Migrate Platforms
Outgrown your platform? Move without the mess
We migrate websites and ecommerce stores to the right platform, cleanly and carefully. No lost content, no broken SEO, no weeks of downtime. Just a better foundation for what comes next.
Your current platform
You built on whatever made sense at the time. Now it’s in the way. You need features it can’t support, performance it can’t deliver, or flexibility it was never designed to offer. Every workaround makes it worse. You know you need to move, but the thought of migrating everything without breaking things keeps you putting it off.
Migration Solutions
Migration paths we handle
DIY builders to WordPress
Squarespace, Wix, GoDaddy, and similar. You’ve hit the limits of what a drag-and-drop builder can do. We move you to WordPress with a properly designed, properly built site that gives you room to grow.
Legacy WordPress to modern WordPress
Your WordPress site is years old, running outdated themes and plugins, slow, and increasingly difficult to maintain. We rebuild on a modern, clean foundation without losing what’s already working.
Magento to WooCommerce or Shopify
Magento served its purpose but the cost and complexity have become unsustainable. We migrate your catalogue, customers, and order history to a platform that’s easier to manage and cheaper to run.
Shopify to WooCommerce
You need more control, more customisation, or lower transaction costs than Shopify allows. We move everything across with your data, your SEO, and your integrations intact.
WooCommerce to Shopify
Your WooCommerce setup has become a maintenance headache and you want the simplicity of Shopify. We handle the migration cleanly so you can focus on selling.
Custom or bespoke platforms to WordPress or Shopify
Stuck on a platform built by a developer who’s no longer around, or locked into something proprietary. We get you onto a platform you can actually manage and find support for.
What makes a migration go wrong
The things most people don’t think about until it’s too late
SEO disappears overnight
URLs change, redirects get missed, metadata doesn’t carry over. A bad migration can wipe out years of search rankings in a day. We map every URL, set up proper 301 redirects, and monitor rankings after launch to catch anything that slips.
Data gets lost or mangled
Products, customers, order history, blog posts, images, form submissions. All of it needs to move across accurately. We audit everything before the migration starts and verify it all after.
The new site doesn’t actually work better
Moving platforms doesn’t automatically fix your problems. If the new build isn’t designed properly, you’ve just moved the mess to a different address. We treat every migration as a rebuild opportunity, not just a copy and paste.
Integrations break
Payment gateways, CRMs, booking systems, email platforms, shipping providers. Everything that connects to your site needs reconnecting and testing on the new platform. We map every integration before we start so nothing gets forgotten.
How We Do It
A careful process, not a rushed deadline
Fixed scope and timeline
Clearly defined deliverables, realistic estimates, and predictable costs without scope creep or surprise fees
Migrations with minimal disruption — hosting transitions, platform upgrades, or rebuilds executed without meaningful downtime or lost revenue
Technical debt remediation
Systematic cleanup of plugin bloat, security vulnerabilities, performance bottlenecks, and architectural problems accumulated over years
Compliance-aware
Execution for regulated brands, migrations and rebuilds that maintain GPhC, MHRA, or platform policy compliance throughout the transition
Knowledge transfer and handover
Clear documentation, access credentials, and technical context so you (or your next partner) can maintain what we’ve built.
PROCESS
How It Works
Audit & Plan
We document everything on your current site: content, data, integrations, SEO structure, and functionality. We agree exactly what’s moving, what’s being improved, and what’s being left behind on purpose.
Fixed scope and commercial agreement
Based on the assessment, we define the project scope: specific deliverables, timeline, dependencies, and fixed cost. No hourly billing, no open-ended estimates. You know what you’re getting and what it costs before work starts.
Execution with minimal disruption
Migrations, rebuilds, and stabilisation work are executed systematically: staging environments for testing, scheduled deployment windows to minimise downtime, rollback plans if something goes wrong. For live stores processing revenue, disruption is kept to an absolute minimum.
Testing, QA and go-live
Every project is tested before deployment: performance validation, checkout flow verification, compliance review for regulated products, and load testing if traffic volume warrants it. Nothing goes live until it’s confirmed working correctly.
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Handover and optional retainer transition
At project completion, you receive full documentation, credentials, and technical context. If you’re managing internally or with another partner, we hand over cleanly. If you want ongoing support, development, or optimisation, we can transition to a retainer without rebuilding the working relationship from scratch.
Examples
Common Sprint Project Types
Hosting migration
Move from shared hosting, poorly managed VPS, or underperforming managed WordPress hosting to infrastructure that supports your revenue level and growth plans. Includes migration execution, DNS transition, performance validation, and post-migration monitoring.
WooCommerce rebuild
Rebuild stores that have accumulated too much technical debt to fix incrementally — bloated plugin stacks, poor architecture, security vulnerabilities, or code that’s become unmaintainable. Delivered as a clean, conversion-focused store on stable foundations.
Technical debt cleanup
Systematic remediation of accumulated problems: plugin rationalisation, security hardening, performance optimisation, Core Web Vitals improvements, and code refactoring. Stops short of full rebuild but addresses the issues preventing reliable operation.
Pre-scale stabilisation
Prepare stores for significant traffic increases from paid media campaigns, product launches, or seasonal peaks. Includes infrastructure capacity planning, performance optimisation, checkout flow testing, and monitoring setup to ensure the site holds under load.
Platform upgrade or version migration
Upgrade outdated WooCommerce installations, migrate to newer PHP versions, or transition from legacy hosting environments to modern infrastructure. Includes compatibility testing, plugin updates, and post-migration validation.
Emergency stabilisation
Rescue projects for stores experiencing active problems: site outages, security breaches, catastrophic performance degradation, or critical functionality failures. Rapid response to contain damage, restore operations, and implement immediate fixes before longer-term remediation.
Evidence
Our impact on high performing sites
CBD e-commerce
Hosting migration and stabilisation
A CBD brand was operating on VPS hosting that degraded under traffic. Previous agencies had attempted fixes but the underlying infrastructure couldn’t support the revenue volume.
We scoped a migration to managed hosting, executed the transition with zero downtime, and stabilised performance. The brand subsequently moved to a development and CRO retainer. Now processes approximately £400k/month on infrastructure that holds consistently.
Online pharmacy
Compliance-focused rebuild
An online pharmacy needed their WooCommerce store rebuilt to support prescription flows under GPhC compliance requirements. The existing store had been built by a generalist agency without understanding regulatory constraints.
We scoped the rebuild as a sprint: compliant architecture, prescription verification integration, and age-gated flows. Delivered on time and on budget. The pharmacy moved to a retainer for ongoing development and hosting management.
Supplement brand
Technical debt cleanup
A performance nutrition brand had accumulated significant technical debt: conflicting plugins, poor performance, security vulnerabilities. They needed cleanup before scaling paid media but weren’t ready to commit to a retainer.
We scoped a 6-week sprint to rationalise plugins, harden security, and improve Core Web Vitals. Post-sprint, the brand ran paid media successfully for 12 months before returning for a retainer engagement as they continued scaling.
After the migration
Every migration includes a support period after launch to catch and fix anything that comes up.
Beyond that, we offer ongoing management plans if you want us to keep looking after hosting, security, updates, and performance on your new platform. It’s not required, but most clients find it makes sense once they’ve seen how we work.
Frequently Asked Questions
What you need to know before we start working together.
We build the new site on a staging environment while your current site stays live and untouched. The actual switchover is planned carefully and typically involves minimal downtime, usually just the time it takes for DNS to propagate, which is a few hours at most. For ecommerce sites, we time the cutover to minimise impact on orders. Not if it’s done properly. We map every existing URL, set up 301 redirects, transfer all metadata, and monitor rankings after launch. Some temporary fluctuation is normal while Google reindexes, but a well-executed migration should protect your rankings and often improves them once the new site’s technical foundations are in place. That’s often why people need to migrate in the first place. We treat every migration as an opportunity to clean up and improve, not just replicate problems on a new platform. Outdated content, broken features, and poor site structure all get addressed as part of the process. Everything moves across. Pages, blog posts, images, downloads, and any other content on your current site. We audit it all before the migration starts and verify it after. If some content isn’t worth keeping, we’ll flag that and agree what to archive rather than carrying dead weight to the new platform. We map every integration before we start: email marketing platforms, CRMs, booking systems, payment gateways, analytics, and anything else connected to your site. Each one is reconnected and tested on the new platform before go-live. Nothing gets forgotten because we document everything upfront. Every migration includes a support period after launch to catch and fix anything that surfaces. Beyond that, we offer ongoing managed website plans if you want us to continue looking after hosting, security, updates, and improvements. It’s optional, but most clients find the transition is smoother when the team that built the site is also maintaining it. It depends on what’s involved. A simple brochure site migration starts from £2,000. Ecommerce migrations with product data, customer accounts, and complex integrations start from £5,000. We scope every migration individually and give you a fixed quote before any work begins. It depends on the complexity of your site. A brochure website moving from Squarespace to WordPress typically takes 3-4 weeks. An ecommerce migration with hundreds of products, customer accounts, and order history usually takes 6-10 weeks. We’ll give you a clear timeline after scoping your specific situation. No. We’ll recommend the right platform based on your needs, goals, and budget. If you’ve already decided, we’ll give you an honest opinion on whether it’s the right choice before we start. We’d rather have that conversation upfront than build something on the wrong foundation. Yes. Products, variants, images, categories, customer accounts, order history, and subscription data where applicable. We verify data integrity after migration and test the full purchase flow before launch. For large catalogues, we use structured migration tools rather than manual transfers to ensure accuracy.
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