Matrixify Shopify Experts for Imports & Migrations

Migrations onto Shopify. The largest jobs. Products, collections, customers, orders, pages, blog posts and redirects each arrive through their own sheet, so the real work is turning another platform's export into Matrixify's columns and keeping old URLs alive through the Redirects sheet. SEO-sensitive moves like this are where an expert earns their fee.

Bulk updates. Prices, inventory and metafields across a whole catalogue from one file. The same import that creates products can overwrite existing ones, which is why a careful expert always runs a test file first.

Customers and orders. Customer records and order history come across separately from the catalogue. Experts usually sequence them, products and customers before orders, so every imported order points at records that already exist.

B2B data. The Companies sheet loads company locations, their assigned catalogues and payment terms in bulk, which beats building wholesale accounts by hand one at a time.

Scheduled jobs. Matrixify can schedule and auto-repeat imports and exports: timed sales, stock updates from a supplier file on an FTP/SFTP server, regular exports for reporting. Experts document these so the next person knows they exist.

Backups and store copies. Backup, restore and store-to-store copy cover staging stores, new regional stores and a safety net before big changes. Translations, menus, metaobjects and files have sheets too, which matters for international setups.

AI agents. Matrixify now offers an MCP server that connects AI assistants and agents to the app on your store. Ask any expert who suggests it how they'd limit what an agent is allowed to change.

Five of the six badge holders are freelancers, and data work often suits one careful person. Still, test how someone handles a live catalogue before giving them one.

Ask for their test routine. A good Matrixify expert imports a small sample first, checks the results in your admin, and only then runs the full file. Ask exactly what they check before scaling up.

Ask how they'd undo a mistake. Matrixify can back up and restore data. Anyone touching thousands of records should take a backup export first and tell you where it's kept.

Probe migration experience. Ask them to describe the data quirks they hit on their last migration and how they mapped old URLs to redirects. Vague answers here predict trouble on launch day.

Trusted Matrixify Experts. The Matrixify team publishes a Trusted Matrixify Experts list of agencies and freelancers it has worked with on many jobs. If that endorsement matters to you, check whether a candidate appears there.

Red flags. No sample run, no backup, templates built on the deprecated Smart Collections or Custom Collection sheets, or a migration quote given without seeing your data.

One paid job before the big one. A bulk price or metafield update on one collection, delivered with before-and-after exports, shows how someone treats live data.

API call limits. Matrixify runs inside Shopify Admin and works within Shopify's API call limits, so very large imports take real time. Plan cut-over windows with that in mind. The Enterprise plan adds batch import and parallel threads for the biggest jobs.

Per-file plan limits. The free plan handles 10 items of each type per file: enough to test a template, nowhere near enough to migrate. Paid plans raise the per-file caps on products and collections, so check yours before the job, not halfway through it.

Deprecated sheets. The Smart Collections and Custom Collection sheets are deprecated, and current imports use the Collections sheet. Old templates passed around between teams often still use the retired ones.

File size and sources. Files can reach 20GB, but manual uploads stop at 5GB. Bigger jobs load from a URL, an FTP/SFTP server, cloud storage or a Google Sheets link instead.

B2B structure. Shopify caps how many locations and customers a company can have, and Matrixify's Companies sheet respects those caps. Large wholesale accounts may need restructuring before import.

Old name, old guides. Matrixify used to be called Excelify. Tutorials written under that name can describe sheets and columns that have since changed, so check them against the current documentation.

Development dominates the Matrixify badge: five of the six profiles offer it, and four cover store setup and management. That suits work that's technical and detail-heavy.