Move from Adobe Commerce to Shopify—starting with a free two-hour discovery workshop
Pipelabs will help you assess your current Adobe Commerce environment, identify the complexity that needs to be retained and establish a clearer path to Shopify. Eligible merchants may also qualify for three or six months of Shopify Plus credit.
A focused two-hour working session with the Pipelabs team. No obligation.
A stronger starting point for your Adobe Commerce migration
Before committing to a replatforming project, understand what needs to move, what can be simplified and how Shopify will connect with the systems that run your business.
Free two-hour discovery workshop
A focused working session to examine your current Adobe Commerce environment, understand your reasons for considering Shopify and identify the key decisions that should shape your migration.
- Current Adobe Commerce architecture and pain points
- Custom modules, extensions and important functionality
- Product, customer, company, content and order data
- ERP, PIM, CRM, POS and other system dependencies
- B2C and B2B customer journeys
- Contract pricing, accounts, quotes and purchasing workflows
- Potential migration risks and priorities
- Where Shopify can handle requirements natively
- Where an app, integration or Pocketknife may be required
- Recommended next steps for further discovery and planning
Eligible merchants migrating from Magento / Adobe Commerce may receive three or six months of Shopify Plus credit on a new three-year agreement signed by December 31. Eligibility must be confirmed before contracting. The offer cannot be applied retroactively to signed agreements or combined with other promotions
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Your Path to Shopify Plus
We guide you through a structured, low-risk transition process to modernise your commerce platform without interrupting active business operations.
Free two-hour discovery workshop
Align stakeholders on goals, explore constraints, and outline potential solutions.
Adobe Commerce audit
Detailed evaluation of your current modules, integrations, and data structures.
Shopify solution roadmap
Architecture design, scope definition, and concrete migration plan.
Migration and launch
Parallel deployment, rigorous testing, staff training, and safe cutover.
Pocketknife Integration (Where Required)
For merchants with complex operational requirements, Pocketknife acts as an optional orchestration layer. It seamlessly connects Shopify with the critical backend systems and workflows that run your business. Pocketknife is included only where your specific operations demand it.
ERP Sync
Real-time synchronisation of inventory, customer groups, and orders with Pronto, Business Central, or custom systems.
Customer-Specific Pricing
Live, contract-specific pricing and multi-tiered account structures without heavy platform re-indexing.
B2B Workflows
Corporate purchase limits, budget approvals, and team-specific login permissions mapped directly from your database.
Orders & Inventory
Accurate, real-time stock allocation and native order processing mapped to your existing warehouse logic.
Procurement Systems
Support for cXML Punchout and custom purchase order connections for large trade accounts.
A modern storefront cannot fix disconnected operations on its own.
Businesses often outgrow Magento / Adobe Commerce because of exorbitant maintenance, complex upgrades, and rigid code structures before they are ready to leave the workflows built around it. The migration must modernise the customer experience without losing the operational processes the business depends on.
Exorbitant licensing and hosting fees limit your digital commerce return on investment.
Minor version upgrades are complex, slow, and frequently break critical customisations.
Pricing, customer, and inventory integrations are brittle, slow, and expensive to maintain.
Storefront adjustments depend heavily on specialised developer resources, leading to bottlenecked cycles.
Heavy page weight and complex server setups slow down your frontend and negatively impact user conversions.
Reasons businesses consider Shopify
Global enterprise merchants are migrating from legacy platforms like Adobe Commerce to Shopify to achieve greater agility, lower overheads, and a superior user experience.
Reduced Total Cost of Ownership
Eliminate expensive, unpredictable hosting fees, complex server configurations, and the heavy developer resources required just to keep Adobe Commerce online.
Unmatched Performance & Agility
Deliver lightning-fast pages natively. Leverage Shopify's robust infrastructure and simple, code-free marketing tools to adapt to market trends in minutes, not months.
Zero Upgrade Headaches
Say goodbye to breaking minor version patches. Shopify Plus handles security compliance, server updates, and checkout scaling in the cloud, completely automatically.
Native B2B & B2C Combined
Manage trade accounts, volume contract pricing, custom catalogues, and retail consumer storefronts under a single unified backend, with shared inventory.
Customisation assessment table
A key part of our discovery is mapping your current customisations. Here is how typical Adobe Commerce customisations are modernised on Shopify Plus:
| Functional Area | Adobe Commerce Approach | Shopify Plus + Pocketknife Solution |
|---|---|---|
| B2B Corporate Accounts | Heavy custom modules to support corporate hierarchies, sub-users, purchasing limits, and budget workflows. | Shopify B2B (Native) handles company profiles, user permissions, and location rules out of the box. |
| Customer Contract Pricing | Magento's price indexer suffers from heavy database load and indexing delays with high-volume SKU and customer pricing combinations. | Pocketknife Live Sync reads exact ERP pricing contract tables and injects them live directly in the checkout (No indexing required). |
| Multi-store & Catalogue Management | Complex multi-store views, independent domains, and catalogue segmentation requiring custom backend configuration. | Shopify Markets handles multi-currency, localisation, and domain routing natively under a single unified catalogue structure. |
| ERP & System Connection | Fragile SOAP/REST web service integrations that are slow to execute, expensive to modify, and prone to background process failures. | Pocketknife Orchestration translates and streams orders, pricing, inventory, and invoices directly to ERP databases securely. |
| Storefront Design & Changes | Rigid PHP XML layout handles, require developer support for minor frontend styling or landing page modifications. | Shopify Online Store 2.0 (Native) lets marketing teams create landing pages, manage blocks, and customise the theme without code. |
Our Seven-Stage Migration Roadmap
Transitioning B2B channels requires careful coordination. Pipelabs uses a proven, structured process to migrate storefronts off Adobe Commerce to Shopify Plus and Pocketknife, running environments in parallel, designed to minimise disruption.
01
Discovery & Strategy
What must be preserved, improved or retired?
Discovery & Strategy
What must be preserved, improved or retired?
We begin by understanding your business's existing Adobe Commerce/Magento setup, customer journeys, internal workflows and operational dependencies.
Before proposing the migration, we identify what should be preserved, what can be improved and what no longer needs to move into the new architecture.
02
Data Migration
What moves, what stays and which system owns it?
Data Migration
What moves, what stays and which system owns it?
Moving from Adobe Commerce does not mean every piece of historical information should simply be copied into Shopify.
We review products, customers, pricing and order data to determine what should be migrated, cleaned, archived or accessed through an integration. The objective is to place the right information in the right system.
03
Integration Design
How will critical information move between systems?
Integration Design
How will critical information move between systems?
We design the pathways that allow Shopify and your operational systems to share information smoothly.
This is where we specify how stock availability, pricing updates, customer account files, invoices and sales orders will sync, aiming to minimise latency.
04
Development & Sync
Building the foundation and establishing the flows.
Development & Sync
Building the foundation and establishing the flows.
With the specifications set, we build the Shopify environment and establish the live data connection.
We configure the business rules in Pocketknife and write any custom logic required to support your specific workflows, ensuring transactions flow accurately.
05
User Experience
Refining the buying experience for your B2B customers.
User Experience
Refining the buying experience for your B2B customers.
B2B buyers expect a straightforward, efficient ordering experience that respects their specific account terms.
We customise the storefront so customers can easily access order templates, request quotes, approve purchases and view statements, making self-service intuitive.
06
Testing & QA
Verifying performance, reliability and sync accuracy.
Testing & QA
Verifying performance, reliability and sync accuracy.
Before launch, we test every pathway, edge case and error fallback procedure thoroughly.
We verify that orders place correctly, pricing matches the ERP, inventory syncs, and your staff are trained to manage the environment, ensuring complete readiness.
07
Launch & Support
Executing a safe, supported live transition.
Launch & Support
Executing a safe, supported live transition.
We coordinate a carefully structured launch designed to avoid disruption to your active operations.
Once live, our teams monitor transaction flows, support your customers, and work with your staff to refine workflows and improve post-launch conversion.
Shopify Plus is optimised for speed, scalability, conversion and customisable B2B buyer experiences.
Pocketknife links transaction information and logic live to ERP databases without manual effort.
Pipelabs brings technical experience, detailed strategy and support to every stage of your transition.
Our migration methodology ensures your business moves to a modern commerce platform while completely preserving the critical operational workflows you rely on.
Where Pocketknife Fits
A successful migration requires the right commerce foundation, the right workflow technology, and the right strategic execution. Here is how they work together:
Common migration questions.
Can we migrate Magento's multi-store views and catalogue structures?
Yes. We can transition your multi-store structures, customer groups, tier structures, and catalogue schemas from Adobe Commerce (Magento) to Shopify Plus. We map complex catalogue hierarchies and customer-group configurations cleanly to Shopify's native B2B structures.
How does Pocketknife replicate Magento's customer group pricing?
Pocketknife coordinates directly with your ERP (Pronto, Business Central, etc.) as the master source of truth. It reads your price contract file structures and displays accurate, account-specific rates, brand-level volume discounts, and custom tiers directly in the Shopify checkout, completely bypassing heavy Magento price indexing delays.
Will moving off Adobe Commerce Cloud affect our logistics or ERP connection?
No. Because Pocketknife integrates directly with your existing ERP database, the cutover from Adobe Commerce does not affect underlying logistics, picking, packing, or dispatch workflows. Orders are sent down to your warehouse/ERP with matching order types and shipping structures already in place.
How long does a Magento to Shopify Plus B2B migration take?
A standard enterprise migration takes between 12 to 16 weeks, depending on the number of catalogue variants, third-party extensions, and legacy database hygiene. We run both Magento and Shopify Plus setups in parallel during integration development to ensure zero downtime for your active customer base.
Related Pocketknife capabilities
Shopify B2B Portal
Rebuild your complex Adobe Commerce buyer experiences natively and elegantly on Shopify Plus.
ERP System Integrations
Replicate your intricate Adobe Commerce ERP integrations on a modern, real-time Pocketknife sync layer.
Commerce Vision to Shopify
Learn about migrating from old-school enterprise B2B platforms like Commerce Vision to a modern Shopify ecosystem.
Let's discuss your migration.
Speak with an enterprise commerce architect about moving off Adobe Commerce. Discover how to preserve your key workflows while building on a faster, more cost-effective foundation.
Wide Integrations Ecosystem
While many of our clients migrate from Magento setups, Pocketknife is highly adaptable. We natively integrate with major platforms including Microsoft Dynamics 365, SAP, Oracle, PIMCORE, Klaviyo, Gorgias, and CIN7.
Direct Line
[email protected]Book your free Adobe Commerce migration workshop
Tell us briefly about your current Adobe Commerce or Magento environment. The Pipelabs team will contact you to arrange a free two-hour discovery workshop and discuss whether the Shopify migration offer may be relevant.
Before you commit to a migration, understand what the move requires
Start with a free two-hour discovery workshop to map your current Adobe Commerce environment, migration priorities and potential Shopify architecture.