Website migration from Wix, Squarespace and Shopify

Migrations from Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, GoDaddy and Weebly for businesses across Halifax and West Yorkshire. The replacement is built and signed off before anything moves, so the switch is a cutover of minutes rather than a day offline.

What makes these migrations different

The hard part is rarely the building. It is getting your own content and your own domain back out of somewhere that would rather you stayed.

Getting content out of a closed platform

Squarespace and Shopify will hand over most of your content. Wix and GoDaddy's builder will not, and that is not an oversight on their part. Where there is no usable export, the content is recovered from the live pages instead, which is slower and is the reason the inventory stage comes first.

Stop renting the site you paid for

On these platforms the subscription is the site. Stop paying and it goes, and the work you put into it goes with it. A hand-built site is a set of files you own, hosted wherever you like, with no plan tier deciding which features you are allowed to have.

Rebuilt before anything moves

Your current site stays up and keeps taking enquiries while the replacement is built, reviewed and signed off on a staging address. The move itself is a DNS change measured in minutes, not a weekend with the site down.

Every URL mapped before the switch

Each of these platforms invents its own URL patterns, and they rarely match what a rebuild would produce. Every existing address is crawled and matched to its new home before launch, so the rankings attached to them have somewhere to land.

How a migration runs

The first two stages are about what you already have and who currently controls it. Skipping either is what turns a clean move into a bad week.

  1. Establish what can be exported and what cannot

    This is the answer that decides the timeline, so it gets established rather than assumed. Shopify and Squarespace give you a usable export. Wix and GoDaddy give you very little, and those sites have to be recovered page by page from what is publicly reachable.

  2. Check who owns the domain

    Platform-registered domains are the usual snag. If yours sits inside the Wix or GoDaddy account you are trying to leave, it needs unlocking, an authorisation code and a transfer, and that can take several days. It runs in parallel with the build rather than being discovered on launch day.

  3. Rebuild in parallel

    Built on Next.js while the current site carries on earning. Content is carried across and tightened rather than retyped, and forms, booking links and any integrations worth keeping are rebuilt natively instead of embedded.

  4. Cut over, then cancel

    DNS switches at a quiet hour. Redirects, forms, email and SSL are checked straight afterwards and the new sitemap goes to Search Console. The old subscription is cancelled only once all of that is verified, never before.

What is included

Priced as a build of the same size, because that is what it is. The recovery and mapping work is part of the job rather than a line added at the end.

  • Content and media recovery, export or crawl
  • Full URL inventory of the existing site
  • 301 redirect map for every URL
  • Domain unlock and transfer handled
  • Rebuild on Next.js
  • Forms and integrations rebuilt natively
  • Staging site for sign-off
  • Post-launch indexing checks

Questions we get asked

The domain is the one worth checking before you do anything else.

Which platforms do you migrate from?
Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, GoDaddy’s builder, Weebly, Webflow, Jimdo and hand-built sites of every vintage. The platform matters less than whether the pages can still be reached: if they can be crawled, they can be carried across. WordPress migrations have their own page, because what people want rid of there is different.
Wix will not let me export my site. Is that a problem?
It is a slower job, not an impossible one. Wix has no meaningful export, so the content is recovered from the live pages: text, images, structure and every URL. It adds time at the start rather than changing the result, and it is worth knowing that this is by design. Being difficult to leave is part of how these platforms keep customers.
My domain is registered through the platform. What happens to it?
It gets transferred to an account in your name, and it is the first thing to start because it is the thing most likely to hold everything else up. You will need to unlock it and get an authorisation code from the current provider. Some release it in an afternoon, others take the best part of a week. Your email is tied to the domain too, so that is planned around rather than left to chance.
I sell through Shopify. Can I move that as well?
Possible, but treat it as a different decision. Moving a shop means products, variants, stock and a working checkout have to move, not just pages, and Shopify’s checkout is genuinely good at what it does. Sometimes the right answer is a custom site with Shopify left handling payments. That is scoped as an eCommerce build rather than a migration, and it is worth a conversation before anything is decided.
How much does a migration cost?
The same as a build of the same size, because the work is the same. Starter sites of one to five pages start at £495 and business sites of five to fifteen pages start at £850, paid 50% upfront and 50% on launch. Sites with no usable export take longer to lift, so the quote reflects that once the platform is known.