WooCommerce hosting for shops moving off PrestaShop.
PrestaShop and WooCommerce model a catalogue differently enough that the interesting work is mapping, not copying. And the customer passwords do not come with you.
Where PrestaShop and WooCommerce stop agreeing.
Products, orders and customers all exist in both. What differs is how they are structured, and that is where a copied migration goes wrong.
Combinations become variations
PrestaShop builds sellable items from attributes and combinations. WooCommerce uses variations, which is close but not identical, so per-combination stock and pricing are mapped rather than assumed.
URLs with an ID in front
PrestaShop addresses commonly look like /12-product-name.html. There is no way to reproduce that in WooCommerce, so every one needs a redirect generated from the old identifier.
Passwords that cannot move
The two platforms hash passwords differently, and PrestaShop's older scheme depends on a site-specific key. Customers keep their accounts and order history, but they will need to set a new password.
Tax rules that are structured differently
PrestaShop groups tax rules by country and state in its own model. Reproducing the same charged amounts in WooCommerce means rebuilding the rules rather than importing a table.
Multistore, if it is switched on
One PrestaShop install can serve several shops with shared products. Which parts are shared decides whether that becomes one WooCommerce site or several, and it is settled before anything moves.
Map the catalogue, then move it.
A PrestaShop export that is imported without mapping produces a shop with the right number of products and the wrong stock against half of them.
- Combinations mapped to variations with stock verified
- Redirects generated for every ID-prefixed URL
- Password reset flow prepared and communicated
- Tax rules rebuilt and test orders checked
A catalogue that stays quick at checkout.
PrestaShop shops arriving here are usually large and usually were not fast. Variations multiply the product table, which is exactly where an untuned WooCommerce site struggles.
What this move needs that a host migration does not
These are the specific places where the two platforms model the same idea in incompatible ways.
| Setting | What we do | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Product structure | Attributes and combinations mapped onto WooCommerce variations | PrestaShop generates sellable items from combinations of attributes, and importing them without a mapping leaves per-combination stock and pricing attached to the wrong things. |
| Product URLs | Redirects generated from the numeric identifier in every old address | PrestaShop puts a product ID at the front of the URL, which WooCommerce has no way of reproducing, so every ranking product page needs an explicit redirect. |
| Customer passwords | Accounts and order history migrated, with a password reset for every customer | The two platforms hash passwords incompatibly and PrestaShop's older scheme is tied to a site-specific key, so there is no route that lets customers keep their existing credentials. |
| Tax configuration | Tax rule groups rebuilt and verified against test orders | PrestaShop organises tax by rule groups per country and state, and an import that does not reproduce that structure charges different amounts than the shop did the day before. |
| Multistore | Shared catalogue and per-shop overrides resolved into a target structure first | A single PrestaShop install can run several storefronts off one catalogue, and whether that becomes one WooCommerce site or several is a decision no importer can make. |
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Questions, answered.
Do my PrestaShop combinations become WooCommerce variations?
My product URLs have numbers in them. What happens to those?
Will my customers keep their passwords?
Will my tax rates come across correctly?
I run several shops from one PrestaShop install. How does that work?
Move the catalogue without moving the guesswork.
Free migration, combinations mapped properly, and a redirect for every product that ranks.