We led Madara's replatform from Magento to Shopify from inside the team. Three months of actual build - first script to last market cut over - across 13 countries, 8 locales, with three years of order history carried cleanly to the new side.
Madara had been running on Magento for years. It worked, but it had become the thing slowing everything down. Releases dragged. Hosting and maintenance kept climbing. Simple merchandising changes needed heavy dev work that only a shrinking pool of engineers still wanted to touch.
The move to Shopify wasn't a theme swap. Thirteen markets. B2B and DTC side by side. Products, customers, orders, media, and every piece of metadata had to land on the new side without losing continuity - and the whole integration stack had to come across cleanly, ready to serve the business from day one.
We embedded inside Madara's team and led the work end-to-end: stakeholder presentations, planning and research, timeline, shop and market configuration, payments and shipping setup, integrations, and the migration itself. An external Shopify front-end developer handled the theme implementation under our direction; we ran project management, backend, and the heavy migration lift.
We tried off-the-shelf migration tools first - Matrixify and a few others - and quickly hit their limits. So we built our own middleware: custom scripts that read from Magento's MariaDB, transformed records to match Shopify's data model, and wrote them through the Shopify Admin GraphQL API. Products, variants, customers, orders, media, navigation - every data type handled, every market validated on staging before cutover.
The site is faster. Shopping is easier. New customers keep finding it and AOV is up. And when the business needs something new, we ship it this week - not next quarter.
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