Migrations
Shopify App Migrations
Honest migration guides for switching from the most common Shopify competitor apps to BrandUp Factory apps. We tell you what changes, the concrete migration steps, and when staying put is actually the right call.
→ Section Store
6 migrationsPage Builder
From PageFly → Section Store
PageFly is a strong page builder but it ships with a third-party rendering runtime that adds measurable Core Web Vitals overhead on every page it touches.
Page Builder
From Shogun → Section Store
Shogun is enterprise-grade and excellent for what it does — page building with built-in A/B testing — but the enterprise pricing matches the enterprise positioning.
Page Builder
From GemPages → Section Store
GemPages has a strong AI-template-generation surface and a clean drag-and-drop UI, but like every visual page builder it carries a third-party rendering runtime that adds page-speed cost.
Sections Library
From Section Factory → Section Store
Section Factory and Section Store both ship native Shopify 2.
Sections Library
From Sectionly → Section Store
Sectionly's catalogue has historically been narrower than Section Store's, and like several other section libraries, theme-token inheritance varies by section rather than being the default.
Sections Library
From Magic Sections → Section Store
Magic Sections is a fine native Shopify 2.
→ Product Variants
3 migrationsBulk Data Toolkit
From Matrixify → Product Variants
Matrixify is excellent at what it does — CSV/Excel-driven bulk data work — but the workflow round-trip (export → edit in spreadsheet → import) is heavyweight for everyday in-admin bulk variant edits.
Bulk Variant Editor
From Bulk Variant Editor → Product Variants
SpurIT's Bulk Variant Editor is a long-standing Shopify bulk-edit tool with broad field coverage, but it operates on a spreadsheet-flavoured edit-and-save model — no real preview-and-commit diff view.
Custom Options
From Easify Product Options → Product Variants
Easify and Product Variants solve different problems entirely — Easify adds storefront-side custom options (engraving, file upload, custom dimensions); Product Variants is an admin-side bulk variant editor.
→ Index AI
5 migrationsClassic SEO
From Smart SEO → Index AI
Smart SEO is mature and excellent at classic on-page SEO — alt text automation, meta tag templating, sitemap hygiene.
Classic SEO
From Avada SEO → Index AI
Avada SEO is a broad Swiss-army-knife classic-SEO toolkit (alt text, image compression, meta tags, broken-link checker, basic Schema).
Classic SEO
From Plug in SEO → Index AI
Plug in SEO is a strong classic-SEO audit and content-quality tool — it flags missing alt text, weak titles, broken redirects, content issues.
Classic SEO
From Yoast for Shopify → Index AI
Yoast for Shopify carries the WordPress-Yoast heritage of per-page readability + focus keyword scoring + on-page meta tag editing.
AI SEO
From Arc llms.txt → Index AI
Arc llms.