Migrations & Replatforming
Move to Shopify from Lightspeed, Wix, SuiteCommerce or a custom build, and carry over customers, subscriptions, apps and rankings without losses.
Common Questions
How do I migrate from Lightspeed Retail (POS) to Shopify without disrupting in-store sales during the transition?
A Lightspeed Retail to Shopify migration keeps stores selling when registers move only after catalog and inventory are live, one store at a time, because the risk is two systems counting the same stock. Shopify's Store Migration app imports only products and customers, not gift cards, loyalty balances or orders, and its Lightspeed path is in early access for certain stores (Shopify Help Center, October 2026).
How do I migrate an active subscription program (Recharge, Skio, or a legacy platform's native subscriptions) during a full platform replatform?
An active subscription program moves as its own project after the storefront cutover, because missed or doubled charges have no rollback. Cards saved at Stripe, Braintree or Authorize.net, and PayPal billing agreements, bill through their processor as a secondary gateway on any plan (Shopify developer docs). Moving card numbers instead needs Shopify Plus or Enterprise (Shopify Help Center, October 2026).
How do multiple simultaneous B2B catalogs (one per customer segment) migrate to Shopify's 3-catalog limit on non-Plus plans, if we exceed that number?
Per-segment business-to-business (B2B) catalogs migrate below Shopify Plus by collapsing into three price structures or fewer, not three segments. Basic, Grow and Advanced allow 3 active catalogs across all B2B markets (Shopify Help Center, October 2026). Volume tiers fit inside a catalog as price breaks, so they never add one. Past three, price an app against Plus.
What's the honest cost-benefit case for migrating from Recharge/Skio to Shopify's native Subscriptions APIs, given the 2026 Recharge-Skio acquisition uncertainty?
Migrating from Recharge or Skio to Shopify Subscriptions trades a per-transaction fee for a portal without cancellation saves (Shopify Help Center, October 2026); the Skio deal alone is no reason to move. Shopify's app is free (Shopify App Store, October 2026), so leaving Recharge saves $99 or $499 monthly plus 1.49% or 1.34% and 19¢ per transaction (Recharge pricing, October 2026). Rebuild product-page purchase options first.
How do we map a legacy platform's subscription-app integration to Recharge, Skio, or Loop Subscriptions, given the 2026 Recharge-Skio acquisition uncertainty?
A legacy subscription integration maps onto Shopify's subscription contract first, not a vendor. Rebuild selling plans (Shopify's subscription options) and the product-page purchase option, then pick the portal app (Shopify developer docs, October 2026). Loop Subscriptions wins that choice because it is independent, at $99 to $399 a month (Shopify App Store). Recharge owns Skio and promised their combined roadmap "in the months ahead" (Recharge's announcement).
How does Lightspeed's built-in vendor/purchase-order management map onto Shopify's native tools or Stocky-successor inventory apps?
Lightspeed's suppliers and purchase orders map onto Shopify's native purchase orders, Stocky's successor since 31 August 2026, by hand (Shopify Help Center, October 2026). No application programming interface (API) writes them, and apps read purchase orders only from API version 2026-10 (shopify.dev, October 2026). So choose the owner first: native, an inventory app or an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.