Catalogue migration
$1,500 – $3,000
Products, categories, customers and redirects into a store you have set up.
- Product and variant mapping
- Customer import and activation
- Redirect map
- Verification report
Squarespace → Shopify
Take a Squarespace store to Shopify with catalogue, customers, content and rankings intact.
Squarespace is a strong site builder and a limited store — checkout, apps, inventory and wholesale features run out as sales grow. We migrate the catalogue, customers, order history and content to Shopify, rebuild the design on a fast theme, and redirect every old URL so rankings and bookmarks keep working.
At a glance
- From
- Squarespace
- Downtime
- None — parallel build, DNS cutover
- Timeline
- 2–6 weeks
- Typical range
- $3,000 – $8,000
Why merchants move
If this sounds familiar.
- Checkout customisation, discounts and shipping rules are limited.
- The app ecosystem is thin compared with Shopify's.
- Inventory, wholesale and multi-location selling are hard to run.
- Design changes and performance fixes hit the limits of the builder.
What moves
Every entity, how it moves, and the risk.
The honest version — including the things that cannot move on any platform, and what we do about them.
| What | How it moves | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Products and variants | Exported from Squarespace Commerce as CSV, variant attributes mapped to Shopify options with metafields for the rest, images re-hosted at full resolution.Products with more than three variant attributes are restructured with you first. | medium |
| Categories and tags | Store categories and tags rebuilt as Shopify collections and tags with matching handles where possible. | low |
| Customers | Customer profiles exported and imported with addresses and marketing consent; passwords cannot move, so accounts are activated by email. | medium |
| Orders | Order history exported and imported as archived orders with line items, totals, dates and status. | medium |
| Discounts and gift cards | Discount codes recreated in Shopify; outstanding gift card balances migrated. | low |
| Reviews | Product reviews exported and imported into a Shopify review app with schema. | low |
| Blog posts and pages | Content taken through Squarespace's WordPress-format export and recreated as Shopify articles and pages with images and metadata; internal links rewritten. | low |
| URLs and redirects | Every shop, product, blog and page URL inventoried and 301-redirected on Shopify; tested before and after the domain switch. | high |
| Subscriptions and member areas | Subscription products recreated in a Shopify subscription app with a re-consent flow; member content rebuilt with a customer-accounts app. Saved payment methods cannot move. | high |
| Forms, scheduling and integrations | Forms rebuilt in the theme or an app; scheduling, email and accounting integrations reconnected to Shopify. | medium |
How it works
Six steps to a clean cutover.
Typical timeline: 2–6 weeks. Your current store keeps selling until the switch.
- 01
Audit and plan
Catalogue, variants, content, integrations, URLs and traffic reviewed; plan and fixed quote delivered.
- 02
Build the Shopify store
Theme, navigation, payments, shipping, taxes and apps configured while Squarespace keeps selling.
- 03
Migrate in test runs
Products, customers, orders and content migrated repeatedly until counts and samples match.
- 04
Redirects and SEO
Full URL map prepared in Shopify; metadata, schema and sitemap ready before launch.
- 05
Cutover
Delta migration of the latest orders and customers, domain moved to Shopify, redirects verified live.
- 06
Monitor and fix
Two weeks of daily checks; 30 days of fixes; Squarespace plan cancelled once rankings settle.
Pricing
Starting prices.
Honest ranges from past migrations. You receive a written plan and a fixed quote before anything moves.
Full store migration
$3,000 – $8,000
Store setup, orders, discounts, reviews, blog and pages, integrations and managed cutover.
- Theme setup and configuration
- Complete order history
- Reviews, discounts and gift cards
- Blog and pages rebuilt
- Cutover and monitoring
Complex migration
$8,000 – $20,000+
Subscriptions, member areas, wholesale, ERP integrations or very large catalogues.
- Subscription re-consent flow
- Member content rebuilt
- ERP, CRM and 3PL integrations
- Phased cutover
The export gets you most of the way
Squarespace exports products, orders and customers as CSV and the blog and pages as a WordPress-format file. Those four exports cover most stores; the audit shows what they miss — variant attributes beyond Shopify’s three options, gallery pages, member content — and how each is handled.
Redirects live on Shopify, not Squarespace
Squarespace’s URL mappings only work while the site is on Squarespace. The full redirect map is built in Shopify’s URL redirects before cutover and tested against every shop, product, blog and page URL, so the domain switch does not cost a ranking.
Design is rebuilt, not copied
Fluid layouts and template styling do not transfer. The store is rebuilt on a fast Shopify theme with your fonts, colours and imagery, section by section, and you review it on a preview URL before anything goes live.
FAQ
Migration questions.
Still unsure? Ask us directly — one human reply, no sales sequence.
Does Squarespace export products and orders?
Yes — products, orders and customer profiles export to CSV from the Commerce panels, and blog posts and pages come through the site export. Anything that does not export cleanly is pulled from the live site and rebuilt, and the audit tells you exactly what falls in that bucket.
Will our blog and pages move too?
Yes. Squarespace's export carries blog posts and standard pages; we recreate them as Shopify articles and pages, re-host the images, rewrite internal links and redirect the old URLs.
What about a domain bought through Squarespace?
It stays registered there — we only point its records at Shopify at cutover. Domains registered elsewhere are handled the same way, and email keeps working because only the website records change.
Will the design look the same?
Squarespace layouts do not transfer, so the design is rebuilt on a fast Shopify theme with your fonts, colours and imagery. It is matched section by section and usually ends up faster and easier to edit.
Other platforms
Also migrating from…
After the move
Services that pick up where the migration ends.
Shopify Development
Storefronts built to convert — theme development, custom sections, apps and integrations on Shopify.
ExploreShopify Redesign
Rebuild your store’s design and structure without losing rankings, reviews or momentum.
ExploreTechnical SEO
Crawl, index, speed and structure fixed at the root — so everything else you do for search actually counts.
ExploreEcommerce CRO
Conversion engineering — find where shoppers drop off, fix it, and measure the difference.
ExploreReady to move to Shopify?
Send us the store URL. You will get a migration plan with risks, timeline and a fixed quote within one business day.