Official Shopify Plus Partner
Dozens of replatforms without a single ranking incident
Specialist in Commerce Cloud migrations
Salesforce Commerce Cloud to Shopify Plus migration with catalogues, customers, orders and rankings intact: clear scope, week-by-week schedule, zero downtime cutover.
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Salesforce Commerce Cloud to Shopify migration. Official Shopify Plus Partner, Amsterdam & New York
Salesforce Commerce Cloud is powerful, but it asks a great deal: a licence that grows with your revenue, scarce developers and slow releases. Shopify Plus delivers the same scale with less ballast. Our migration keeps your data and rankings fully intact.
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Migration process
Replatforming from Commerce Cloud to Shopify in five steps
Commerce Cloud audit & discovery
Audit of sites, locales, catalogues, price books, cartridges, jobs and integrations in your Salesforce Commerce Cloud environment, plus an SEO baseline crawl of every URL. Output: a decision matrix per feature.
Data mapping & redirects
Catalogues, price books, inventory lists, customers and orders mapped to Shopify objects. A 301 redirect per URL and per locale, including .html paths and standard addresses with /on/demandware.store/.
Theme build & Functions
Custom Shopify Plus theme or headless storefront, with Shopify Functions and Checkout UI extensions replacing cartridge logic. Decided per cartridge up front: native, app or custom work.
ERP, PIM, OMS & Salesforce
ERP, PIM, OMS and payments reconnected to Shopify Plus through the GraphQL Admin API or middleware. Salesforce CRM, Marketing Cloud and Service Cloud stay in use where desired.
Phased launch & monitoring
Dry run with test orders, freeze window, final data sync, DNS switch and redirect activation, phased per market where that is sensible. Launch engineer on standby for 48 hours, 90 days of GSC monitoring.
A Commerce Cloud environment consists of sites, catalogues, price books, cartridges and jobs that have grown over years. In a replatforming we translate every part to its Shopify equivalent and leave behind what only costs maintenance.
- 01
SiteGenesis, SFRA and headless
Whether your storefront runs on SiteGenesis, SFRA or a PWA Kit: the data comes from the same source. We export through site exports and the Commerce API and make a deliberate choice on Shopify between a Liquid theme and a headless storefront.
- 02
Catalogues, price books and inventory
Master catalogue and storefront catalogues become products and collections, price books become prices per market or B2B catalogue, inventory lists become Shopify locations. Variants stay complete: Shopify supports up to 2,048 variants per product.
- 03
Every URL and every locale redirected
Commerce Cloud works with its own URL rules, often with .html endings and locale paths. Per URL and per locale we create a 301 redirect, including standard addresses with /on/demandware.store/, and we carry hreflang, meta titles and canonicals across.
- 04
Customers and order history come along
Customer profiles, addresses, customer groups and the complete order history are imported into Shopify, with the link between customer and order intact. For B2B we move accounts to company accounts with their own price lists.
- 05
Cartridges become Functions and apps
We translate custom work in cartridges to Shopify Functions, Checkout UI extensions and apps from the ecosystem. Per cartridge we record up front what becomes native, what becomes an app and what we rebuild.
- 06
Salesforce stays where it is strong
CRM, Marketing Cloud and Service Cloud do not have to move. We connect them to Shopify Plus through the GraphQL Admin API or middleware, so customer data, orders and campaigns keep flowing.
- 07
Cutover per market, without downtime
The new environment is built and tested entirely alongside the existing one. With multiple markets we phase the go-live per country. Freeze window, final data sync and DNS switch in one moment, launch engineer on standby for 48 hours.
migrates Commerce Cloud to Shopify Plus, with customers and rankings intact. Less platform to manage, more room to grow.
From Commerce Cloud audit and data mapping to phased cutover and 90 days of GSC monitoring, with a clear scope and a week-by-week schedule.
Connected to the systems your organisation runs on.
A webshop never stands alone. We connect Shopify to your ERP, finance, marketing, payments and logistics: with our own standard connectors, proven integrations and custom middleware where needed.
From any platform to Shopify: full data transfer, watertight 301 redirects and preserved rankings.
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Enterprise power, without enterprise inertia.
A migration from Salesforce Commerce Cloud to Shopify Plus keeps what your organisation needs, from multiple markets to B2B and ERP integrations, and leaves the heavy release cycles and specialist maintenance behind. Dozens of replatforms without a single ranking incident.
Why companies move from Salesforce Commerce Cloud to Shopify
Salesforce Commerce Cloud started life as Demandware, which Salesforce acquired in 2016. Many environments still carry that history: a storefront on SiteGenesis or SFRA, cartridges that have grown over the years and jobs that exchange data with ERP and PIM every day. The reason to move is rarely a single feature. It is what it takes to maintain the whole.
Three drivers come up time and again. The pricing model: Salesforce prices Commerce Cloud on gross merchandise value (GMV), so the licence grows with your revenue. Development speed: custom work lives in cartridges built with server-side JavaScript and ISML, and reaches production through code versions and replication, which calls for developers who know this exact platform. And the checkout, which in SFRA is part of your storefront code and so runs through your developers.
On both platforms the vendor runs the hosting. The difference lies in what sits on top and belongs to you. On Shopify Plus you extend the checkout with Checkout UI extensions and Shopify Functions, sell internationally through Markets, and install integrations as apps from the Shopify App Store rather than as cartridges in your code.
Salesforce Commerce Cloud vs Shopify Plus: the differences side by side
Both platforms serve brands with multiple markets and large catalogues. The differences lie in how you set them up and who maintains which part.
| Salesforce Commerce Cloud | Shopify | |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting and updates | SaaS run by Salesforce, automatic updates | Hosted on Shopify servers, with a global CDN |
| Security and PCI | PCI compliance as part of the platform | PCI DSS Level 1, by default for every store |
| Checkout | Part of your storefront, customised in code | Shopify checkout, extendable on Plus with extensions and Functions |
| Product structure | Masters, variations, sets and bundles | Up to 2,048 variants and three options, bundles via an app |
| International | Multiple sites and locales, price books per currency | Markets: language, currency, prices and domain per market |
| Apps and integrations | Cartridges from Salesforce and partners, in your code | Apps from the Shopify App Store |
| B2B | Separate B2B Commerce product | Built in, B2B and D2C from one store |
| Order management | Order Management included in the Premium edition | Orders, refunds and fulfilment in the standard admin |
Price books and Shopify price lists look alike: both hold one currency per list and pick the lowest price where lists overlap. The translation depends on how your sites and markets are set up today.
What does a Salesforce Commerce Cloud migration to Shopify cost?
A replatforming to Shopify Plus starts at 35,000 euros with us. Coming from Commerce Cloud, a project generally sits above that, because an SFCC environment rarely consists of a single site. Set the running costs alongside it: Commerce Cloud prices on GMV, while Shopify Plus charges a fixed monthly fee, or a variable platform fee based on revenue for more complex, higher-volume businesses. The comparison that matters is licence plus development plus maintenance over several years. We run that calculation with your own figures.
Where you land follows from factors we measure in the audit:
- 01The number of sites, locales and price books that move to markets and catalogues.
- 02The catalogue: variations, sets, bundles and custom attributes that become metafields.
- 03The number of cartridges that become an app, a Shopify Function or custom work.
- 04Integrations with ERP, PIM, OMS and Salesforce CRM, and the jobs that run between them.
- 05A B2B channel, and the choice between a custom theme and a headless storefront.
Pitfalls in a Salesforce Commerce Cloud migration, and how we handle them
Most of the risk is not in the export itself but in the places where the two data models think differently. What we find is recorded in the decision matrix from the audit, per cartridge, job and URL pattern.
These are the points we cover up front:
- 01URL patterns: alongside SEO URLs, standard addresses with /on/demandware.store/ may still be in circulation. Shopify only redirects from addresses that no longer exist, and Plus allows up to 20 million redirects. We map them all, per locale.
- 02Price books: sale prices often live in a separate price book. We translate those layers into fixed prices and compare-at prices per market.
- 03Variations: Shopify allows up to three options per product. Masters with more variation attributes are split or completed with metafields.
- 04Sets and bundles: a bundle on Shopify needs a bundles app, and a product set usually becomes a collection.
- 05Passwords: they cannot move, because they are encrypted outside Shopify. With new customer accounts a customer signs in with a one-time code by email; with legacy customer accounts we send invitations around launch.
- 06Jobs and tracking: scheduled imports and exports move to middleware or Shopify Flow, and tags and scripts become pixels through customer events.
Frequently asked questions about Salesforce Commerce Cloud to Shopify migration
Salesforce Commerce Cloud is a powerful enterprise platform, but the cost and the dependency are high: a licence that grows with your revenue, scarce specialist developers and long release cycles. Shopify Plus delivers the same scale with a lower maintenance load, a faster time to market and a broad ecosystem of apps and partners.
In almost every case, yes. Multiple markets, languages and currencies run through Shopify Markets, B2B through company accounts and price lists, custom logic through Shopify Functions and the checkout through Checkout UI extensions. Shopify Plus has ten times the API limits of the standard plans, so heavy ERP and PIM integrations have room as well. Where Shopify does not offer something natively, we name it in the audit.
We start in Business Manager and in your code: which sites, locales, price books and cartridges are active, and which jobs exchange data with ERP or PIM. Catalogues, price books, customers and orders come out of the XML exports and the Commerce API, and we convert them into products, markets, B2B catalogues and customer profiles in Shopify. Meanwhile we build the theme or headless storefront alongside your live environment. A dry run with test orders precedes the cutover, which is phased per market where that is sensible.
Commerce Cloud builds SEO URLs from URL rules in Business Manager, per locale, and standard URLs with /on/demandware.store/ can still sit in Google and in backlinks. Shopify uses fixed paths such as /products/ and /collections/, so nearly every URL changes. We combine a crawl, your Search Console data and the URL rules into one list and create a 301 redirect per URL and per locale. Shopify Plus supports up to 20 million redirects. Hreflang, canonicals and meta titles come along, and after launch we follow every market in Search Console for 90 days.
Per cartridge we decide up front: replace with Shopify-native functionality, with an app, or rebuild as a Shopify Function or Checkout UI extension. LINK cartridges for payments, tax and shipping almost always have a Shopify app as their counterpart. What only existed to work around a limitation of the old platform is left behind on purpose.
Yes. Only the commerce layer moves. We connect Salesforce CRM, Marketing Cloud and Service Cloud to Shopify Plus through the GraphQL Admin API or middleware, so customer data, orders and campaigns keep flowing the way your team is used to.
A replatforming to Shopify Plus starts at 35,000 euros with us. A project from Salesforce Commerce Cloud, with multiple sites, locales and ERP integrations, generally sits above that. After the audit you get a tailored quote.
An average migration to Shopify Plus takes 10 to 14 weeks. With Commerce Cloud, the number of sites and locales, the number of cartridges to replace and the jobs behind your ERP and PIM integrations largely decide where you land. An environment with multiple sites, B2B and a lot of custom logic can run to 16 to 20 weeks. You get a week-by-week schedule up front, with a phased go-live per market where that is sensible.
Yes. If your storefront runs on the PWA Kit today, that line can continue with Hydrogen or your own frontend on the Storefront API. In many cases, however, a Liquid theme is faster to build and easier to manage. We advise the route based on your audit.
Yes. Salesforce acquired Demandware in 2016 and continued the platform as Salesforce Commerce Cloud, often shortened to SFCC. That is why the platform's standard URLs still contain /on/demandware.store/. Whether your storefront runs on SiteGenesis, SFRA or the PWA Kit, the migration to Shopify Plus follows the same route; the difference lies in the audit of your storefront code.
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