eCommerce Data Migration Services
Transferring data from one eCommerce website to another requires a thorough and meticulous process. It includes the transfer of product images and attributes, customer and order history data, cloud storage, SEO data, 3rd party integrations and workflows, and more. If you’re considering a data migration, it’s likely because your business is growing and you need to expand with it. However, it’s important to remember that the process of a data migration cannot be taken lightly. Poorly planned and executed data movements from one place to another could result in a loss of all the data you’ve worked hard to collect which could lead to poor website performance after the migration.
MAK Digital Design Agency offers top-notch eCommerce migration services that will export your current data (including but not limited to on-page content, reviews, and blogs), restructure the data to ensure optimal performance, clean the data to ensure there is no duplicate, outdated, or incorrect data, and then, finally, import your newly organized data into your new target system and implement testing to ensure proper data integration, 301 redirects, URL structure, and more.
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Platform migrations occur for many reasons. Perhaps your current platform limits the growth of your online business, or maybe, with an increase in customer data, you are finding that your website is outdated, slow-performing, functions poorly or doesn’t offer the kind of shopping experience your customers want. Whatever the reason, your search for a better platform makes it clear to you that your business needs a change in order to continue to succeed online. To complete a successful platform migration, or replatforming, you’re going to need a team that can help migrate all of your files, products, customer data, and more to your new destination. MAK Digital Design Agency is that team. We’ve conducted hundreds of successful platform migrations for a variety of eCommerce businesses on big-name platforms like BigCommerce, Shopify Plus, Magento, Volusion, and more.
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eCommerce Data Migration Services
Transferring data from one eCommerce website to another requires a thorough and meticulous process. It includes the transfer of product images and attributes, customer and order history data, cloud storage, SEO data, 3rd party integrations and workflows, and more. If you’re considering a data migration, it’s likely because your business is growing and you need to expand with it. However, it’s important to remember that the process of a data migration cannot be taken lightly. Poorly planned and executed data movements from one place to another could result in a loss of all the data you’ve worked hard to collect which could lead to poor website performance after the migration.
MAK Digital Design Agency offers top-notch eCommerce migration services that will export your current data (including but not limited to on-page content, reviews, and blogs), restructure the data to ensure optimal performance, clean the data to ensure there is no duplicate, outdated, or incorrect data, and then, finally, import your newly organized data into your new target system and implement testing to ensure proper data integration, 301 redirects, URL structure, and more.
eCommerce Website Migration Services
Unlike a platform migration or a data migration, a website migration usually involves changing URLs, changing domain names, merging websites, switching from HTTP to HTTPS, optimizing the URL structure and/or website architecture, and more. An unplanned or improper site migration plan can result in heavy data loss and operational system failure that results in a significant drop in rankings. To avoid any of the issues that could evolve from a website migration, it’s important to have migration experts that can address every step of a migration process from planning, prepping, testing, and launching to reviewing and fixing any bugs or issues that might pop up. MAK Digital Design Agency has led countless migration projects to success by following a proven step-by-step plan that carefully, diligently, and expertly handles all aspects of an eCommerce website migration.
A Proven Track Record with Migration
No matter how many times you’ve performed a data migration (trust us, we’ve done quite a few), unexpected twists and turns are bound to arise. Every system of data exhibits little idiosyncrasies, such as a unique naming scheme here or a set of duplicate products there. The advantage of working with an agency, like MAK, that’s experienced in platform and data migrations, is that we see those issues coming from a mile away. An automatic migration program will just dump your data into the new platform, and if something doesn’t fit quite right, that’s a shame. You get what you get, and you’ll need to fix it later. Our migration scripts, however, are set up manually by our developers after taking the time to investigate your data. We’ll let you know if there’s an issue with the way your data is configured, so we can fix it before you end up on your new platform with half the information you thought you had.
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The Most Accurate Data Migration
Every platform is a little different. Data will rarely align perfectly between two different systems, but you can mitigate those changes if you’re smart about it. That’s where a professional data migration agency, like MAK Digital Design, comes in. We can create custom fields or rename certain values to make sure that all your data finds a new home in your new system. Your new platform won’t be exactly like your old one, but with a little effort, your data will stay familiar and accessible.
If your platform can no longer offer the support and functionality your online business needs to grow, it may be time to look elsewhere.
An eCommerce platform migration may be able to solve some of your current problems, but migration comes with risk and some of these risks involve the issues of data security and data loss. Information like product data, customer data, and order history data are all critical to the operation and success of your eCommerce business. Without them, customers would come to your site one day and be greeted by an error – that’s not good for user experience.
The issues that can arise from data management are innumerable. Every platform is a little different from the next. Without careful planning and delivering the right data migration processes, data will not fit or synchronize perfectly when making the switch from one system to another. Issues that might arise from an eCommerce site migration, however, can be mitigated if careful and thorough planning and consideration.
That’s where a professional data migration agency, like MAK Digital Design, comes in. Our processes are proven, effective, and thorough. It’s no secret that we’ve performed hundreds of successful site migrations over the years that include creating custom fields and customer groups, search tool functionality, retail and B2B pricing, subscription boxes, and more. An upgraded platform will be able to offer your website additional functionality over your old platform, and with some help from the professionals at MAK, all of your data will end up right where it needs to be and exactly how it should.
Initial Data Transfer
The majority of your data will go into your new platform while we’re working on the design and development of your new site. This saves everyone a lot of time because our migration scripts can run in the background while we focus on other things. Once the data has fully migrated you’ll be able to check it out and see how it fits into the backend of your new eCommerce platform. You’ll be able to take a second look at how your data fits into the frontend after the new site design has been migrated as well. At each stage, we’ll be able to do a thorough double-check to make certain that all the data has found a new place to live on both the backend and frontend of your new eCommerce site.
Pre-Launch Data Resync
A new site redesign, on a new platform, can take weeks or months. We would never ask you to stop running your business, or run it with one hand tied behind your back, while we work. Instead, we include a complimentary data re-sync as part of every data migration we do. You can continue to update products, prices, and categories after we’ve taken your data. You will most certainly take more orders and get more customers during that time. Just before launch, we’ll simply resync the changes that have been made on to the data in the live store during development. That way your data remains as current as possible when you launch your new eCommerce store.
301 Redirects & Google Search Console Support
When you change platforms your URLs will change ever so slightly, even when you keep the same domain. As part of our platform migrations, we include a 301 redirect. 301 Redirects are kind of like giving Google your website’s forwarding address. We’ll let them know that, even though your URLs may look different, they should still confer all the domain authority and positive rankings onto your new site that they did on your old one. 301 Redirects are an essential part of any platform to platform migration.
Keep Your Data and Your Custom Functionality
Your data isn’t the only thing that might have to change to fit in nicely with your new eCommerce platform. If you’ve had custom elements designed for your current store, chances are good they won’t interact the exact same way when integrated into the new eCommerce system. When a client comes to us with a lot of custom functionality and they want to change platforms, we roll up our sleeves and get to work. We identify each piece of non-standard functionality on your store and figure out how best to rebuild it to work with your new eCommerce platform. With the help of a professional data migration agency, you can have your new eCommerce platform and keep your current customizations too.
Accounting for data management is critical to a successful migration, but data is not the only thing that needs to transfer across the platforms smoothly. Any custom design elements that were created for your online store, or even apps or other custom developed features, may not interact with the new platform exactly as they did on the old one.
No two websites are the same, no two platforms are the same, and no two eCommerce migrations are the same. It takes a little ingenuity and a lot of hard work to identify each element of non-standard functionality on your website. At MAK Digital Design, we identify how to integrate this functionality with your new store before we even begin the process of data transfer and migration. It’s critical that all design elements, applications, and data integrate well into your new platform to ensure that it is ready to roll once it goes live.
Our process is proven by results, and there’s no reason to go through with a platform or data migration project if you can’t even keep the custom functionality on your online store. As a full-service eCommerce platform and date migration company, our complex, multi-step process ensures that when you get to your new platform, everything is synched, integrated and functional, just as it’s supposed to be.
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Migration Case Study: Sagebrook HOME
Moving to a new Platform
Sagebrook Home is a B2B retailer of interior design and decorative accessories. They sell directly to designers and decorators and so their relationship with their customers is not only crucial but also intricate. The details of each designer’s discounts, access, and order history were all wrapped up with their customer data. So when Sagebrook decided to move platforms, they knew it would be imperative to find a way to make this customer data work in the new system.
Platform to Platform
Sagebrook home had been on a custom platform that also controlled their hosting. They wanted to move to BigCommerce for easier use, and greater freedom to control their own site. However, since the platform they were coming from was not a standardized eCommerce platform, there wasn’t much information on how exactly their data looked or how it would fit into BigCommerce. We asked Sagebrook the give us a sample of their customer data so that we could inspect it and make a game plan for moving it into BigCommerce.
Customer Groups
One of the main reasons Sagebrook was interested in BigCommerce was the platform’s robust customer group functionality. They could separate their dealers into groups with different prices and levels of access to the site. We set these customer groups up in the BigCommerce site and made sure that their customers each landed in the right group based on the data they provided.
Customizations
The Sagebrook site is segmented by customer groups and therefore we needed to develop their customizations to be segmented as well. Certain customizations block access for some users. For example, you need to be signed into the site to see any pricing at all. While others show customized information, like the bulk pricing charts that show different prices based on who is signed in.
Platform Migration Results
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Parallel Services
When you consider data migration, it’s worthwhile to think about other aspects of your eCommerce website to update as well. Transitioning to a new environment requires all-hands-on-deck attention and coordination. Here at MAK Digital Design we have specialized teams that work together seamlessly to update your website to an optimized, well-designed, and more reliable solution.
Custom Design
Ready to migrate your eCommerce store but the design can use some work? We’re experts at eCommerce custom design, theme integration and creating an overall website that converts users. Our desigeners are known for creating powerful, but simple aesthetics that help users enjoy and convert.
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MAKDigital is a top rated eCommerce SEO service company that engages with medium to large eCommerce stores. We’ve built our reputation one promoting and building successful eCommerce campaigns that perform. We’ll craft a competitive eCommerce SEO plan for your business with our leading SEO experts.
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MAK Digital Design Dev Tool Kit
If you think you’re out of options, that the customization you want just can’t be done, you owe it to your business to give us a call. Our eCommerce developers built this tool, and they can shape it in almost any way they need to. We created 1DBox to provide eCommerce merchants on SAAS platforms with an option to stay in the platform they love and still do the work they need to. Tell us about what you need to accomplish and 1DBox will take care of the rest.
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eCommerce Platform & Data Migration FAQs
An eCommerce platform migration is the process of taking your entire online store off one platform and moving all of it to another platform. Oftentimes migrations become necessary when a current platform cannot scale with the growth of a business or offer the functionality needed for high-quality user experience. There are a lot of businesses that choose to migrate from platforms like WordPress to Shopify or from Volusion to BigCommerce because full-service eCommerce platforms like Shopify and BigCommerce offer a lot of out-of-the-box functionality for eCommerce stores.
An eCommerce platform migration is the process of taking your entire online store off one platform and moving all of it to another platform. Oftentimes migrations become necessary when a current platform cannot scale with the growth of a business or offer the functionality needed for high-quality user experience. There are a lot of businesses that choose to migrate from platforms like WordPress to Shopify or from Volusion to BigCommerce because full-service eCommerce platforms like Shopify and BigCommerce offer a lot of out-of-the-box functionality for eCommerce stores.
An eCommerce platform migration is the process of taking your entire online store off one platform and moving all of it to another platform. Oftentimes migrations become necessary when a current platform cannot scale with the growth of a business or offer the functionality needed for high-quality user experience. There are a lot of businesses that choose to migrate from platforms like WordPress to Shopify or from Volusion to BigCommerce because full-service eCommerce platforms like Shopify and BigCommerce offer a lot of out-of-the-box functionality for eCommerce stores.
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MAK Digital Design has migrated hundreds of stores from old outdated platforms to new eCommerce platforms. The difference in eCommerce platforms can be night and day. We’ve helped migrate clients from outdated Yahoo carts to BigCommerce or Magento, and we’ve seen 10x improvements! From usability to SEO, client engagement, e.g. You can’t afford not to move! Let us help migrate your precious data from your old shopping cart to a new one we’ll pick together!
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