Migration proposal · Magento to Shopify

Where you are.
The plan.

For our call on Tuesday 27 October at 3pm. Launch: Tuesday 15 December 2026.

Two steps

By Friday 30 October, introduce us to your developers. By Friday 6 November, tell us you are happy to go ahead with Option B, Migration & Optimisation. The contract follows, and the first 50% is due only when you sign it.

Where you are

2,451

pages in your sitemap, and not one is a vehicle page. Yet 1,125 of your products name the vehicle they fit.

151,292

clicks from Google in 16 months, 68% from the UAE.

~1,000

pages earn clicks from Google, and we protect all of them. About 50 of those carry nearly all the revenue we can currently trace.

730

of 2,215 product pages (33%) are marked Coming Soon: live in search but not for sale, and each needs a decision.

The plan

  1. Migrate and protect, now to launchRedirects, structure, tracking and staging checks, so the 15 December launch keeps what already earns.
  2. Grow, from January 2027Content, technical SEO and authority on the new structure, reported against the baseline we captured before launch.
  3. Accelerate, laterMore markets, paid search and wider channels, each scoped separately once the foundations pay.
See the decisionSee the three migration optionsRecommended: Option B, £7,500 ≈ AED 36,700
What we heard

What you told us.

From our conversations with you and the team.

A partner you can rely on

Someone who takes ownership of the move and tells you plainly what is happening.

Answered under Options

A protected migration

The pages and rankings that earn today survive the move to Shopify.

Answered under Why now

Better conversion, for retail and trade

Product pages and journeys that turn visits into orders and workshop bookings, for both kinds of customer.

Answered under Options

A route into Arabic search

A plan for when and how, not a promise to do everything at once.

Answered under Markets

Commercial content, not volume

Pages written to sell and answer real buying questions, not to fill a blog.

Answered under Flexpress

Reporting you can trust

Revenue and enquiries first, with the limits of attribution stated plainly.

Answered under Reporting
Why now

Launch is in your strongest month on Google. The decisions that protect it are due in the next two weeks.

In December 2025 about 12,500 clicks reached you from Google, your strongest month in the 16 we looked at. About 9,000 clicks a month land on roughly 1,000 pages, and every one of them needs a correct redirect on 15 December. The redirects, the page structure and the templates are settled while your developers build, which is now. Settled in November, they cost a conversation. Found in January, they cost a rebuild.

39

days from 6 November to launch on 15 December

~1,000

pages to carry over, each with its own redirect

13 Nov

when your developers need our structure and access, to deliver everything in Option B by launch

Proof

What a staging audit finds before launch.

Two recent pieces of Searchflex work on Shopify stores. Client details are withheld. Both were rebuilds where not every old URL survived, and the staging audits found the gaps before launch. That is why options A, B and C include 1, 2 and up to 4 audits.

Retail store · Shopify to headless rebuild
337

of 1,788 live URLs were broken on the new build in our pre-launch comparison.

  • 43 of the broken URLs carried organic traffic, about 676 sessions a month
  • 176 collections loaded with no products
  • 161 returned 404
Fashion brand · three Shopify stores (US, UK, EU)
289

collections reviewed to decide what to keep, merge or remove.

  • 125 kept
  • 101 empty, to remove
  • 21 internal-only, to remove
  • 17 thin, to review · 25 missing from one store
Already found on your siteRamy Automotive · from our crawl of the 2,451 URLs in your sitemap
730

products are live in search but marked Coming Soon, and each needs a decision. Two more finds:

  • Every product page reports a rating of 1 from 0 reviews. A quick win: we correct it in the first week of work.
  • We also found at least 280 blog posts that are not in your sitemap, so Google has no list of them.
How it works

Three stages, one at a time.

Now to launch

Migration

We move your SEO assets safely, then improve the pages that matter most, depending on the option you choose.

Starts January 2027

Growth

Monthly work after launch on content, technical SEO and authority. Billed from January. No growth fees in November or December.

Later

Acceleration

Paid search and Shopping, Meta, digital PR, advanced conversion work and more markets, scoped separately.

Migration options

Choose how far we go before launch.

A one-off fee. 50% on signing and 50% at launch, or on 31 January 2027 if launch has not happened by then. If launch has not happened by 31 January, we agree the next step with you by 7 February. The contract is sent to whoever signs for Ramy. All fees in GBP, excluding VAT.

Option A

Essential Migration

We migrate and protect what you have. Your URLs, redirects, metadata, tracking and technical checks, with one check on a test copy of the new site.

£5,000≈ AED 24,450
Option BRecommended

Migration & Optimisation

We migrate and improve your most important pages. Your earning pages carried over safely. Your site restructured around how people search for 4x4 parts and vehicles. Your 500 priority products and your existing collections rewritten from your own product data with Flexpress (our product-data writing process, explained below), and a person checking every revenue page and collection. Two checks on a test copy of the new site before launch, and 45 days of monitoring after it.

£7,500≈ AED 36,700
Option C

International Growth Launch

The UAE launches on 15 December, with the fullest programme. Everything in B, plus double the product copy (1,000 priority products against 500) and ten times the enhanced content (1,000 products each read and checked by a person, against 100), up to 6 templates, weekly developer sessions, up to 4 checks on the new site, 60 days of monitoring, the vehicle finder and deeper vehicle and brand pages. Saudi Arabia and Oman are researched before launch and set up once demand is proven, and an Arabic research and localisation pilot is included. Much of it follows launch.

£15,000≈ AED 73,350

Why B rather than A. A moves what you have and checks it once. For £2,500 more, B adds a second check on the new site, 45 days of monitoring instead of 30, a structure designed around how your customers search, and new copy for 500 products and your collections instead of 100 and 25. Why not C. C roughly doubles the content programme and adds the vehicle finder, deeper vehicle pages and the international work, much of it after launch. It suits a business that wants all of that in one go. B suits a safe UAE launch that already improves the pages that earn.

The difference at a glance

AB RecommendedC
What it protectsYour earning pagesYour earning pagesYour earning pages
What it improvesNothing newStructure, 500 products, all existing collectionsEverything in B, plus 1,000 priority products and international structure
Checks on a test copy before launch12Up to 4
Monitoring after launch30 days45 days60 days
See the full scope, before and after launch
A · EssentialB · Optimisation RecommendedC · International
Fee£5,000 ≈ AED 24,450£7,500 ≈ AED 36,700£15,000 ≈ AED 73,350
Before launch · delivered by 15 December
Keyword researchExisting priority pagesFull commercial researchPlus Saudi Arabia and Oman research
ArchitectureExisting hierarchy reviewedRedesigned, keyword-led, with new pagesAs B, agreed with your developers
Design and UX1 review roundUp to 3 templates, 2 rounds; 2 wireframesUp to 6 templates, 2 rounds; 4 wireframes
Developer sessionsHandoverFortnightlyWeekly, plus sprint reviews
Checks on a test copy of the new site12Up to 4
TrackingPreserve core trackingAudit, rebuild spec, 6 hours of remediationPlus consent review, 12 hours of remediation
Markets set upReadiness reviewUAEUAE
FlexpressMetadata for the full eligible catalogueMetadata for the full eligible catalogue, plus your top revenue pagesMetadata for the full eligible catalogue, plus your top revenue pages
Safety net after launch30 days45 days60 days
After launch · to 31 March 2027, within the same fee
Flexpress: product copyPriority 100Priority 500Priority 1,000
Flexpress: enhanced contentNot includedTop 100 products, each read and checked by a personAll 1,000 priority products, each read and checked by a person
Flexpress: collectionsPriority 25All approved existing (105 category pages today)Plus priority new collections
Flexpress: brand pagesNot includedTop 10 brandsAll eligible brands (107 brand pages today)
Vehicle and brand depthNot includedNot includedDeeper vehicle and brand combinations, and the vehicle finder
Saudi Arabia and OmanNot includedNot includedSet up once demand is proven
ArabicOptional add-onOptional add-onResearch and localisation pilot included

Before-launch work assumes structure decisions and developer access by Friday 13 November. Quantities are as listed unless we agree a change with you in writing before you sign. Safety net: for the period shown after launch we monitor rankings, errors and redirects, and fix issues the migration caused. Enhanced content is a fuller product page, with each one read and checked by a person. The eligible catalogue is the products, collections and brands that stay live on the new site after the decision on the 730 Coming Soon products. Today that is up to 2,215 products, 105 category pages and 107 brand pages.

Included in every option

Flexpress

We don't just move your catalogue, we improve it.

Flexpress is our process for writing and updating product data and descriptions at scale from your own product data, with a person checking every revenue page.

What you get, and when

  • Metadata and your top revenue pages are written before launch.
  • The rest, marked "after launch" in the options table, follows in batches to 31 March 2027, already paid for within the migration fee.
  • We commit to producing content by each milestone. Publishing depends on your development agency's import schedule and your approvals.

How we keep it accurate

  • Flexpress never invents specifications or fitment.
  • Every fitment claim is checked against your own product data. If it isn't in the data, it isn't written.
  • Every revenue page and collection is reviewed by a person. The rest is sampled.
Reporting

What the work earned, not how busy we were.

Before we report anything, we fix what it is measured with. At the moment GA4 can tie only about a fifth of your revenue to a page or channel. Until that is fixed, we report against the part it can see, and tell you what it cannot. Every piece of completed work is logged in a register you can read. Below is the layout, with your real baseline where we have it. Results fill in from launch.

Illustration, example entries, not results

Monthly report

MeasureBaselineThis month
Organic revenueBaseline set from GA4Reported after launch
EnquiriesWorkshop and trade, from launchReported after launch
Google clicks9,620 (Sep 2026)Reported after launch
Non-brand clicksBaseline set from Search ConsoleReported after launch
Protected pagesAbout 50 priority pages, within about 1,000 earning pagesStatus of each
Illustration, example entries, not results

Register of completed work

DateWorkPage or area
ExampleRedirect map approvedAll old URLs
ExampleRating markup removedProduct pages
ExampleCollection copy publishedWrangler suspension
Your investment

Approving B commits you to £7,500.

Recommended choices are selected. Prices are in pounds, excluding VAT, with the dirham value beside them at £1 = AED 4.89. Items priced on request never appear in a total. This is a calculator, not an order.

What to include
Migration option
Growth package
Commitment
Add-ons, priced on request
Your route

If you want to see how it adds up

RouteMigration feeOn signingAt launchTotal

Growth is billed monthly from the month it starts, targeted for January 2027. All fees in GBP, excluding VAT.

The decision

Two steps to start.

By Friday 30 October

Introduce us to your developers

Redirect priorities and collection structure need agreeing with them before they build. A name and a date is all we need. They will need to hear from us by 13 November for everything in Option B to land by launch.

RecommendedBy Friday 6 November

Tell us you are happy to go ahead with Option B

Option B, Migration & Optimisation, at £7,500 ≈ AED 36,700. We then send the contract, with the scope above, to whoever signs for Ramy. The first 50% (£3,750 ≈ AED 18,350) is due only when you sign it. If 6 November is not possible, tell us: each week of delay shortens the time for redirects and checks on the new site.

What happens after you say yes

After the decision · growth packages from January 2027

Monthly work that builds on the migration.

After launch: content, technical SEO and authority on the new structure. Target start January 2027, with nothing billed in November or December. 6-month minimum, 12 months preferred.

FoundationsEcommerce Growth RecommendedMarket Leadership
Fee£2,500 a month ≈ AED 12,250£3,500 a month ≈ AED 17,100£5,000 a month ≈ AED 24,450
ServicesContent and technical SEO. Moves from content to link building after 6 months.Content, technical SEO and authority building, including being recommended by AI assistantsContent, technical SEO, authority, international and conversion work
CallsMonthlyFortnightlyWeekly
ReportingMonthly reportEnhanced: plus results by engine and a live dashboardAdvanced: plus results by market and a quarterly strategy review

Content

New products, new collections and vehicle pages, existing collections, commercial guides and blog refreshes, and workshop and trade pages. New work only: we never rewrite what Flexpress has already rebuilt.

Technical SEO

Monitoring, fixes passed to your developers, and AI search visibility.

Link building

From Ecommerce Growth up. Quality over volume, pointed at the commercial pages.

International

Market Leadership only: Saudi Arabia and Oman, and an Arabic programme. Arabic stays an add-on for the other packages.

In every package

How the commitment discount works

Our standard terms: 10% off for 12 months, 5% off for 6 months. For Ramy the discount is a credit against the migration's launch payment, so the monthly growth fee stays the same. If the credit is larger than the launch payment, the rest comes off your first growth invoice. If a commitment ends early the credit is repayable, as set out in the contract.

Package6 months (5%)12 months (10%)
Foundations£750£3,000
Ecommerce Growth£1,050£4,200
Market Leadership£1,500£6,000

If launch has not happened by 31 January, the next step is a defined pre-launch programme or a later start, agreed with you by 7 February.

Languages and markets

The UAE first. The Gulf next.

The UAE is the focus now. Your own Search Console data shows where demand is: over 16 months, 68% of clicks came from the UAE, 6% from Saudi Arabia and 4% from Oman.

Now

UAE

Set up and optimised in options B and C.

Next

Saudi Arabia and Oman

Researched in option C, and set up once demand is proven.

Arabic

A separate option with any migration package: Flexpress content, review by a native Arabic speaker, checks that the Arabic layout reads correctly, and language tags so Google shows the right version. Option C includes the research and localisation pilot. Priced on request until costed.

Add-ons, priced on request

Extra Flexpress batches, additional markets, a workshop sprint, a trade sprint, a conversion design sprint, a tracking sprint and Shopify development hours. Later: paid search and Shopping, Meta, digital PR, advanced conversion work and more markets, scoped separately.