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Guides for launching or moving a store

Fee math, migration checklists, how a finished store is handed over, and when not to switch at all. Every guide lists its sources and the date we checked them.

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  • WooCommerce to Shopify: what moves, what breaks, and what it costs

    Products, customers and past orders can move; reviews and customer passwords cannot; products with more than three options need rework; every old URL with traffic needs a redirect. The biggest cost surprise is usually plugins that become paid Shopify apps.

    Updated · Sources: help.shopify.com (4 pages), checked September 28, 2026

  • Squarespace to Shopify: the carry-over checklist

    Products, customers and past orders can move with some cleanup; page layouts, reviews and customer passwords do not carry over. Plan the domain move separately if Squarespace is also your registrar, and redirect every old store and blog URL.

    Updated · Sources: help.shopify.com (3 pages), checked September 28, 2026

  • Basic vs Grow vs Advanced: the fee math at your sales volume

    On monthly billing, Grow costs less than Basic once online card sales pass about $33,000 a month, and Advanced costs less than Grow past about $147,000. On yearly billing the crossovers come sooner: about $25,000 and $110,000.

    Updated · Source: shopify.com, checked October 5, 2026

  • How a Shopify store built for you is handed over

    Your store is built in a client transfer store, which stays private until launch. When it is ready, you get a transfer email, accept it within seven days, choose your plan and add your own billing. After that the store and the Shopify account are yours.

    Updated · Sources: shopify.dev, shopify.com, help.shopify.com, checked September 27 to October 5, 2026

  • When not to move your store to Shopify

    Moving platforms costs money and carries some search-traffic risk. Stay put, or wait, if your current store already does what you need, if you are heading into your busy season, or if the move would depend on paid apps or custom work to replace something you have today.

    Updated · Sources: help.shopify.com, shopify.com, checked September 28 to October 5, 2026

  • Launch checklist for a retail brand going online (34 items)

    34 checks in the order the work happens: before the build, products, payments and taxes, shipping, pages, search, launch day and the first two weeks.

    Updated · Sources: help.shopify.com (2 pages), checked September 28, 2026

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