{"id":22936,"date":"2026-11-05T10:28:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T08:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consultoriaehero.com\/?p=22936"},"modified":"2026-11-05T12:55:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T10:55:51","slug":"migrating-from-prestashop-to-woocommerce-what-comes-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consultoriaehero.com\/en\/migrating-from-prestashop-to-woocommerce-what-comes-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrating from PrestaShop to WooCommerce: What Comes With You, What You Lose, and How Much It Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Migrating from PrestaShop to WooCommerce<\/strong> means moving your products, customers, and orders to a new store built on WordPress, and making sure Google and your customers find it at the same addresses. A tool handles the first part in a few hours. The second part is what decides whether the migration goes well.<\/p>\n<p>In this guide we explain which data transfers and which doesn&#8217;t, the redirects you can&#8217;t do without, the steps in order, and how much it costs. If you&#8217;d rather stay on PrestaShop and upgrade it, read <a href=\"https:\/\/consultoriaehero.com\/en\/migrating-from-prestashop-1-6-to-8-what-breaks-and-how-to-avoid-it\/\">migrating from PrestaShop 1.6 to 8<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n<nav class=\"w2g-toc\"><strong>On this page<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#por-que\">Why stores switch from PrestaShop to WooCommerce<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#pasa\">What transfers and what doesn&#8217;t<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#urls\">Redirects: what saves your SEO<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#modulos\">PrestaShop modules and their equivalents<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#pasos\">The migration in eight steps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#precio\">How much migrating costs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#errores\">The most expensive mistakes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#faq\">Frequently asked questions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n<h2 id=\"por-que\">Why stores switch from PrestaShop to WooCommerce<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The pending upgrade.<\/strong> Many stores are still on 1.6 or 1.7. Moving to PrestaShop 8 or 9 means rebuilding the theme and modules, and at that point changing platforms becomes an option.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The cost of modules.<\/strong> Every feature is a paid module that has to be renewed and sometimes doesn&#8217;t survive the next version.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Content.<\/strong> WordPress is better for the blog, guides, and landing pages that bring in traffic from Google.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Finding someone to maintain it.<\/strong> There are far more professionals and plugins for WooCommerce.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t always the best idea. A catalog of tens of thousands of SKUs with many combinations, well managed on PrestaShop, may be better off where it is.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"pasa\">What transfers and what doesn&#8217;t<\/h2>\n<div style=\"overflow:auto;max-width:100%\">\n<table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px;min-width:520px\">\n<thead>\n<tr style=\"background:#334155;color:#fff\">\n<th style=\"padding:10px 12px;text-align:left\">Data<\/th>\n<th style=\"padding:10px 12px;text-align:left\">Transfers?<\/th>\n<th style=\"padding:10px 12px;text-align:left\">What to check<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Products, prices, and stock<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Yes<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Prices with and without taxes, and the stock level on the day of the switch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#f8fafc\">\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Combinations<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Yes, as variations<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Attributes, the image for each variation, and SKUs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Categories and images<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Yes<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">The order, category images, and alt text<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#f8fafc\">\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">SEO titles and descriptions<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Yes, with the right tool<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Make sure they end up in the fields of your SEO plugin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Customers and addresses<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Yes<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Newsletter consent and company details<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#f8fafc\">\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Customer passwords<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Not as they are<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">WordPress can&#8217;t validate them; customers are asked to create a new one, or you use a plugin that validates the old one the first time<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Old orders<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Yes<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Make sure they don&#8217;t trigger emails or deduct stock when imported<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#f8fafc\">\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Invoices<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Usually not<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Save the PrestaShop ones as PDFs; the new numbering continues from yours<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Tax rules and carriers<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">No<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">They are set up again in WooCommerce and tested<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#f8fafc\">\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Modules and theme<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">No<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Each one is replaced with a plugin or rebuilt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>To move the data, there are plugins and paid services that connect the two stores, such as FG PrestaShop to WooCommerce or Cart2Cart. They save a lot of work, but they won&#8217;t decide for you what to do with whatever doesn&#8217;t fit.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"urls\">Redirects: What Saves Your SEO<\/h2>\n<p>PrestaShop and WooCommerce don&#8217;t use the same URLs. A product that lives at <code>\/123-camiseta-azul.html<\/code> in PrestaShop moves to <code>\/producto\/camiseta-azul\/<\/code>. If you don&#8217;t tell Google it has moved, the old page returns an error and the new one starts from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you need to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pull the list of all the URLs from the old store: from the sitemap, from Search Console, and from pages with external links.<\/li>\n<li>Set up a <strong>301 redirect<\/strong> from each one to its new equivalent: products, categories, brands, pages, and posts.<\/li>\n<li>Check the entire list after the switch, not just a few URLs.<\/li>\n<li>Submit the new sitemap to Search Console and keep an eye on 404 errors over the following weeks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s normal for Google traffic to dip a little during the first few weeks. What isn&#8217;t normal is for it to drop by half: that is almost always a sign of missing redirects.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"modulos\">PrestaShop Modules and Their Equivalents<\/h2>\n<div style=\"overflow:auto;max-width:100%\">\n<table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px;min-width:420px\">\n<thead>\n<tr style=\"background:#334155;color:#fff\">\n<th style=\"padding:10px 12px;text-align:left\">What it did in PrestaShop<\/th>\n<th style=\"padding:10px 12px;text-align:left\">In WooCommerce<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Bank payment gateway (Redsys)<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Redsys plugin or one from your bank<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#f8fafc\">\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Equivalence surcharge (recargo de equivalencia)<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Tax classes and a plugin that applies it per customer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Brands (manufacturers)<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">WooCommerce Brands or a brands plugin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#f8fafc\">\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Product packs<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">A pack or bundle plugin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">PDF invoices<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">An invoicing plugin or your invoicing software<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#f8fafc\">\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Multiple languages<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">A translation plugin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Advanced search<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">A search plugin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Make a list of your active modules before getting a quote. It&#8217;s what changes the price of a migration the most.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"pasos\">The migration in eight steps<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Inventory.<\/strong> Products, variations, customers, orders, active modules, URLs, and your best sellers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A new store on a copy<\/strong>, hidden from everyone: WordPress, WooCommerce, theme, and plugins.<\/li>\n<li><strong>First import<\/strong> of products, categories, customers, and orders.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Review<\/strong> product by product for the best sellers, and spot checks for the rest.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Taxes, shipping, and payments<\/strong> configured and tested with real purchases.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Redirect map<\/strong> for all the old URLs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Switch day<\/strong>: final import of new orders and customers, domain change, redirects active.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The following two weeks<\/strong>: 404 errors, Search Console, orders, and emails.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Choose a quiet day for step 7. Never the week before Black Friday or in the middle of a campaign.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"precio\">How much does it cost to migrate?<\/h2>\n<div style=\"overflow:auto;max-width:100%\">\n<table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px;min-width:420px\">\n<thead>\n<tr style=\"background:#334155;color:#fff\">\n<th style=\"padding:10px 12px;text-align:left\">Store<\/th>\n<th style=\"padding:10px 12px;text-align:left\">Typical migration price<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Small: up to 500 products, few modules<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">\u20ac800 \u2013 \u20ac2,500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#f8fafc\">\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Medium: thousands of products, variations, multiple languages<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">\u20ac2,500 \u2013 \u20ac6,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">Large or with integrations (ERP, warehouse, marketplaces)<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:9px 12px\">\u20ac6,000 or more<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Market ranges in Spain, VAT not included. This is the price of moving the store. If you also want a new design, add it on top: we explain it in <a href=\"https:\/\/consultoriaehero.com\/en\/how-much-does-an-online-store-cost-in-spain-in-2026\/\">how much an online store costs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ehero-cta-precio\" style=\"border:1px solid #d9e2ea;background:#fff;border-radius:12px;padding:22px 24px;margin:32px 0\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 6px;font-size:1.15em;font-weight:700;color:#0b3c5d\">Shall we move your PrestaShop to WooCommerce?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 16px\">We look at your store and its modules, and give you a fixed price with the redirect plan included. We work with both platforms every day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consultoriaehero.com\/en\/contact\/?asunto=migracion\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#017cba;color:#fff;padding:11px 20px;border-radius:8px;font-weight:600;text-decoration:none\" data-ehero-event=\"cta_migracion_prestashop\">Request a migration quote \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"errores\">The Most Expensive Mistakes<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Switching without redirects.<\/strong> The new store works, but Google treats it as if it were brand new.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Importing orders that trigger emails.<\/strong> Hundreds of customers simultaneously receive a &#8220;we have received your order&#8221; message for an order from two years ago.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Forgetting the equivalence surcharge<\/strong> (recargo de equivalencia) or the Canary Islands taxes. You&#8217;ll notice it on the first incorrect invoice.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Not telling customers about their password.<\/strong> They try to log in, can&#8217;t, and leave.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Migrating on your busiest sales day.<\/strong> If something goes wrong, it goes wrong when it costs the most.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2 id=\"faq\">Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Can you migrate from PrestaShop to WooCommerce without losing SEO?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, if every old URL redirects to the new one with a 301 and they are checked afterward. A small drop in the first few weeks is normal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How long does a migration take?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A small store takes 2 to 4 weeks, including testing. A medium-sized store or one with integrations takes 1 to 3 months. The switch itself takes place in a single day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Will I lose my orders and customers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No. They are imported. What doesn&#8217;t carry over as is are the passwords, which customers will have to create again unless you use a plugin that validates the old ones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How much does it cost to migrate from PrestaShop to WooCommerce?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Between \u20ac800 and \u20ac2,500 for a small store, between \u20ac2,500 and \u20ac6,000 for a medium-sized one, and more than \u20ac6,000 if there are integrations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is it better to upgrade PrestaShop or switch to WooCommerce?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If your store works well and your modules have a version for PrestaShop 8 or 9, upgrading is usually cheaper. If you have to rebuild the theme and modules anyway, it&#8217;s the time to compare.<\/p>\n<h2>Useful Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/consultoriaehero.com\/en\/migrating-from-prestashop-1-6-to-8-what-breaks-and-how-to-avoid-it\/\">Migrating from PrestaShop 1.6 to 8<\/a>: if you&#8217;d rather stay on PrestaShop.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/consultoriaehero.com\/migrar-shopify-a-woocommerce\/\">Migrating from Shopify to WooCommerce<\/a>: the same path from Shopify.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/consultoriaehero.com\/en\/how-much-does-an-online-store-cost-in-spain-in-2026\/\">How Much an Online Store Costs<\/a>: what it costs to keep it open each month.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/consultoriaehero.com\/en\/product\/woocommerce-web-design-your-professional-online-store-ready-to-sell\/\">Custom WooCommerce Store<\/a>: our service, starting at \u20ac2,000, VAT not included.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to migrate from PrestaShop to WooCommerce without losing sales or rankings: what data transfers, what doesn&#8217;t, redirects, the steps in order, and how much it costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jf_save_progress":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"migrate PrestaShop to WooCommerce,PrestaShop to WooCommerce migration,switch from PrestaShop to WooCommerce,move from PrestaShop to WooCommerce,migrate from PrestaShop","rank_math_title":"Migrating from PrestaShop to WooCommerce: Steps and Cost | EHERO","rank_math_description":"How to migrate from PrestaShop to WooCommerce without losing sales or rankings: what data transfers, what doesn't, redirects, the steps in order, and how much it costs.","rank_math_robots":[],"rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_seo_score":37,"footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[8666,962,902],"class_list":["post-22936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-commerce-en","tag-migracion","tag-prestashop-en","tag-woocommerce-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consultoriaehero.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consultoriaehero.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consultoriaehero.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consultoriaehero.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consultoriaehero.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/consultoriaehero.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22973,"href":"https:\/\/consultoriaehero.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22936\/revisions\/22973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consultoriaehero.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consultoriaehero.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consultoriaehero.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consultoriaehero.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}