For Shopify & ecommerce agencies

The migration data layer your agency does not need to staff.

You keep the client relationship, migration strategy, storefront, integrations and launch. Aldervick handles the product-data production layer behind the scenes: source audit, mapping, transformation, exception handling, Shopify-ready files, reconciliation and QA.

Your client stays yoursNo outreach or end-client selling.
Your team owns launchAldervick does not run the storefront cutover.
Data comes back documentedQA and exceptions travel with the handoff.
No permanent headcountUse the service when the migration needs it.

Scope boundary

Keep the strategic work. Hand off the production layer.

Your agency owns

Client-facing migration delivery

  • Client relationship and commercial scope
  • Migration strategy and target architecture
  • Theme / storefront build
  • Apps, integrations and custom development
  • Customer and order migration
  • Live-store administration, cutover and launch
  • Final acceptance and client communication

Aldervick owns

Product-data production

  • Source-data audit and structural preflight
  • Field, option and metafield mapping against defined targets
  • Safe transformation and normalisation
  • SKU / barcode / variant integrity checks
  • Image-reference reconciliation where technically feasible
  • Exception log and unresolved-item handoff
  • Shopify-ready output files and reconciliation QA

Technical evidence

Tested as a data workflow before being sold as one.

These are internal validation results, not customer claims.

3real Shopify dev-store import/re-export round trips passed for core fields
5/5adversarial core tests passing after discovered bugs were fixed
16 / 466missing intended image references exposed in a public supplier-feed exercise
The image discrepancy is deliberately shown because it changed the delivery method: image-reference reconciliation is now an explicit QA step rather than an assumed success condition.

Process

A bounded handoff, not a vague subcontracting arrangement.

01

Preflight

Review representative files, source structure, target requirements and obvious unsupported complexity.

02

Map

Document source-to-target fields, transformations, identifiers and known exceptions.

03

Transform

Prepare the working dataset without inventing missing product facts or forcing uncertain merges.

04

Reconcile

Check record counts, core identifiers, variants and agreed preservation points.

05

Handoff

Return Shopify-ready files, exceptions and QA notes for your agency to continue delivery.

Indicative pricing

Enough information to qualify the opportunity before a long conversation.

Preflight

Migration Data Preflight

£395

Representative-file review, structural risk check and scope recommendation. Credited against a larger accepted workstream.

Complex

Higher-complexity work

£2,000–£3,000+

Multiple sources, more extensive transformation, exception handling or larger reconciliation burden. Quoted after preflight.

These are validation-stage project bands, not a promise to accept every file structure. Final price depends on source condition, transformation complexity, number of authoritative sources and QA burden rather than SKU count alone.

Not included

Deliberately outside the V1 service.

  • Customer, order or other private personal-data migration
  • Theme or storefront development
  • ERP / PIM / CRM integrations or API engineering
  • Live cutover, launch ownership or live-store administration
  • End-client calls, outreach or account management by default
  • Ongoing feed management or permanent catalogue ownership
  • Unsupported complex product structures accepted without review

Have a migration where the data work is eating delivery capacity?

Send a concise description of the source platform, catalogue scale and target requirements. If the project appears suitable, representative files are requested separately through an agreed transfer route. The first step is a bounded preflight, not a sales presentation.

Request a preflight →