Shopify migration brief

For vape, smoke, and high-risk ecommerce

Move off Shopify. Nobody notices.

Crost moves your store onto Crost Commerce — a private deployment dedicated to your store — recreated so closely that customers and staff keep working the way they did.

Same storefrontSame workflowsSame experience
What we migrate

The old store experience, rebuilt on Crost Commerce

Your storefront, rebuilt to match

Design, navigation, product pages, checkout, and content are rebuilt with the same customer-facing experience.

Full-fidelity data migration

Customers, orders, refunds, gift cards, store credit, reviews, and real historical dates move with your store history intact.

A back office they already know

Draft orders, refunds, order editing, fulfillment, inventory, and reporting keep the workflows staff already understand.

Apps and compliance rebuilt

Age verification, loyalty, subscriptions, high-risk payments, and tax logic are rebuilt in-house without monthly app sprawl.

How the cutover works

A staged launch that keeps Shopify live until the move is proven

1

Build in parallel

Your Shopify store keeps trading while we build.

2

Test on staging

Real products, workflows, payments, and emails.

3

Re-sync deltas

New orders and inventory are synced at launch.

4

Flip DNS

When the new store is proven, DNS points at it. Old URLs are kept or redirected one-to-one.

5

Keep fallback

Shopify stays as a safety net until you're sure.

$50,000+Daily sales processed across all Crost stores
10,000Orders per month
A store built around your team

Move without losing rankings, records, or operational rhythm.

Already executed for a high-volume vape retailer while their Shopify store stayed live and untouched.

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Built for control

Less platform risk, fewer third-party dependencies

Your age and shipping rules are built into the platform.

Launch data is synced before traffic moves.

Legacy URLs are mapped so existing links and rankings have somewhere to land.

Questions

What a move off Shopify involves

Which platforms can move?

We move stores from Shopify, WooCommerce, and BigCommerce. Other platforms are scoped case by case. The destination is Crost Commerce, a private deployment dedicated to your store and operated by Crost.

How do you migrate off Shopify without downtime?

The current store stays live while the new one is built and tested. Orders and inventory are re-synced at launch, then DNS moves. Shopify remains a fallback until the new store is proven.

What happens to search rankings?

Every old URL is mapped to its new page so existing links and rankings have somewhere to land. Mapping gives rankings a place to land; it cannot guarantee that every query keeps its position.

How long does it take, and what does it cost?

There is no public price list. The migration audit is where the calendar and scope are set, before any build starts. Crost replies within one business day.

What about high-risk payments and age checks?

Age verification, loyalty, subscriptions, high-risk payments, and tax logic are rebuilt in the merchant's system instead of left as third-party apps.

Read the vape retailer migration