Businesses migrate to reduce maintenance costs, simplify store management, improve security, leverage Shopify’s hosted infrastructure, and gain access to a large app ecosystem.

Shopify offers managed hosting, automatic updates, built-in security, faster deployment, easier administration, and lower technical maintenance requirements.

The complexity depends on the size of the store, custom functionality, third-party integrations, and data volume.

Small stores may migrate in 2–4 weeks, while enterprise stores can take several months.

Products, categories, customers, orders, reviews, pages, blogs, coupons, SEO metadata, and inventory data.

Yes, product images and galleries can be transferred.

Customer information can be migrated, but passwords generally cannot be transferred directly due to encryption differences.