Duplicate current shop to connect to another domain

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

A user wants to duplicate their existing shop and connect it to a different domain while keeping the original store intact.

Proposed Solutions:

  • Export and import core store data including Products, Inventory, Orders, and Customers to the new store
  • Download the active theme and upload it to the new domain
  • Manually recreate theme customizations and any custom code added to the original theme

Key Considerations:

  • The process requires manual theme customization work to match the current store’s appearance
  • Custom code modifications need to be re-applied to the new theme
  • Multiple respondents confirm this is achievable through Shopify’s export/import functionality

The discussion remains open with no indication the original poster has implemented the suggested approach.

Summarized with AI on November 11. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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@LL_shop Hope you are doing well.

It’s an easy process. but you have to customize the theme as per your current store and if any custom code added in the theme then you have to add those manually to the new store theme.

And rather than theme you can easily export and import the below things from your current store:

Products, Customers, Orders, Inventory