From an AI-built shop to WooCommerce: a technical migration guide
Moving products, categories, checkout and payments from an AI-generated storefront to WooCommerce without losing sales or SEO.
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What an AI storefront usually is
Shops generated with AI builders are typically a product grid and detail pages rendered in React, with a cart kept in the browser and checkout delegated to a hosted payment page. Product data often lives in a JSON file, a database table or an external service. A page converter brings over the visible catalogue and design, but the cart, checkout and order handling are application logic and are rebuilt in WooCommerce.
Importing the catalogue
Export products to CSV with name, slug, description, price, sale price, SKU, stock, categories, attributes and image URLs. WooCommerce's built-in importer maps these columns directly and downloads the images into the media library. Variable products, such as sizes and colours, need attributes defined first and one row per variation. Keep product slugs identical to the old URLs, and set the product permalink base so the path matches as closely as possible.
Checkout, payments and tax
Install an official payment gateway extension for your provider, for example Stripe, PayPal or Mollie, and test with sandbox keys before going live. Configure tax classes and rates per country, shipping zones and methods, and transactional emails. Card data stays with the payment provider, so the shop never stores card numbers. Test the full flow: add to cart, coupon, checkout, payment success, payment failure and refund.
Performance and SEO for shops
Exclude cart, checkout and account pages from full-page caching, but cache every product and category page. Add Product structured data with price and availability through an SEO plugin, and keep category descriptions unique rather than repeating the same text. Redirect discontinued products to their closest category with a 301 instead of leaving 404 errors.