Products, customers, selected historical orders, reviews, pages, posts, and files can often move through CSV files, migration apps, manual work, or APIs. Shopify’s official Squarespace guide requires exported product and customer files to be mapped into Shopify’s CSV structure, then verified after import.
Give catalog and content their own migration checks
Products and customer information can follow different export and import steps from page content, blog posts, media, and order history. Choose the method for each record type and test its field coverage. A product appearing in Shopify does not prove that its variants, images, availability, or category relationships are correct.
Review content with the same care as the catalog. Check image links, formatting, navigation, and the editing experience in the destination. Decide how historical purchases should be available to staff and customers, and record anything archived separately. This avoids discovering after launch that a visually complete store is missing useful operational context.
What to check before deciding
- List the exact data and content types included in the move.
- Check sample imports before applying a mapping to every record.
- Verify variants, images, availability, and customer/order relationships.
- Document archive access and any excluded fields.
