Copying products between Shopify stores comes up often. You might be expanding to a new market, migrating to a fresh domain, or testing changes in a staging environment before they touch your live store.
Why merchants clone products between stores
Some common reasons:
- Launch region-specific stores with localized pricing while keeping the same product catalog across markets.
- Test product configurations or store designs in a staging environment before touching your live store.
- Transfer entire product catalogs when rebranding or spinning off a product line into its own store.
- Share products across separate Shopify stores for different brands in your portfolio.
- Keep a backup store or restore product data if something goes wrong.
Methods to copy products
Using Shopify’s built-in Export Tool
If you have admin access to both stores, Shopify’s native export/import feature can work for basic product transfers:
- Export products as a CSV file from your source store
- Download and review the CSV to ensure all product data is included
- Import the CSV file into your destination store
Pros:
- Always works and built directly into Shopify
- No additional tools or subscriptions needed
- Reliable and officially supported
Limitations:
- Requires admin access to both stores
- Images must be manually uploaded or linked via URL
- Doesn’t preserve all metadata and SEO settings
- Time-consuming for large catalogs
- Prone to formatting errors with variants and options
Using browser extensions
Browser extensions like Shopify Spy can extract product data from any Shopify store.
Pros:
- Extremely fast extraction
- Can handle massive stores with millions of SKUs
- Works on any public Shopify store
Limitations:
- Requires installing browser extensions
- Manual process for copying product information
- Need to create CSV files for import
- Additional work to handle images and variants properly
Using Shopify apps
Dedicated apps from the Shopify App Store handle the whole process for you.
Pros:
- Integrated directly into your Shopify admin
- Built specifically for Shopify product cloning
- No technical knowledge required
- Automated image handling
- Preserves all product data and metadata
- Works without admin access to source stores
- Supports bulk operations for large catalogs
Apps like Clonely let you clone products using just a URL.
Why Clonely
Clonely works on any public Shopify store, so you don’t need admin access or credentials for the source. Just paste a URL.
Everything runs inside your Shopify admin, so there’s no separate tool to juggle. For large imports, Clonely processes products in the background and pauses automatically if Shopify’s rate limits kick in, then picks back up when they reset.
All product data transfers: images, variants, options, SEO fields, and descriptions. Paste a product or collection URL and click clone.
What Clonely can clone
- Individual products from any public Shopify store URL
- Entire collections in one action
- Full store catalogs for migrations or backups
- Product images, automatically matched to the right variants
- Variant structure, exactly as it appears in the source
- SEO data: meta titles, descriptions, and URL handles
- Free plan available; Pro unlocks unlimited cloning
Get started
Get Clonely on the Shopify App Store
Paste a URL, click clone.