A merchant is planning to migrate from a WordPress website and BigCommerce store to Shopify after 10 years, seeking to consolidate platforms and reduce costs. They need to recreate 5 pages currently built with Elementor and want affordable page builder alternatives.
Recommended Page Builders:
Popular paid options: Shogun, PageFly, GemPages
Budget-friendly alternatives: EComposer (recommended by former Elementor user), Beae, Folds (newly released, 100% free)
Free approach: Shopify’s built-in Online Store 2.0 editor and theme customization tools
Some apps offer free plans or limited free pages
Migration Considerations:
The store has ~200 products, 53k orders, and 18k customers to migrate
Matrixify receives positive feedback for handling large data migrations efficiently, though it has limitations with multi-store and multi-language setups
Planning to use LitExtension with custom tools for gift certificates (Shopify doesn’t support gift certificate migration unless on Shopify Plus)
Most existing apps (Klaviyo, ShipperHQ, Shipstation, QuickBooks) are available on Shopify
Migration motivation: BigCommerce uptime issues and a two-month payment checkout bug, plus interest in Shop Pay features.
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We currently have a website with WordPress and an e-commerce store with BigCommerce, but I’m considering moving it all to Shopify. Don’t ask, it was a requirement at the time and it’s just been a big task that we’ve put off for too many years. As you can imagine I have many questions!
Our website has about 5 pages that don’t appear on our ecommerce site. These were built with Elementor on wordpress. I know Elementor is a WordPress page builder. Is it possible to build aesthetically pleasing pages on Shopify with a page builder app? If so, what apps do you recommend? I don’t really want to pay $20/month for these apps as the pages aren’t going to change much at all once created. I’m trying to reduce costs by combining these sites, not add to the monthly cost.
Most of the apps we use on our BC site are available as apps in Shopify, so I think that should be relatively straightforward to setup (Klaviyo, ShipperHQ, Shipstation) We also sync with Quickbooks online and I’m told there’s an app for that too.
We have about 10 years of orders, customers, gift certificates etc. Have you used Matrixify, if so do you have feedback?
My team has migrated numerous online stores from one platform to another - both using extensions for migration as well as migrating with custom scripts and native platform functionality.
My team has worked with Matrixify. This app provides a great set of tools for the migration of data from other platforms to Shopify. With this app, you can export and import important data, such as products, customers, orders, pages, blog posts, discounts, and all the other valuable content you undoubtedly have.
Its main advantages are:
reasonable import time
convenient data modification and deletion
detailed instructions and step-by-step guides are available
suitable for export products and processing of loads of other data, etc.
Despite its advantages, this app has some limitations that you should know about. The app can’t cope with multi-store data and won’t correctly process the data from multi-language stores.
The migration process can imply more challenges and issues. Sometimes unexpected errors may appear, which are very difficult to anticipate before they happen. But everything depends on the size of the store and its complexity, the types of products, and the experience of the e-commerce developers engaged in the store migration process.
So if you need any consultation or assistance, don’t hesitate to ask.
Hi there, @DeeLT ! Thanks for taking the time to reach out to the Shopify Community today with your questions around your migration to Shopify! My name is Imogen. It’s good to meet you!
Congrats on making such a big move! I wanted to jump in here because I noticed your question around ‘page builder apps’. The Page Building app that I’m most familiar with is Shogun, but I saw your comment about trying to reduce additionally monthly costs, so I won’t make this suggestion. Instead, I’ll suggest that you take a few moments to check out this page in our Shopify App Store. This page has several of the most popular and positively rated page building apps available in our Store, and there are plenty of great options to choose from! Some examples you can consider are PageFly, GemPages, and Beae! These are three fantastic options you should take some time exploring to see if you can find one worth giving a go for your own page building needs!
We have been using BigCommerce for over a decade and while in the process to migrating to woocommerce realized it wasnt a good fit and are now pivoting to shopify. We are currently on BigCommerce V2. Did you migrate a large amount of products, orders and customer info? We are currently looking at all the migrating options and trying to determine which is the best fit
We have less than 200 products, but we have about 53k orders and 18k customers. We are probably going to use litextension with a custom tool for gift certificates as Shopify doesn’t allow you to migrate them unless you are on Shopify Plus
a bit off-topic question, but if you’d be so kind to answer, why are you migrating from BigCommerce to Shopify?
I am just starting out and have started worrying a bit about Shopify after reading here on the Community about the SEO/urls problem, so started researching. Many people recommend BigCommerce instead of Shopify. I’ve been reading quite a lot, but I’d love to hear personal opinion…
We’ve used Bigcommerce for about 10 years, so it’s going to be a big job moving all the data over. We use Klaviyo, ShipperHQ, Smile, and all three have features that are unavailable in Shopify but not in BC. BC has had some issues with uptime in the last couple of years—more than we’ve ever had before that. I had a payment issue last year where if someone attempted to use a card either saved in their browser or Google Pay the checkout button was greyed out until they manually retyped some of the numbers again. It took them more than two months to fix that!
I also like Shop Pay, although the CC rates are substantially higher than we are paying with Square.
Shopify Page Builders: Yes, you can build aesthetically pleasing pages on Shopify using page builder apps. Some popular options include Shogun and PageFly. However, these often come with a monthly fee. For a more cost-effective solution, you might consider using Shopify’s built-in theme customization tools, which can be quite flexible.
Matrixify Feedback: Matrixify (formerly Excelify) is a powerful tool for importing and exporting data in Shopify. It’s well-regarded for handling large data migrations, like orders and customer data, efficiently. Users generally find it reliable and user-friendly for complex data tasks.
Yes, it’s totally possible to build great-looking pages in Shopify using page builder apps. Tools like PageFly, Shogun, and GemPages give you drag-and-drop control and way more design freedom than the default editor. For stores that also need to pull in dynamic data or keep things synced between different platforms, pairing a builder with something like Skyvia in the background can help manage the flow of content or product info without manual updates.
If you use Elementor then I recommend EComposer as I moved from Wordpress to Shopify looking for same experience too. Used for 1 year and this page builder is cheapest among but still make sure high quality as of its many features support. Hope this help.
Yes, there are ways to make nice pages on Shopify with free or cheap resources. Use the built-in Online Store 2.0 editor, or a free theme with flexible sections. For one-time page building, PageFly and EComposer provide free plans. Matrixify is also great for bringing orders and customers efficiently.
