CCV Shop to Shopify migration: replatforming without SEO loss

CCV Shop, formerly BiedMeer and part of CCV since 2014, takes care of hosting, automatic updates and daily backups for you. So the reason to move is rarely maintenance. It is growth: the point where your webshop needs to do more than the package it runs on allows.

On CCV Shop, features are tied to packages. Basic has room for 50 products and Professional for 7,500. Multilingual stores and API access start at Professional, and the B2B app requires Enterprise. On Shopify, B2B features such as company accounts, volume pricing and payment terms are available from the Basic plan up.

Reach and ecosystem count too. The Shopify App Store lists more than 16,000 apps, and Shopify Markets lets you manage languages, local pricing and domains or subfolders per market from a single store.

Both platforms are hosted. The differences lie in how far you can grow within one system.

For a compact, Dutch-language webshop, CCV Shop is a solid base at a fixed monthly fee. The differences show once you want business customers, several countries or a physical shop running on the same system.

The investment follows from what your CCV Shop does today, not from the number of pages. A premium theme build with data migration and redirects starts at 15,000 euros, custom work at 25,000 euros and a replatforming to Shopify Plus at 35,000 euros. After the audit you get a tailored quote. Where you land within that range depends on these parts:

• 01Catalogue: the number of products and how your attributes are structured. Products with more than three options need restructuring.
• 02Apps: every active app from the CCV Shop App Store, from Multishop to the Quotes app, gets a replacement on Shopify.
• 03Integrations: accounting, wholesalers, fulfilment and marketplaces are reconnected.
• 04B2B: customer prices, customer groups and tiers from the B2B app. Prices per company require Shopify Plus.
• 05Languages: each language domain becomes a market with its own domain or subfolder, redirects included.
• 06Design: a theme in your own brand style instead of an adapted template.

• Shopify PlusWhen Plus pays off for company-level B2B pricing and checkout customisation.

The risk in a migration rarely sits in the build, but in details that only surface after go-live. With CCV Shop, these points need attention:

• 01URLs without a fixed structure. CCV Shop places products, categories and pages, each with its own SEO alias, directly after your domain. Shopify uses /products/, /collections/ and /pages/ with lowercase handles, so nearly every URL changes and gets its own 301 redirect.
• 02Existing redirects and language domains. Redirects from the CCV Shop 301 tool and the URLs on your language domains go into the mapping, so no redirect chains appear.
• 03Attributes. CCV Shop allows unlimited variants, Shopify up to three options and 2,048 variants per product. We restructure complex products before the import.
• 04Passwords. They cannot be migrated, because they are encrypted outside Shopify. With Shopify customer accounts, customers sign in with a one-time code by email; on legacy accounts every customer has to activate their account again.
• 05Tracking. The built-in Google Analytics, Google Ads and Tag Manager connections do not move along. We rebuild them as pixels that also measure in checkout, and test conversions before go-live.
• 06Contract, domain and point of sale. Cancel CCV Shop only once the new shop is live and every redirect works. CCV Shop works with annual contracts: check your own notice period, and move your domain and email first if they run through CCV. If you use CCV SalesPOS with Multishop, that link to your webshop ends.

• Shopify SEOTechnical SEO and collection strategy after the switch.