Changing Url structure to incorporate Woo Commerce

[KellyDSD86]

Advise needed please

We have rankings coming along nicely with a website that uses page content but we now need to start online shopping with woo commerce

The url structure has always been a bit of a mess, but its quite in depth

We are looking to move small paragraphs about each product cat (formerly put on Pages) information into the Product Category and then the Product information into the product page and redirect the old urls to the new urls.

It would mean updating the permalinks also -

My concern if there is less leverage with product categories - do these rank just as well as pages, are we going to see our rankings change dramatically in doing so?

Added to that - is it best doing this change gradually or all at once (like staging site to get the set up ready) and then pushing live