Migrating from Shopify or Magento to Solidus: The Five Year Total Cost of Ownership
A worked five year cost model for owners who are paying more every month for a shop they do not own. What Shopify and Magento actually cost once apps, agency retainers, payment surcharges and forced upgrades are counted, what a Solidus build plus hosting and maintenance costs against that, and then the part nobody writes down: what a migration really involves, from the catalogue and the customer accounts you cannot move to the redirects, the payment tokens, the cutover and the rollback plan.