Salesforce Commerce Cloud to Shopify Plus.

Plan for 16–24 weeks for a mid-market or enterprise migration with B2B operations and ERP integration. Simpler catalogs with limited cartridge customization can land closer to 16 weeks; multi-site realms with heavy SAP or OMS integration push toward 24. SFCC migrations sit at the longer end of the replatforming spectrum because the cartridge layer hides more custom business logic than most teams expect — promotions, pricing, checkout flows, and integrations all live in code that has to be audited before it can be re-scoped. That audit happens in the first three to four weeks, which is also when the redirect strategy and data migration map are locked. If you want that plan de-risked before committing to a full build, our fixed-price Migration Roadmap engagement produces the complete scope, budget, and timeline in just four weeks.

Not if the redirect strategy is planned before the build starts. A complete 301 redirect map is a core deliverable in every migration we run, and most merchants recover full organic traffic within 60–90 days of cutover when it is executed properly. SFCC URL structures — locale-prefixed paths, search-refinement URLs, Page Designer content, and pipeline-era legacy URLs — differ significantly from Shopify’s patterns, so the map has to cover products, categories, content assets, and refinement pages, not just the top navigation. We also preserve metadata and structured data, set canonicals on the Shopify side, and monitor Search Console through the post-launch window. The migrations that lose traffic are the ones that treat redirects as a launch-week task. Treated as a workstream from week one, SEO equity is one of the most controllable risks in the entire project.

Yes. Customer groups, price books, and catalog assignments in Salesforce Commerce Cloud map to Shopify’s native B2B structures — Company Accounts, Price Lists, and Catalogs. Account hierarchies, negotiated pricing, and buyer permissions carry over; what changes is where the logic lives. Pricing rules written as cartridge code or promotion-engine configuration need to be re-architected into Shopify’s native Price Lists, Shopify Functions, or B2B Protocol middleware depending on complexity. The readiness assessment classifies every pricing pattern before the build starts, so nothing surfaces mid-migration. Data volume is rarely the problem — order history, saved addresses, and company records migrate on established patterns with post-migration validation. The rethinking happens around edge cases: contract pricing fed by an ERP, quantity breaks across segments, and approval workflows. Those edge cases are scoped explicitly during discovery, priced deliberately, and never discovered late in the build.

They get audited and rationalized, not ported. We classify every cartridge and custom controller in your stack into three categories: replaced by native Shopify features, replaced by a Shopify app equivalent, or rebuilt as custom development via Shopify Functions or B2B Protocol. Most merchants shed a significant share of their cartridge stack in the process, because years of SFCC development accumulate code written to work around platform gaps that Shopify Plus covers natively — promotions, gift cards, search, content slots. The goal is to separate necessary complexity from inherited complexity. Business logic your operation genuinely depends on is re-architected deliberately; scaffolding that only existed to serve the old platform is retired. That rationalization is usually where the total-cost-of-ownership gains come from, since every retired cartridge is code that nobody has to maintain, patch, or regression-test ever again.

Yes — as a peer workstream, not an afterthought. Whether you run SAP, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, or another ERP, the integration architecture is scoped during discovery and built in parallel with the platform migration. Our team has integrated commerce platforms with SAP at enterprise scale, including implementations involving Salesforce Commerce Cloud and Akeneo PIM, so we document the data flows your SFCC instance currently depends on — pricing, inventory, order export, invoicing — and re-establish each one against Shopify Plus through Patchworks iPaaS or custom API middleware, depending on the landscape. ERP integration is where SFCC migration budgets typically overrun, because teams scope it as a sub-task of the build. We sequence it with its own discovery, its own testing plan, and its own validation during soft launch, so order flow and pricing accuracy are proven before full cutover.