Industries
Moving to Shopify, industry by industry
In short
The data-moving part of a migration looks the same everywhere. What differs by industry is the catalog shape and the rules around it: size runs in apparel, freight in furniture, ingredient and safety data in beauty and food, fitment in auto parts. These pages cover those differences.
Five industries
Shopify for apparel brands that sell to boutiques tooHow apparel brands run retail and wholesale on one Shopify store: size-color variants, size-run minimums, seasonal line sheets, prepacks and net terms.Shopify for auto parts sellers: fitment, catalog size and dealer pricingAuto parts on Shopify: year-make-model fitment from ACES data, PIES product attributes, large SKU counts and the variant limit, core charges and dealer pricing.Shopify for beauty and cosmetics brands with salon accountsBeauty and cosmetics brands on Shopify: salon and spa wholesale, shade variants, subscriptions vs B2B, and the MoCRA labeling and listing data your catalog should carry.Shopify for food and beverage brands with wholesale accountsFood and beverage brands on Shopify: case-pack wholesale, lot and expiry data, FSMA 204 traceability records, perishable shipping and grocery-buyer net terms.Shopify for home and furniture brandsRunning a furniture or home decor store on Shopify: freight and carrier rates by plan, trade-program pricing for designers, swatches, made-to-order lead times.
The one thing to check first
| Industry | Check before you move |
|---|---|
| Apparel | Products with more than 3 options or more than 2,048 variants |
| Home and furniture | Whether you need carrier-calculated freight rates, which depends on your Shopify plan |
| Beauty and cosmetics | Where ingredient lists and safety data will live (metafields, not description text) |
| Food and beverage | Subscriptions and wholesale in the same store: B2B checkout doesn't support subscriptions |
| Auto parts | How year/make/model fitment will be searched; Shopify has no native fitment table |
Not in the list?
These five cover most of the stores we see. If yours isn't here, the platform pages under Shopify migration services still apply, and the B2B section covers wholesale in any industry.
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