Redirect management for cleaner storefront migrations

Move a storefront URL without losing the next click

Storefront URLs change for good reasons: a product gets a clearer name, a collection is reorganised, or an old campaign needs a reliable home. Redirect management gives that change a deliberate place in Stoify instead of leaving shoppers with a dead link or asking a developer to edit deployment config.

Each rule belongs to one site and matches an exact normalised path. Choose a permanent 301 when search engines and bookmarks should follow the move, or a temporary 302 when the original route may return later.

Point to the right destination

Destinations can be another storefront path such as /collections/summer or an absolute http or https URL. Unsafe schemes, credentials in URLs, malformed values, self-redirects, duplicate sources, and direct two-rule loops are rejected before a rule is saved.

That keeps the redirect list useful as an operational record. A merchant can search the old path or destination, understand where it goes, and update the rule without guessing which site it belongs to.

Schedule the move and its end

Scheduled rules wait for a future UTC start time before they handle requests. Active and scheduled rules can also have an optional expiry, which is useful for campaign paths and short-lived launch routes. The daily maintenance job transitions due rules, while request-time checks keep a late job from making a redirect effective too early or active beyond its expiry.

Keep useful query context

Query-string preservation is enabled by default. Incoming parameters can be carried to the destination so campaign tags, referral context, or a shopper’s selected filters do not disappear during the move. Turn it off when the target should receive only its clean path.

Redirect management is available from Settings → Modules. Read the redirect management launch post for the workflow behind the module.