and tax configuration rebuilt and tested against real orders
Want this scoped for your business in Durham?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what wordpress to shopify migration would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Durham
North East
Durham's economy is dominated by its university and cathedral, so the commercial base is small and much of the local demand comes from spinouts and suppliers attached to the institutions rather than from independent industry.
Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones.
Sectors we work with in Durham
- Higher Education
- Tourism & Heritage
- Public Sector
- Retail
- Research
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- Shopify
- WooCommerce
- WordPress
- CSV
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- Retail
- Direct-to-consumer brands
- Fashion and apparel
- Health and beauty
- Food and drink
Why us
Why Durham 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
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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WordPress to Shopify Migration in Durham — common questions
- Why can passwords not be migrated?
- Because they are stored as hashes the new platform cannot use. This is a security property rather than a limitation, but the practical effect is that returning customers must set a new password — so it needs communicating in advance rather than discovered at checkout.
- Does order history come across?
- It can be imported, and it is worth doing. Without it, your support team cannot see what a customer bought last year, returns become difficult to process and any loyalty calculation based on spend starts again from zero.
- How different are the URLs?
- Different enough to matter. Shopify's product and collection paths follow its own structure, so almost every product URL changes — and without redirects, the accumulated search value of those pages is lost at the moment of the switch.
- What is most often forgotten?
- Tax and shipping configuration. It is unglamorous, it does not appear in any content export, and it is usually rebuilt hurriedly at the end — which is why the first live orders after a migration so often carry the wrong shipping cost or the wrong VAT treatment.
- Do you work with businesses across County Durham?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout North East, including Durham and the surrounding County Durham area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Durham businesses do you usually work with?
- Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones. Beyond that we work across Higher Education, Tourism & Heritage, Public Sector, Retail and Research.
- Do you cover the areas around Durham?
- Yes — we work throughout North East, including Newcastle, Sunderland, York. Durham is an urban area of roughly 70,000+, and we take on work across the wider County Durham region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about WordPress to Shopify Migration in Durham
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