The BigCommerce to Shopify CTO Guide
A migration guide built for CTOs moving from BigCommerce to Shopify.
We don’t just migrate.
We rebuild your commerce foundation.
This guide helps CTOs and technical leads evaluate, plan, and execute a migration from BigCommerce to Shopify with precision.
Architecture
Unpack the core differences between BigCommerce’s microservices and Shopify’s modular monolith—and what they mean for scale, uptime, and team velocity.
Extensibility
Learn how Shopify Functions, metaobjects, and APIs offer structured, scalable ways to replace brittle logic and future-proof your stack.
Timelines
Get clear timelines, cutover models, and a phased checklist for managing data, integrations, and QA.
Data Migration
Understand how to translate BigCommerce’s option sets, modifiers, and custom fields into Shopify’s cleaner, more flexible data model.
Operational Insights
See what engineering leaders learned from real-world migrations – how they structured their teams, avoided friction, and scaled faster post-launch.
Business Impact
Understand how Shopify enables leaner teams, faster iteration, and lower TCO – so developers spend less time on upkeep and more on growth.
CTO-Level Checklist
Use a battle-tested checklist covering discovery, integration mapping, QA, and launch readiness – built for teams managing complex replatforms.
MTN Haus is a leader in migrations from your platform to Shopify.
BigCommerce offers flexibility, but as systems scale, that flexibility shifts into overhead.
Custom workflows require upkeep. Integrations become brittle. Dev teams are left maintaining architecture instead of improving outcomes.
Shopify consolidates complexity—extensibility, infrastructure, and performance are built in by default.
It’s a pattern we’ve seen across migrations—and this guide is built to help your team move with precision, not guesswork.
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