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Often, once a store has real volume. WooCommerce software is free and takes no cut of revenue; you pay for hosting, a payment gateway and any premium plugins. Shopify charges a monthly plan ($39 to $399 billed monthly as of October 2026) plus 0.6-2% per sale if you don’t use Shopify Payments. Under $100K a year, Shopify’s simplicity may be worth the premium. Above $200K, WooCommerce often wins on total cost. See the full cost comparison.
When you want to launch quickly without a developer and sell a straightforward catalog through a standard checkout. Shopify also suits stores that run mostly on paid traffic, where SEO control matters less, and owners who don’t want to think about hosting, security or updates. We build on WooCommerce, and we still tell some businesses that Shopify is the right answer for them. See how we approach WooCommerce projects.
Yes, if the new store is built on staging and every URL is redirected. Your Shopify store keeps taking orders during the build, and the switch is a DNS change. Products, variants, images, customers and order history move across, and each Shopify URL gets a 301 redirect to its WooCommerce equivalent. One catch: Shopify doesn’t export passwords, so customers set a new one on first login. See our Shopify to WooCommerce process.
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