How to move from WooCommerce to LaunchMyStore
Export your products with WooCommerce's built-in CSV exporter and upload the file with LaunchMyStore's WooCommerce importer, included on Gold and Platinum. Products, variations, prices, stock and tags come across. Categories, SKUs and content are rebuilt, and product URLs keep their slugs but change prefix, from /product/ to /products/.
By Shivam Wadhwa, Founder, LaunchMyStoreLast updated Facts checked November 2026
In short
- What moves
- Simple and variable products with their variations, names, descriptions, regular and sale prices, stock, tags and first image, in one upload. You rebuild categories, SKUs, pages, posts and the theme. Customers and orders stay in your WordPress exports.
- How long
- The upload runs in one step, and images copy into your store in about 5–10 minutes. Leave a week for design, payments, a test order and the domain switch: the length of the 7-day free trial.
- What it costs
- $0 for the trial, then Gold at $70/mo billed yearly ($840 a year), with hosting, updates and backups included. WooCommerce's own estimate for hosting alone is $25–$350 a month.2
- Which plan
- Gold or Platinum: the Shopify & WooCommerce importer is included on both. On Starter ($24/mo billed yearly) you can move up to 100 products with LaunchMyStore's own CSV template.
Included by default
What do you get on LaunchMyStore that WooCommerce leaves to you?
Every LaunchMyStore plan includes hosting, platform updates, premium themes, 104 storefront languages, 34+ payment gateways with 0% platform transaction fees and the Nova AI agent. On WooCommerce you buy hosting, $25–$350 a month by its own estimate, run updates and backups yourself, and need a plugin such as MultilingualPress, $149 a year, for a second language.2,4,6
0% platform transaction fees
On every plan and every gateway. You pay only your payment provider's own rate.
On WooCommerce: No platform fee either; WooPayments charges 2.9% + $0.30 per US card.2,3
104 storefront languages
Included by default on every plan. There's no language app to install.
On WooCommerce: One language in core; more needs a plugin such as MultilingualPress, $149 a year.6
Premium themes
Included on every plan, with a visual theme editor, and you can switch themes at any time.
On WooCommerce: Free or paid WordPress themes that you install and keep updated.
34+ payment gateways
Stripe, PayPal, Square, Authorize.Net and more, on every plan.
On WooCommerce: WooPayments, plus free Stripe and PayPal plugins.3
Nova AI agent
In your admin on every plan, with 500, 1,000 or 2,000 Nova credits a month on Starter, Gold and Platinum, plus an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor.
On WooCommerce: WooCommerce AI is in beta.13
Product reviews
Foundry Reviews, LaunchMyStore's own reviews app, is free to install from the app marketplace.
On WooCommerce: Included in the free core plugin, with star ratings.11
Point of sale
Included free on Platinum, with 2 seats. On Starter and Gold, POS is an add-on at $49 per store per month.
On WooCommerce: Free in the Woo mobile app with WooPayments or Stripe; the card reader is $5 a month.12
Hosting and 24/7 support
Hosting, security, platform updates and 24/7 support are part of every plan.
On WooCommerce: You buy hosting, $25–$350 a month by WooCommerce's estimate, and run updates yourself.2,4
LaunchMyStore lines are from the pricing page and the admin; WooCommerce lines link to WooCommerce's own pages, checked November 2026.
What moves
What moves from WooCommerce to LaunchMyStore, and how?
Products move by file: WooCommerce's product CSV uploads into LaunchMyStore's WooCommerce importer. That importer reads fewer columns than the Shopify one, so SKUs, categories and extra images need a second pass. Content, customers, orders and plugins don't import; the table gives the method and plan for each item.
| What | Moves? | How | Plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Products and variations | Moves | Export from Products → Export in WordPress,1 then upload under Products → the arrow beside Add New Product → Bulk Upload Products → WooCommerce. Simple and variable products, their variations and attributes, names, descriptions, regular and sale prices and tags come across. | PlanIncluded on Gold and Platinum |
| Product images | In part | The importer takes the first image of each product and variation and copies it into your store in about 5–10 minutes. Add gallery images (up to 5 per product) in the product editor. | PlanIncluded on Gold and Platinum |
| Stock | In part | Read from the Stock column. A blank cell becomes 10, so check quantities after the import. | PlanIncluded on Gold and Platinum |
| SKUs and SEO plugin fields | Doesn't move | Not read by the WooCommerce importer. Add SKUs and SEO titles in the product editor, or move products with LaunchMyStore's CSV template, which has SKU columns. | PlanEvery plan |
| Grouped and external products | Doesn't move | Skipped by the importer. Recreate them as regular products if you still need them. | Plan— |
| Categories | In part | No importer. Create them under Products → Categories and assign products. Set each handle to the WooCommerce category slug. | PlanEvery plan |
| Customers | In part | WooCommerce core has no full customer export; an extension such as Customer / Order / Coupon Export adds one.7 LaunchMyStore has no customer import, so keep the file. | PlanEvery plan (bulk via the API on Platinum) |
| Order history | Doesn't move | Doesn't import. A full order export from WooCommerce needs the same kind of extension;7 keep it as your record. | Plan— |
| Blog posts and pages | In part | WordPress exports posts and pages as an XML file under Tools → Export,8 which LaunchMyStore can't read. Paste the content into Appearance → Blogs and Appearance → Pages. | PlanEvery plan |
| Theme and design | In part | WordPress themes don't move. Pick a LaunchMyStore theme (premium themes are included) and edit it visually; the code editor is included on Gold and Platinum. | PlanEvery plan; code editor on Gold and Platinum |
| Domain and email | Moves | Your domain stays at its registrar. Add the CNAME and TXT records from Settings → Domains; your email (MX) records aren't touched, and SSL is issued automatically. | PlanEvery plan |
| URLs and SEO | In part | Slugs can stay, prefixes change: /product/hoodie/ becomes /products/hoodie and /product-category/accessories/ becomes /collections/accessories.9 There's no redirect manager. | PlanEvery plan |
| Payments | Moves | WooPayments and gateway plugins don't move. Connect Stripe, PayPal, Square, Authorize.Net or another of 34+ gateways directly, with 0% platform fees. | PlanEvery plan |
| Plugins and extensions | In part | Don't move. Subscriptions are included on Gold and Platinum, 104 storefront languages are included by default on every plan, and the marketplace has 55+ apps, including Foundry Reviews, LaunchMyStore's free reviews app. | PlanEvery plan; subscriptions on Gold and Platinum |
- Moves imports with the file, or connects directly
- In part partly, or rebuilt in the admin
- Doesn't move keep your export as a record
URLs and SEO
What happens to my WooCommerce URLs and SEO?
The slugs can stay but the prefixes change. WooCommerce's default product URL is /product/slug/ and its category URL is /product-category/slug/;9 LaunchMyStore uses /products/handle and /collections/handle. LaunchMyStore has no redirect manager, so old WooCommerce links show a not-found page until search engines and your own links catch up.
Keep each slug as the handle, so only the prefix changes. The importer builds handles from product names: lowercase, with every run of other characters turned into one hyphen. Compare them with your WooCommerce slugs and edit any that differ in the product's SEO section. Category handles are editable the same way.
Submit the new sitemap. Your LaunchMyStore store serves /sitemap.xml with every product, collection, blog and page URL; add it in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools on the day you switch the domain.
Then update the links you control: menus, email templates, ads, social profiles and marketplace listings. Links from other sites to old /product/ URLs won't forward, so start with your most-visited product pages.
| On WooCommerce | On LaunchMyStore |
|---|---|
| /product/hoodie-with-logo/ | /products/hoodie-with-logo |
| /product-category/accessories/ | /collections/accessories |
| /about/ | /pages/about |
WooCommerce's default product and category bases, and a page under WordPress post-name permalinks. Old URLs don't redirect, so update links that point at them.
Step by step
How do I move from WooCommerce to LaunchMyStore, step by step?
Build the new store on its free launchmystore.io address while WordPress keeps selling, and switch the domain last. In order: start the trial, export from WordPress, import products, add SKUs, categories and content, set up the theme, payments and shipping, place a test order, then point your domain and cancel hosting.
- 01
Start your free trial
Create your store for $0. You get 7 days and a free yourstore.launchmystore.io address to build on; nothing you do here touches WordPress.
- 02
Export your products from WooCommerce
In WordPress, go to Products → Export and export all columns and product types to a CSV file.1
- 03
- 04
Import your products
Go to Products → the arrow beside Add New Product → Bulk Upload Products, choose WooCommerce and upload the file. It's checked against your plan's limit (1,000 Products on Gold, 5,000 Products on Platinum).
- 05
Fill in what the importer skips
Add SKUs, gallery images and SEO titles in the product editor, set each product's handle to its WooCommerce slug, and correct any stock that defaulted to 10.
- 06
Rebuild categories, pages and posts
Create categories with the same slugs, assign products, and paste pages and posts into Appearance → Pages and Appearance → Blogs.
- 07
Choose a theme and connect payments
Pick a premium theme, edit it visually, then connect Stripe, PayPal, Square or another of 34+ gateways and set shipping zones and taxes.
- 08
Place a test order
Buy a product on the launchmystore.io address to check checkout, payment, emails and stock, and refund it from the order page.
- 09
Point your domain
In Settings → Domains, connect your domain and add the CNAME and TXT records shown at your registrar. SSL is issued automatically; the admin's instructions estimate 5–15 minutes for DNS to update.
Help: connect a custom domain - 10
Submit the sitemap and cancel hosting
Add /sitemap.xml in Google Search Console, update your links, and cancel WordPress hosting once orders are arriving on LaunchMyStore.
Timeline
How long does a WooCommerce to LaunchMyStore move take?
Plan on about a week for a small store, which fits inside the 7-day free trial. The product upload takes one step and images copy in 5–10 minutes; the extra work compared with Shopify is filling in SKUs, categories and slugs, because the WooCommerce importer reads fewer columns. A large blog adds time, since posts are pasted in.
| When | What you do |
|---|---|
| Day 1 | Start the trial, export from WordPress, import products. |
| Day 2 | Add SKUs and gallery images, fix handles to match slugs, check stock. |
| Day 3 | Create categories and assign products. Choose and style a theme. |
| Day 4 | Paste pages and blog posts, add policies, recreate coupons under Discounts. |
| Day 5 | Connect payments, set shipping zones and taxes, review order emails. |
| Day 6 | Place and refund test orders on the launchmystore.io address. |
| Day 7 | Point your domain, submit the sitemap, then cancel hosting once orders arrive. |
A sample plan, not a guarantee: it assumes one import file and a few dozen pages and posts.
Cost of switching
What does it cost to switch from WooCommerce to LaunchMyStore?
The move costs $0 during the 7-day trial, and premium themes are included. After that, compare your hosting and extension renewals with one plan: Gold is $840 a year billed yearly. On entry-level hosting a WooCommerce store can cost less in cash; LaunchMyStore's price also covers the updates, backups and security you'd otherwise do yourself.
A year on WooCommerce and on LaunchMyStore, in each example
List prices, platform fees and the paid apps needed to match what LaunchMyStore includes; card processing excluded on both. The tables under the chart show every line.
- WooCommerce
- LaunchMyStore
Example 1 · A simple store on entry-level hosting
Example 2 · Subscriptions in two languages
Example 3 · A busy store at the top of WooCommerce's hosting estimate
Example 1
A simple store on entry-level hosting
Hosting at the low end of WooCommerce's estimate, free plugins only. Under 100 products, no variants.
| Per year | WooCommerce | LaunchMyStore |
|---|---|---|
| Software | WooCommerce$0 (free plugin)10 | LaunchMyStore$288 (Starter) |
| Hosting | WooCommerce$300 ($25 × 12)2 | LaunchMyStoreIncluded |
| Updates and backups | WooCommerceYour time4 | LaunchMyStoreIncluded |
| Product reviews | WooCommerce$0 (in core)11 | LaunchMyStore$0 (Foundry Reviews) |
| Total | WooCommerce$300 + upkeep | LaunchMyStore$288 |
$12 less on LaunchMyStore, before counting the time WooCommerce updates take.
Example 2
Subscriptions in two languages
Entry-level hosting, WooCommerce Subscriptions and MultilingualPress. LaunchMyStore Gold, where subscriptions are included.
| Per year | WooCommerce | LaunchMyStore |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting | WooCommerce$3002 | LaunchMyStoreIncluded |
| Subscriptions | WooCommerce$279 (extension)5 | LaunchMyStoreIncluded on Gold and Platinum |
| Second language | WooCommerce$149 (MultilingualPress)6 | LaunchMyStoreIncluded (104 languages) |
| Plan | WooCommerce$0 | LaunchMyStore$840 (Gold) |
| Total | WooCommerce$728 + upkeep | LaunchMyStore$840 |
$112 more on LaunchMyStore in cash; WooCommerce still needs someone to run updates and backups.
Example 3
A busy store at the top of WooCommerce's hosting estimate
Hosting at $350/mo, the top of WooCommerce's own range, with the same two extensions. LaunchMyStore Platinum.
| Per year | WooCommerce | LaunchMyStore |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting | WooCommerce$4,200 ($350 × 12)2 | LaunchMyStoreIncluded |
| Extensions | WooCommerce$4285,6 | LaunchMyStoreIncluded |
| Plan | WooCommerce$0 | LaunchMyStore$1,584 (Platinum) |
| Total | WooCommerce$4,628 + upkeep | LaunchMyStore$1,584 |
$3,044 less on LaunchMyStore.
One-time costs of the move
- LaunchMyStore while you build
- $0 for the 7-day trial
- Theme
- $0: premium themes are included
- Overlap
- Your WordPress hosting until the domain switch, usually one more billing period
- Domain
- $0: it stays at your registrar; you only change DNS records
How we calculated this
- WooCommerce prices from woocommerce.com: the $25–$350 a month hosting estimate on its pricing page and yearly extension prices on its marketplace, checked November 2026. LaunchMyStore list prices from its pricing page.
- Card processing is left out of both columns: WooPayments charges 2.9% + $0.30 per US card,3 and on LaunchMyStore you pay your gateway's own rate, with 0% platform transaction fees on every plan.
- Like for like: WooCommerce's core already includes product reviews,11 so the only paid add-ons counted are the ones LaunchMyStore includes: Subscriptions and a translation plugin for a second language.5,6
- Selling in person: Woo POS is free in the Woo mobile app, with a $5-a-month card reader,12 while LaunchMyStore POS is included free on Platinum or $49 per store per month on Starter and Gold. For a shop counter, WooCommerce is the cheaper option.
- Time spent on updates, backups and security isn't priced. The public code FLAT20 takes 20% off any plan. The totals above use list prices.
- Run your own numbers in the ecommerce platform cost calculator, or see what each plan includes on the pricing page.
The honest part
When should you stay on WooCommerce?
Stay if your shop lives inside a WordPress site you're happy with, if you have a developer who wants server access, or if your catalog is larger than LaunchMyStore Platinum's 5,000 products. On entry-level hosting with free plugins only, WooCommerce can also cost less in cash, as example 1 shows.
- A WordPress content site where the shop is a small part.
- More than 5,000 products: WooCommerce has no product limit.
For the full feature-by-feature picture, read LaunchMyStore vs WooCommerce or compare every platform.
Questions about moving from WooCommerce
Can I import WooCommerce products into LaunchMyStore?
Yes. Export them with WooCommerce's built-in CSV exporter under Products → Export, then upload the file with LaunchMyStore's WooCommerce importer under Products → Bulk Upload Products. Simple and variable products, variations, prices, stock, tags and the first image come across. The importer is listed on Gold and Platinum.
Will my WooCommerce URLs still work after the move?
Not on their own. WooCommerce uses /product/slug/ and LaunchMyStore uses /products/handle, and there is no redirect manager yet. Keep each slug as the handle so only the prefix changes, submit your new /sitemap.xml to Google and Bing, and update the links you control, starting with your most-visited products.
What doesn't the WooCommerce importer bring across?
SKUs, categories, gallery images beyond the first, SEO plugin fields, grouped and external products, customers, orders and content. Add SKUs and images in the product editor, recreate categories with the same slugs, and paste posts and pages in. Blank stock cells become 10, so check quantities before you go live.
Can I move my WordPress blog to LaunchMyStore?
By copying the posts. WordPress exports posts and pages as an XML file under Tools → Export, which LaunchMyStore can't import, so paste each post into Appearance → Blogs. LaunchMyStore blog URLs look like /blogs/blog/post, so links to your old post URLs need updating where you control them.
Do I need WordPress hosting after moving to LaunchMyStore?
No. LaunchMyStore is hosted, so the plan covers hosting, updates, backups and security for the store. Keep your WordPress hosting until the domain points at LaunchMyStore and orders arrive, then cancel it. If the same server hosts your email, move the email first or leave the MX records where they are.
Which LaunchMyStore plan do I need to import from WooCommerce?
Gold or Platinum: the Shopify & WooCommerce importer is included on both. Gold is $70 a month billed yearly and holds 1,000 products; Platinum holds 5,000 products. Up to 100 products without variants can go in on Starter through LaunchMyStore's own CSV template.
Is LaunchMyStore cheaper than WooCommerce?
Sometimes. A simple WooCommerce store on $25-a-month hosting costs about $300 a year, close to Starter's $288. With Subscriptions and a translation plugin it reaches $728, a little under Gold's $840. On $350-a-month hosting it passes $4,628, well above Platinum. LaunchMyStore also covers the upkeep.
Sources
Where do these facts come from?
Every WooCommerce figure on this page comes from WooCommerce's own pricing or help pages, checked in November 2026 and numbered below. LaunchMyStore prices come from our pricing page, and what the importer, storefront and domain setup do was checked in LaunchMyStore's own code, not taken from marketing copy.
- 1.Product CSV Importer and Exporter (WooCommerce docs)
- 2.WooCommerce pricing (hosting estimate)
- 3.WooPayments fees (WooCommerce docs)
- 4.How to update WooCommerce (WooCommerce docs)
- 5.WooCommerce Subscriptions (WooCommerce Marketplace)
- 6.Translating WooCommerce (WooCommerce docs)
- 7.Customer / Order / Coupon Export (WooCommerce Marketplace)
- 8.Tools Export screen (WordPress.org documentation)
- 9.Permalinks (WooCommerce docs)
- 10.WooCommerce plugin (WordPress.org)
- 11.Product reviews (WooCommerce docs)
- 12.Woo POS
- 13.WooCommerce AI (WooCommerce Marketplace)
Plans and prices change. Confirm on WooCommerce's site before you decide, and tell us at [email protected] if something here is out of date.
Keep reading
- LaunchMyStore vs WooCommerceFeatures, fees and plans side by side with WooCommerce.
- Compare every platformShopify, WooCommerce, Wix, BigCommerce and Squarespace in one table.
- Plans and pricingStarter, Gold and Platinum, with every limit and feature.
- All LaunchMyStore featuresThemes, checkout, payments, AI, POS and apps.
- Ecommerce platform cost calculatorPut in your own sales and apps.
- Book a free demoBuilt around your products. We'll help you plan the move.
- Help: upload products in bulkEvery column of LaunchMyStore's CSV template.
- LaunchMyStore help centerSetup guides for domains, payments, shipping and more.
- Move from ShopifyThe closest match. Shopify's product CSV uploads as is, and /products/ and /collections/ links keep their paths.
- Move from WixYour Wix product export goes in through LaunchMyStore's CSV template. Pages and blog posts are rebuilt, and you can change themes later.
- Move from EtsyBring your listings across with the CSV template and keep Etsy running beside your own store, or leave it. Etsy's per-sale fees stop on your own site.
Build it on a free trial. Switch when it's ready.
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