Squarespace to Shopify migration
For Squarespace stores moving to Shopify, with products, customers, orders and blog content moved, every URL redirected and your rankings tracked from before launch to 90 days after.
Shopify Partner since 2016. Fixed price, agreed before we start.
The short answer
A Squarespace store usually takes 3 to 6 weeks to move to Shopify. Member areas, subscriptions and digital downloads make it longer, because Squarespace does not export them and each is rebuilt by hand. Every project includes an SEO and conversion baseline before launch and 90 days of monitoring after it.
Why stores leave
Why Squarespace stores move to Shopify
- 01
Squarespace caps a version 7.1 site at 10,000 products and a version 7.0 site at 200, with 250 variants per product.
- 02
Subscriptions, download products and reviews have no export, so they stay behind whenever the store moves.
- 03
Old URLs and blog posts need mapping to new Shopify URLs before the switch, or Google and customers hit dead links.
What moves, and what needs planning
Moves cleanly
- Physical and service products with images, from the CSV export. Variant images and alt text do not export.
- Customers, from the CSV export, with shipping country added by hand
- URL redirects for every page with traffic
Needs planning
- Collections, rebuilt in Shopify after import
- Order history, exported as CSV and imported with a migration app
- Blog posts and pages, from the XML export
- Member areas, rebuilt with a Shopify app
- Scheduling and forms, rebuilt
Doesn't move
- Customer passwords
- Subscriptions. Squarespace cannot move them between sites.
- Download products
- Reviews
- Extension data with no export
How a Squarespace migration runs
Baseline
Before we touch anything, we record your top URLs, rankings, revenue per landing page and checkout conversion rate. The new store gets measured against this.
Migration
Products, customers, orders and content move over. Every URL that gets traffic gets a redirect, and each one is checked before launch.
90-day watch
Every week after launch we compare traffic and conversion with the baseline. If something drops, we find the cause and fix it.
Conversion sprint
Once the new store is stable, we test the pages that make you money. Conversion work is what we've done for DTC brands for a decade.
Questions Squarespace stores ask us
What can I export from Squarespace?
Physical and service products export as a CSV of up to 10,000 products, customers export with name, email, order totals and last addresses, and orders export as CSV with line items and statuses. Download products, subscriptions, reviews, variant images and image alt text do not export.
Does Shopify have an app for Squarespace?
Shopify's Store Migration app does not list Squarespace. Shopify's Squarespace guide recommends CSV files for products and customers and a third-party app such as EZ Importer or Migration Pro for order history.
Will customers need new passwords?
Yes. The Squarespace customer export contains no passwords and Shopify's customer import has no field for them, so every customer sets a new password the first time they log in to the new store.
Working to a deadline?
Tell us your platform and target launch date. You'll get a fixed price and timeline within 2 business days.