Moving your online store from AtomStore to Shopify is a strategic step that can bring tangible benefits to your business. The decision to migrate can be difficult, but in 2025, the rapid growth of e-commerce and growing market demands make it worth considering implementing Shopify. Below, we discuss the key advantages of Shopify over AtomStore and how working with an experienced Shopify partner ensures a fast, safe, and stress-free transition – from data migration, through integrations, to SEO and conversion optimization.
Shopify has established itself as a global e-commerce leader, while AtomStore remains a niche solution on the Polish market. For the store owner, this means that by choosing Shopify, you gain a platform tested by millions of sellers around the world. Below are some of Shopify's key advantages:
To sum up, switching to Shopify gives the store owner access to world-class e-commerce tools, greater freedom of development and operational stability. This is the foundation on which you can confidently build further sales growth, while AtomStore - although solid locally - may prove to be too limited if you are aiming for ambitious online business development.
Changing e-commerce platforms alone can be a complex project. Here, a Shopify partner with experience in implementations and migrations plays a key role. Working with a certified Shopify agency or expert makes the migration much faster and safer, minimizing the risk of errors and the stress of the store owner. What exactly do you gain?
First of all, relief and peace of mind. A Shopify Partner takes over the full management of the migration process - from planning, through execution, to testing and launching a new store. Shopify even officially recommends hiring a Partner to manage and implement the migration. This means you don't have to delve into technical details or coordinate many tasks at once. An experienced team will guide you through the entire process step by step, informing you about the progress. This eliminates the chaos and stress associated with the transfer – the store remains in good hands, and you can focus on running your business.
Secondly, a faster launch of the new platform. Shopify agencies have developed migration methods and ready-made tools to streamline work (e.g. migration scripts, data import applications, checklists). Thanks to this, the entire project takes less time than in the case of independent trials by trial and error. Experts anticipate typical challenges (such as differences in data structure or configuration) and solve them in advance. As a result, your store can start operating on Shopify at an optimal time – even within a few weeks of starting work, depending on the scale – which allows you to start using the benefits of the new platform faster.
Thirdly, risk reduction and security. Shopify migration covers many sensitive areas (customer data, orders, payment integrations, etc.), and mistakes can cost a lot. An experienced partner will take care of the contingency plan and backups at every stage. They also have experience in similar projects - they know where problems can occur and how to avoid them. For example, before the Shopify store is made public, the partner will thoroughly test it (order process, integration operation, correctness of data migration). You have a guarantee that the transition to Shopify will take place without downtime and unpleasant surprises.
In short, the role of a Shopify partner in the migration cannot be overestimated. They are Your guides to the new platform – they guarantee a smooth process, data security and the peace of mind you need for such an important technological change.
One of the most important aspects of migration is transferring data from the old platform to the new one. It's not just about the products themselves, but also about customer data, order history, product categories, descriptions, photos and even blog content or reviews. Losing these resources would be unthinkable for the store owner – so it's crucial that the migration takes place without losing data and maintaining its integrity. Here again, an experienced Shopify partner comes to the rescue.
Professionals have the right tools and know-how to painlessly export and import data between AtomStore and Shopify. They often use dedicated migration applications or their own scripts that map data fields from one platform to another. Thanks to this, even large product databases (with variants, attributes), customer lists or thousands of orders can be migrated automatically, minimizing manual work. The partner knows exactly what differences in the data structure exist between the systems and can compensate for them accordingly (e.g. adjust address formats, taxes, shipping methods, etc.).
Moreover, a good partner will take care of maintaining business continuity. Migration is often a great opportunity to clean up - experts will help you identify outdated or duplicate data and clean up the database during the transfer. However, all key information (e.g. active customers, current stock levels, latest orders) will be preserved. Companies offering migrations emphasize that they will migrate all data, including products, customers and orders, while maintaining the SEO structure and key store functions - and the entire process will run smoothly and safely. In other words, your Shopify store will launch with the full "baggage" of previous years of operation, as if the platform change had taken place behind the scenes.
You can't forget about legal aspects and data security. The partner will ensure compliance with GDPR during migration (e.g. secure processing of customers' personal information). Data will be secured and encrypted at every stage, and will be verified after the migration is complete. This gives you the certainty that nothing was lost along the way, and all records are consistent and ready to use in the new store.
To sum up, thanks to the partner's experience, data transfer from AtomStore to Shopify will be seamless. Your customers will not feel any negative effects - on the contrary, they will gain access to their account and order history on the new, better platform, as if nothing had ever changed. For you, however, it will be a big step forward, achieved without the risk of losing valuable information collected over the years.
One of the concerns when changing platforms is whether the new system will integrate with all the tools we use. These can be payment systems (e.g. PayU gateways, Przelewy24, PayPal, etc.), courier and shipping systems, marketplace platforms (Allegro, Amazon), ERP or warehouse systems, marketing automation tools, CRM, accounting systems, and many others. Fortunately, Shopify offers impressive integration possibilities, often surpassing what was available on AtomStore. Shopify's global ecosystem means support for thousands of external services - integrations can be done via ready-made apps from the App Store or thanks to Shopify's open API, which allows developers to connect almost anything. In Poland, Shopify is also developing rapidly in this respect: there are plugins for local payment gateways, integrations with InPost and domestic couriers, wholesalers, and even dedicated bridges connecting Shopify with Polish ERPs or accounting systems. Features specific to the Polish market (e.g. BLIK as a payment method) are also becoming available thanks to official partnerships or solutions created by the community.
In practice, an experienced Shopify partner will analyze which integrations your store uses on AtomStore and prepare a plan to recreate (or improve) them on Shopify. Often, this can mean replacing expensive, non-standard integrations - which had to be created for AtomStore - with cheaper and easier to maintain applications from the Shopify App Store. For example, if your store was tied to a specific ERP system, the partner will check whether there is a ready-made application integrating this ERP with Shopify. If not, they will propose creating a dedicated solution or using a universal integration tool. Thanks to this, all key business processes (inventory synchronization, automatic order transfer for fulfillment, shipment status updates, etc.) will work smoothly even after migration.
Automation is another area where Shopify shines, and a partner can help you make the most of it. The platform offers tools such as Shopify Flow (for Shopify Plus plans) and a wide range of applications that automate administrative and marketing tasks. This allows you to create business rules and processes that execute automatically - without the need for daily manual work. For example, you can set up automatic notifications about low stock levels, customer segmentation and sending dedicated marketing emails, loyalty programs or data synchronization between the store and external systems. Importantly, many of these automations can be "clicked" without programming, building them like blocks. A Shopify Partner will help you design and implement such improvements – analyzing which operations in your store are worth automating to save your team time and eliminate potential human errors.
The effects of integration and automation translate directly into business results. Imagine that your entire e-commerce ecosystem works like a harmonious organism: store, warehouse, couriers, marketing – all elements exchange data in real time. Orders flow in for fulfillment instantly, customers receive current status information, and you have full insight into current sales data. In addition, there is marketing, which, thanks to integration with email/SMS tools, can automatically respond to customer behavior (abandoned carts, customer birthdays, VIP segmentation, etc.). Well-configured marketing automation can generate an average of 30% of an online store's revenue, which shows how big an opportunity there is to use these tools. A Shopify Partner has the know-how to put all these pieces together so that your store not only works, but works smarter – saving you time and maximizing your profits.
Migrating to Shopify is not just a change of tool, but also a great opportunity to improve your store's online visibility (SEO) and conversion rate. After all, the goal is not only to have a store on a new platform, but also to sell more and more effectively. In this area, partner support and Shopify's capabilities also give the store owner an advantage.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) – a professionally conducted migration protects your previous achievements in search results. This means that all product and category URLs from AtomStore will be redirected (301) to their corresponding pages in Shopify, so as not to lose the positions they have earned in Google. The partner will prepare a map of old and new URLs and implement redirects, thanks to which search engine robots will be correctly redirected, and customers arriving from searches will not encounter 404 errors. As migration specialists assure, taking care of SEO during the transfer means that the store does not lose its position in the search engine. What's more, Shopify can even improve the technical aspects of your store's SEO: pages on this platform load quickly (global CDN network, efficient servers), are adapted to mobile devices (which Google rewards in the ranking), and the code structure is index-friendly. Shopify automatically generates a sitemap, allows editing meta-tags, supports redirects, and includes many applications that support SEO (e.g. for image optimization, adding schema.org markup for rich results). A Shopify Partner can perform an SEO audit of your store during the migration and make improvements—for example, improving the structure of headings on pages, adding missing meta descriptions, implementing breadcrumbs, or optimizing content for selected keywords (e.g. "implementing Shopify" if you care about SEO in this area). Thanks to these actions, your store has a chance to achieve better visibility in search results after migration than before, attracting more organic customers.
Conversion optimization—increasing the percentage of visitors who make a purchase—is another area where the benefits of migrating to Shopify can be felt. Just changing the platform to a more efficient and user-friendly one can improve the customer experience, and therefore conversions. Shopify offers an optimized, single-pass checkout process that is constantly being improved and is known for its high efficiency in finalizing transactions. Many case studies show that implementing Shopify increases conversion rates by double-digit percentages. This is due to, among other things, shorter page load times, intuitive mobile navigation, and improvements to the shopping process (e.g. the ability to create an account at the same time as placing an order, a variety of payment methods integrated with checkout, remembering data by the Shop Pay gateway for returning customers, etc.).
Working with a Shopify partner means that you won't stop at default settings - experts will help you improve your store in terms of UX/UI to maximize conversions. These can be small changes that make a big difference: better placement of CTA buttons, simplification of forms, highlighting trusted elements (e.g. reviews or security certificates), implementing upsell/cross-sell functions in the cart. A partner experienced in conversion optimization will analyze the customer journey in your store and identify where you may be losing users. Then, it will propose A/B tests of specific solutions – e.g. a different product page layout, an additional “Buy Now” button, changing the text on the buttons – and based on the data, implement those that bring better results. Such iterative improvements can add up to a significant increase in conversion rate. For example, improvements to the design of a Shopify Plus store for one brand resulted in about 15% average increase in conversions. For your business, this could mean hundreds of thousands of złoty of additional revenue per year, without increasing traffic – purely by better utilizing existing traffic.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that better SEO and conversions complement each other. A higher position in Google brings in more visitors, and conversion optimization means that more of them become customers. Migrating from AtomStore to Shopify, carried out in cooperation with specialists, provides the impetus for improvement on both fronts at the same time. The new platform provides a solid technological base, and expert support allows you to squeeze the most business opportunities out of it.
Migrating a store from AtomStore to Shopify is an investment that can quickly pay for itself from both a technological and business perspective. As a store owner, you gain a stable, scalable platform with global reach, thanks to which your e-business will not be limited by technology. Working with a Shopify partner guarantees that the implementation process will be smooth and risk-free - data will be transferred flawlessly, integrations will work from day one, and SEO positions and conversion rates will be at least maintained, if not improved.
In an era of dynamic changes in the e-commerce market of 2025, competitive advantage often depends on flexibility and innovation. By switching from AtomStore to Shopify, you open the door to a rich ecosystem of tools and capabilities that support the development of your store in every field - from marketing, through logistics, to analytics. Such a change is more than just a change of software: it is a step towards a modern, more profitable online business. If you care about rapid growth, international expansion, efficient processes and customer satisfaction - Shopify, implemented with the help of experienced specialists, is a solution that will allow you to achieve these goals. You as the owner, your team and, above all, your customers will benefit from it, who will receive an even better shopping experience.
Switching to Shopify is therefore not a cost, but an investment in the future of your store - an investment that brings measurable benefits and puts your e-commerce one step ahead of the competition.
