We make Listify, so this article is written by the app you would be moving to. It focuses on the practical differences between the two products and on what we check before moving a Gift Reggie store.
It is not a general migration guide. The full process, from requesting an export to switching over, is in the Shopify gift registry migration checklist, and this article does not repeat it. What follows is only what is particular to Gift Reggie: the way the two apps handle the till, what its export tends to contain, and where each app is the better fit.
1. The main decision: how do you use POS?
This is the question that decides whether some Gift Reggie stores should move at all, so it comes first.
Gift Reggie and Listify both work with Shopify POS, but they support different in-store jobs.
With Gift Reggie, staff can help a customer build a registry in the shop. Products can be scanned onto the list at the counter, and registry purchases can be handled through POS.
With Listify, staff can find an existing registry at the till by name or by scanning the QR code on the guest's phone, tag the items in the basket to it and take payment, so the gift lands on the registry when the sale closes. Registries themselves are created and built by the customer, online or on their own phone, including in your shop by scanning a sign and then scanning shelf barcodes. Staff cannot build a registry for the customer at the till, and an offline till cannot look a registry up.
If your counter is mostly where guests come to buy a gift from a list, both apps cover that. If your counter is where couples sit down with a member of staff to build the list, Gift Reggie does that today and Listify does not, and nothing else in this article changes that.
2. Why a merchant might choose Listify
The two apps now support different kinds of registry programme. These are the differences that tend to matter to stores considering a move. You can evaluate Listify's storefront experience on the free plan; Shopify POS is available on the Pro plan.
Registry analytics in your Shopify admin. Active registries, registry and wishlist orders, revenue attributed to registries and unique visitors, with period-over-period comparison, on every plan including the free one. If "what are our registries worth to us" is currently answered by exporting orders and doing it by hand, this is the difference you will notice first.
A multilingual storefront. The registry and wishlist experience ships in your store's languages without a separate translation app, translations are included on every plan, and the Growth plan lets you rewrite the wording yourself.
Theme app block integration. Everything is placed from Shopify's theme editor, nothing is written into your theme's Liquid, and the panel is isolated from your theme's CSS so neither can break the other. Appearance settings live against your shop rather than your theme, so they follow you when you change theme. On older vintage themes that predate Online Store 2.0, the app generates a snippet for you to paste in instead.
A registry experience built for phones. Your registrants and their guests are on phones. So is your team when they check a list from the shop floor.
Guided setup. The app reads your live theme and reports which blocks are present and switched on, and links you into the theme editor with the app embed already enabled.
Registries and wishlists from one app. A saved item becomes a registry item later without the shopper starting again.
A hands-on migration. We move the registries with you from your export, and we check the catalog match, purchased quantities and existing links before anything is switched off.
POS for buying from a registry, as described above, on the Pro plan.
3. When Gift Reggie may remain the better fit
We would rather say this here than have you find it out in week two.
Staff-led registry creation. If your staff build lists with couples at the counter, Gift Reggie supports that workflow and Listify does not.
A long operating history. Gift Reggie has been on the App Store since 2014. An app that has been in production that long has met problems ours has not, and that is worth more the more unusual your store is.
Processes built around it. Stores that have run Gift Reggie for years often have staff routines, email templates and reporting habits shaped by it. Those have a cost to change that no feature list captures.
Integrations you depend on. Gift Reggie's listing declares Klaviyo and Langify integrations, and Shopify Flow and API access on its upper tiers. If something in your stack depends on one of these, confirm the equivalent exists before you move.
No specific problem to solve. If Gift Reggie already supports your workflow and you do not have a specific problem to solve, migration may create work without enough benefit. The right time to move is when there is a difference in section 2 you actually need.
4. What typically comes across
The useful thing about a Gift Reggie export is what it contains against each registry item. Gift Reggie's export includes both requested and purchased quantities. That gives us a stronger starting point for preserving the completion state of active registries than an export containing only products and requested quantities, which is what many other apps hand over.
| Data | Typical result from exports reviewed by Listify |
|---|---|
| Registry name and event details | Usually included |
| Registrant and co-registrant details | Usually included |
| Products and requested quantities | Imported when the product can be matched to your Shopify catalog |
| Purchased quantities | Included, so a registry that is half bought stays half bought |
| Shipping details | Depends on the export |
| Buyer and order details | Depends on the export |
| Registry passwords | Not imported into Listify; registrants set a new one |
| Item ordering and Gift Reggie-specific fields | May be normalised |
| Existing registry links | Kept working through a redirect file you import before uninstalling Gift Reggie |
A purchased count and a full purchase history are not the same thing. Purchase history means individual order records, with buyer, date and order number. Whether your export carries those or only a count per item is something we confirm from your particular file before promising anything about buyer details.
5. The catalog check
Even a complete Gift Reggie export does not guarantee every item can be imported. Each item has to match a purchasable variant in your Shopify catalog, and in migrations generally this is where a complete-looking export runs into items that match nothing in Shopify: products removed since the registry was created, variants that have changed, or items that were never in Shopify at all. Those items become catalog decisions before they become migration decisions: add the product, map it to an equivalent, or drop it from the registry.
This check is what sets the date, and it is the one we run before quoting one. The full explanation of how matching works and why a clean SKU is not enough is in the migration checklist.
6. Purchase progress on active registries
A registry that was sixty percent bought on Tuesday needs to be sixty percent bought on Wednesday, or guests who already bought get asked again and registrants email you. This is the customer-facing part of any migration, and it is the reason Gift Reggie's export matters.
Because Gift Reggie's export carries purchased quantities against each item, in-flight registries arrive at the completion state they were at, which in turn means you are less tied to a quiet month than a store moving from an app that exports only requested quantities. In Listify, purchased quantities are tied to order records, so where the export carries a count rather than the orders, we establish whether the purchases can be matched back to your Shopify order history before telling you what will be preserved.
7. Existing registry and wishlist links
A registry link your customer put on an invitation has your domain in it, but Gift Reggie serves it. Registries live at /apps/giftregistry/registry/ followed by the registry's ID, and that path stops resolving once Gift Reggie is removed. Listify keeps the Gift Reggie registry ID on each migrated registry and gives you a redirect file, one Shopify URL redirect per registry, so existing shopper links keep working. Import it while Gift Reggie is still installed; a link with no redirect behind it lands on a blank page after uninstall. The sequence, and what to check afterwards, is in the migration checklist.
8. How the move works
There is no self-serve importer. Every migration is run with you, from your export, while Gift Reggie stays installed and your registrants carry on using it.
- Install Listify and request the raw Gift Reggie export.
- Listify checks the fields, the catalog match, purchased quantities and the old link structure, and confirms the scope.
- Listify imports the registries and reports every exception: items that did not match, registries missing an email, purchases that could not be verified.
- You review and approve the result in your own admin before anything is switched over.
The detailed sequence, including the switch-over order and what to tell registrants, is in the migration checklist.
Common questions
- Can active Gift Reggie registries be moved?
- Yes, and it is the normal case. Because Gift Reggie's export carries purchased quantities, an in-flight registry arrives at the completion it was at, which is why a Gift Reggie store is less tied to a gap between seasons than most.
- Will purchased quantities remain correct?
- Yes. Purchased quantities come across with each item. Where the file carries purchase records, they come across; where it carries only a count, we check whether the purchases can be matched to your Shopify orders.
- Can staff still use Shopify POS?
- For selling from an existing registry, yes, on Listify's Pro plan. For building a registry with the customer at the till, no. See section 1.
- Will registrants need to do anything?
- Anyone who set a password on their registry will need to create a new one, and registrants sign in once to claim their migrated list. Their lists arrive built, with items and quantities intact.
- Must both apps remain installed temporarily?
- Yes. Gift Reggie stays installed until you have approved the migrated result, which is the part that makes the move safe. You will pay for both for the overlap. There is currently no extra charge for the migration itself.
- How long does the migration take?
- It depends on the export, the catalog match rate, how many registries have active purchases and the number of exceptions. We confirm the scope after reviewing the export, not before.
See what your Gift Reggie migration would involve
Both apps publish their current pricing on the Shopify App Store. Compare the plans against the number of active registries you expect to run, particularly during your busiest season: Gift Reggie and Listify.
Send us your export before uninstalling anything. We'll check the catalog match, purchased quantities, registry links and any fields that need attention, then explain the scope before you commit to moving. Get a migration assessment