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Ecommerce Migration Without Losing The Parts That Earn.

Catalog, customers, order history, content and URLs move across. The storefront gets rebuilt in Next.js against a backend you hold the keys to, and the app bill you have been paying monthly mostly stops being a bill.

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What Comes Across

A replatform is judged on what survives it. This is the list, and the last two are the ones people find out about afterwards.

The Catalog

Products, variants, options, categories and images, with stock landing on the variant that holds it rather than on the product above it.

The Customers

Accounts, addresses and order history, so a returning buyer signs in and finds their own past instead of an empty page and a support ticket.

The Orders

Historical orders arrive as records rather than as a spreadsheet in a drawer. Last year stays queryable, which matters the first time you need to refund something from it.

The Content

Pages and posts including their images. A blog that has been earning traffic for three years is an asset, and it is the thing most replatforms quietly drop.

The URLs

Kept where they can be kept, redirected where they cannot. This is the part that gets skipped and then noticed a month later when traffic has already gone.

The Storefront

Rebuilt in Next.js against your new backend, rather than a theme approximating what you used to have.

Where People Are Coming From

Hosted

Shopify And BigCommerce

The usual reason is the app bill and the ceiling: a rule your business needs that the platform will not allow at any price.

Self-hosted

WooCommerce And Magento

Usually the maintenance. Plugin conflicts, a version upgrade nobody wants to run, and a site that is one bad Tuesday from being down.

Bespoke

Something Somebody Built

Often the hardest and the most worthwhile: a custom store whose author has moved on, where the knowledge left with them.

Most Of Your Apps Stop Being Apps.

The recurring bill under a hosted store is rarely the platform fee. It is the six subscriptions doing shipping, transactional email, automations and analytics, each holding a partial copy of data the store already had.

Those are part of the platform here, reading the same records as the orders. It is a cost argument, but mostly it is an accuracy one: nothing is syncing, so nothing disagrees.

Nothing Goes Dark.

The new backend is built and loaded alongside your live store. You see the finished thing running on your own catalog and your own order history before anything points at it.

The cutover is then a DNS change, made when you say so. There is no window where the old store is off and the new one is not finished, because that window is where replatforms go wrong.

Questions People Ask

Which platforms can you migrate from?

Shopify and WooCommerce most often, then BigCommerce, Magento, Squarespace and bespoke builds nobody maintains any more. The origin matters less than the shape of the data: what we need is a way to read your catalog, customers and orders, and the export or the database is usually enough.

How long does it take?

It depends almost entirely on catalog size and how much of the storefront is bespoke, which is why the scoping call comes before any number. A small store on a stock theme is a different project from twenty thousand variants and a custom checkout, and quoting both alike would mean overcharging one of them.

Will I lose my search rankings?

Nobody can promise a search position, and anyone who does is selling something. What can be promised is mechanical: existing URLs kept where they can be, redirected where they cannot, and content served server-side so it is crawlable on day one. Rankings usually wobble for a few weeks after any replatform and settle.

Do I have to stop selling during the move?

No. The new backend is built and loaded alongside your live store, so you see the finished thing running on your own catalog and your own order history before anything points at it. The cutover is a DNS change made when you say so, not a window where the old store is off and the new one is not ready.

What happens to my apps?

Most of them stop being apps. Shipping, transactional email, automations and analytics are part of the platform here rather than monthly subscriptions on top of it, so a chunk of a typical app bill goes away at the cutover. The honest exception is anything genuinely niche, which gets identified during scoping rather than after you sign.

Can I do it myself?

Yes, and the import documentation is public. Plenty of developers move their own catalog and bring us in only for the storefront. This page exists for people who would rather hand over the whole thing, not to suggest it cannot be done without us.

Bring Us The Store You Have.

Tell us the platform, the catalog size and what is custom about it, and you get a scope and a number before anybody starts.

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