Field notes

Engineering notes from real merchant work. No listicles.

MAGENTO 2SHOPIFYconfigurable + simple productsproducts with options + variantscategories (tree)collections (flat) + menuscustomerscustomerscustomer passwordscannot moveinvite to set a new passwordorder historyimported orders (read-only)URL pathsnew paths + 301 redirects

2026-09-04 / 6 min read

Magento 2 to Shopify: what moves, what does not

A plain map of the migration: products, customers, orders, URLs. What moves cleanly, and the one thing that cannot move.

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BEFOREchatemailreviewspushpageusable ~5sAFTERpageusable ~1sfirst tapchatemailreviewspush0s8s

2026-09-04 / 6 min read

Delay Shopify third-party scripts until first interaction

Make a store fast when the theme is not the problem: hold chat, email, and notification scripts until the shopper moves. With code.

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