ProductCart support ends January 11, 2027

ProductCart to Shopify Migration

Move your store to Shopify before the shutoff — with your products, customers, order history, and Google rankings intact.

ProductCart runs on Classic ASP and Windows/IIS. After January 11, 2027 there are no more security patches — which puts your PCI compliance, your payment gateway, and your store’s uptime at risk. I move ProductCart stores to Shopify end to end: every product, customer, and past order carried across, and every old .asp URL redirected so your search rankings come with you. 20+ years in e-commerce. You work with the developer who does the migration — not a support queue.

Shopify Partner · 20+ years building and migrating online stores · A few of the largest ProductCart hosts send their migrations to us.

Not sure where to start? Ask the Migration Guide

Straight answers about moving off ProductCart — what transfers, how long it takes, and whether your Google rankings survive. Then talk to GMK Web Solutions.

What the January 11, 2027 end-of-life actually means for your store

Source: the official ProductCart sunset FAQ · Last reviewed September 2026

Related: ProductCart end-of-life — what to do · run a free site check

ProductCart is built on Classic ASP running on Windows and IIS. When end-of-life hits, the platform stops receiving security patches. Here’s what that puts at risk, in plain terms:

You don’t have to move on January 10. But every month you wait shortens the runway for a careful migration and lengthens the window where your store is exposed. Starting now means it happens on your schedule, not in a scramble.

Why Shopify — and when it isn’t the right answer

For most ProductCart merchants, Shopify is the cleanest landing spot: it’s hosted, PCI-compliant out of the box, and it removes the whole Windows/ASP/patching burden you’re leaving behind. You stop maintaining infrastructure and get back to selling. I’m a Shopify Partner, and it’s where most of these migrations should go.

But I’ll give you the honest read, because it isn’t always Shopify:

• WooCommerce can make sense if you want full control, a content-heavy site, or you’re already living in WordPress.
• BigCommerce can fit large catalogs or B2B rules that would need heavy app stacking on Shopify.
• Shopify wins for most small-to-mid ProductCart stores that want the least maintenance and the fastest, safest exit.

I do all three. The audit comes first, then I recommend the platform that fits your catalog and how you actually run the business. See migration services and Shopify development.

What actually moves

A real migration is more than a product spreadsheet. Here’s what I carry from ProductCart into Shopify:

One honest note on what can’t come across: customer passwords can’t be exported from any platform. On launch, customers get a one-time invite to set a new password — I set that up so the handoff is smooth and nobody’s locked out.

Keeping your Google rankings through the move

This is where most migrations quietly lose traffic — the store looks fine, but the old URLs 404 and the rankings you spent years earning evaporate. I don’t let that happen.

• A complete .asp URL → Shopify redirect map, generated from the same handle routine used to build the new products, so every redirect actually matches its target.
• Meta titles and descriptions carried over, not reset to Shopify defaults.
• A 30-day Search Console watch after launch — I monitor coverage and 404s and fix anything that slips.

More on how I protect search equity through a platform change: preventing SEO data loss in a migration.

How the migration runs

A tight, parallel process — not a months-long project:

1. Quick audit (a few days). I map your catalog, data, custom ASP features, and URLs and give you a firm, fixed-price quote fast — usually within a business day of our call.

2. Build + data migration, in parallel (about a week). Once the audit is done, the Shopify build and your data export run at the same time — not one after the other. Theme timing flexes a little with revisions.

3. Test & parallel run. We verify data, checkout, payments, shipping, and tax against your live store before anything switches.

4. Cutover. Redirects go live with the new store — minimal-to-no selling downtime.

After launch I keep a 30-day watch on rankings, redirects, and checkout. That is aftercare — you are already live and selling.

Most migrations wrap in about two to three weeks. Up against the January deadline? Rush service is available — tell me your timeline and I will tell you straight whether we can hit it.

What it costs

ProductCart to Shopify migrations start at $4,000. What moves the number: how many SKUs you have, whether you use configurator/option products, and how many custom ASP features need rebuilding.

You get a firm, fixed-price quote within a day of the audit — no open-ended hourly surprises. That’s a real range on a real page, which is more than most migration shops will put in writing.

Real ProductCart migrations, not theory

We move real ProductCart stores to Shopify — including Beck Electric Supply — with several more in transition right now. You are not the test case.

You talk to the developer who does the work

GMK Web Solutions has spent 20+ years building and migrating online stores, with deep, long-standing ProductCart experience — Classic ASP carts known from the inside, which is exactly what a clean export depends on. The last several years have focused on migrations: ProductCart, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and others onto Shopify.

There’s no account manager and no hand-off. You work directly with the developer, start to finish — and when something needs a decision, you’re talking to the person who actually built it.

ProductCart migration questions

Free 20-minute ProductCart migration assessment

Tell me about your store and I’ll tell you what a clean move to Shopify looks like — timeline, what moves, and a firm price. No pressure, no jargon.