Renamed categories
Categories become collections with a different handle, so pattern redirects point to pages that do not exist.
Free Shopify migration tool
Map every URL from your current store to its Shopify equivalent before you migrate. You get the redirects; your products, collections and pages still need to be created in Shopify.
How it works
We read robots.txt and every sitemap of your current store, up to 10,000 URLs, and detect the platform.
Each product, category, page and post is converted to its Shopify URL. Add your new store and we match real handles.
Download a CSV in Shopify's redirect import format once your products and pages exist in Shopify. Rows that need a decision are kept apart.
URL patterns
Shopify forces fixed prefixes: /products/, /collections/, /pages/ and /blogs/. These are the conversions the generator applies by platform.
| Platform | Old URL | Shopify URL |
|---|---|---|
| WooCommerce | /product/red-shoe/ | /products/red-shoe |
| WooCommerce | /product-category/shoes/ | /collections/shoes |
| Magento | /red-shoe.html | /products/red-shoe |
| BigCommerce | /red-shoe/ (products sitemap) | /products/red-shoe |
| Squarespace | /shop/p/red-shoe | /products/red-shoe |
| Wix | /product-page/red-shoe | /products/red-shoe |
| Any platform | /blog/launch-day | /blogs/news/launch-day |
Where migrations lose traffic
Categories become collections with a different handle, so pattern redirects point to pages that do not exist.
Magento system URLs and query strings cannot be matched without a product ID map.
Blog posts move to /blogs/news/ without redirects and lose years of backlinks.
Redirects loaded after launch instead of on cutover day, when Google recrawls first.
Questions
Free, no account. The tool maps redirects; it does not move products or pages. Need the whole migration done? Fixed price from $5,000.