Migrating from Wix to Shopify

People often choose Wix because it provides an easy-to-use, all-in-one website builder with drag-and-drop functionality, making it perfect for beginners and small businesses wanting a professional site without any coding. However, many customers eventually switch from Wix as they encounter limitations with its basic CMS, backend, and overall infrastructure.
As their business grows, these restrictions, such as limited inventory management and constrained customisation options, can become major obstacles. Additionally, Wix offers less control over important SEO elements like sitemaps, schema markup, and site performance, which can affect search rankings. Because of these challenges, businesses often move to more scalable and flexible platforms that better support their long-term growth.
This is why
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Superior Inventory & Order Management: Shopify offers superior inventory and order management tools that make it much easier to scale and streamline operations. It allows businesses to efficiently manage large product catalogues, track inventory across multiple locations, and handle order fulfilment, returns, and exchanges with ease. Features like real-time inventory syncing help prevent overselling, while automated low-stock alerts ensure you're always prepared to restock.
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Scalability for Growing Stores: Shopify is highly scalable and trusted by businesses of all sizes - from small startups to global enterprise brands. It offers a vast ecosystem of apps and integrations to support growth at every stage. Selling internationally is made simple with built-in multi-currency features and support for a wide range of payment gateways. Shopify’s robust infrastructure is designed to handle high traffic volumes with ease, keeping your store fast and reliable even during peak periods.
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Efficiency and ease of use: Shopify is purpose-built for e-commerce, offering a streamlined and intuitive experience tailored to online selling. In contrast, Wix is a general website builder with e-commerce features added on, which can feel limiting as your store grows. Shopify also offers mobile-responsive themes and a seamless checkout process across all devices, helping to improve customer experience and conversion rates.
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Better SEO & Marketing Tools: Shopify offers advanced, growth-ready tools and integrations. Built-in blogging, structured data, and fast-loading pages boost UX and search visibility. Seamless links to Google Shopping and Meta make targeted campaigns easier, while Shopify Email and CRM integrations streamline automation. Robust analytics provide insights to optimise performance and increase sales.

Dolcetto Designs Wix Migration
One of our clients, Dolcetto Designs, moved from Wix to Shopify for a platform that’s easier to use and built for long-term growth.
The migration refreshed the site, improved ease of use, and added SEO enhancements; it also enabled seamless integrations, Klaviyo for advanced email marketing plus stronger connections to Google Shopping and Facebook/Meta, driving more effective campaigns.
With greater flexibility for content and marketing, the business now scales efficiently, boosts customer engagement, and delivers a superior user experience.
See how we successfully migrated Dolcetto Designs from Wix to Shopify.

How 30Acres can help
We are a trusted Shopify Plus Partner agency with extensive experience in building high-performing Shopify stores and seamlessly migrating businesses from platforms like Wix.
If you're feeling limited by Wix, there’s never been a better time to switch to Shopify - Australia’s leading e-commerce platform, trusted by growing brands nationwide. Our team ensures a smooth, stress-free migration with zero website downtime and no loss of search visibility, so your business can keep running as usual.
Ready to make the move?
Click the button to the right to learn more about our migration audits and how we can help you transition with confidence.
Our migration audit includes
Data Mapping
- Review your current store’s data (products, customer information, orders, etc.) for a smooth transition into the Shopify platform.
- Identify any complications for migration
Competitor Analysis
Assessing your brand identity and analysing competitor strategies to align your store with market expectations and trends.
Platform Compatability
Evaluating your existing tools, integrations, and functionalities to ensure they are compatible or can be effectively replicated on Shopify.
UX/UI Design
Reviewing your current user experience and interface design to optimise usability and engagement during the migration.
SEO Migration Checklist
Ensuring critical SEO elements (URLs, metadata, redirects) are properly maintained or improved to preserve search engine rankings post-migration.
Report and Recommendations
We present to our audit findings and recommendations for a successful migration to Shopify.
Why Shopify Plus?
Speed
Enterprise ready
Built to scale
Fully hosted and secure
99.99% Uptime
Dedicated merchant success manager
International capabilities
Automation tools
App integration
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