"If I am switching my site over to your shopping cart, how can I be sure I don't hurt my existing rankings ?"

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Short Answer:

You will need to add permanent redirects in your .htaccess file redirecting your old pages to your new pages, otherwise, the search engines sill no longer be able to find your old pages and your rankings may drop; at least until the search engines can find the new pages (typically, a few months for larger stores).

Detailed Explanation:

Since this how-to falls outside the scope of the knowledge-base, you may find helpful information using your favorite search engine.  Permanent redirects are also called 301 redirects (not to be confused with a 302 redirect).

1. Look in your website's public (e.g. public_html, or www) folder for a file called .htaccess; yes, there is a period in front.
2. download and edit this file.  If you are using our shopping cart software, then chances are, you already have the first part of the file setup which should have:

   RewriteEngine onOptions +FollowSymLinks

3. Then underneath that (anywhere you like) you need to setup a redirect for each page that you want to forward.

   RewriteRule ^old-file.html$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/new-file.html [R=301,L]

4. That rule should all be on one line, and each rule goes on a new line.  You I also used .html as the filename, but if your extension was .htm, .php or anything else, you would of course use that instead.  But notice the backslash:  .html    It usually works without it, but typically its best to have that backslash appear before any periods, ONLY on the old pages though (the left side of the rule that is).
5. This can be a time consuming process if you have a lot of links, but well worth it for online retailers; at least to point their most important pages.