Streamline Everything. Sell Everywhere. Scale with Shopify.
Whether you're selling DTC, in-store, or across marketplaces, Shopify unifies your operations, accelerates transactions, and sets your brand up to scale. Check your headaches at the door.
Why Migrate to Shopify?
The first step to a more secure, easy to use ecommerce solution that will grow with your business.
Shopify
99.9% Site Uptime Means You’re Always Open
Site Hosting & Updates are Seamless
Included Operational Solutions for Payments, Shipping, Sales Channels and Taxes
Massive Integrated App Based Solutions to Accommodate Nearly Every Need
Always Available Customer Service
Built In Analytics, Social Commerce and SEO
Optimized for Mobile and Scalable to Enterprise Level
Others
Variable Performance but Downtimes are More Frequent
Customization Needed to Adapt to Platform Improvements
Security, Shipping, Payments and Tax Tracking Rely on External Integrations
App Based Integrations vary by platform
Support availability varies by platform
SEO tools available for some platforms, but provide the bare minimum of coverage
Scaling can require expensive custom solutions, mobile optimization varies
We can help migrate from any platform to Shopify
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WooCommerce
WooCommerce thrives as a solution for open source WordPress, but plugins, hosting and updates are pain points for users. Valuable time is often devoted to troubleshooting, forum based assistance and remedying downtime issues. Shopify is designed as an all in one platform, built with an eye on scalability, operational needs, security and front facing engagement top of mind. Spend less time on headaches and more time enhancing your brand and your engagement.
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Magento
Magento is a high powered commerce solution and is most valuable to Adobe universe enterprise users. Its complexity and maintenance are often cited as troublesome to users. Shopify enhances operational use with a clear dashboard leading to all controls, marketing needs, sales channels and analytics without requiring expert development assistance.
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WIX
Wix is a powerful option for beginning users serving as a very useful site building tool. Commerce however is not integrated and is offered as an add on. Wix’s app based offering is much smaller and begins to struggle as commerce scales. Shopify scales effortlessly and communication between your catalog and your front facing PDP is seamless letting your business grow along with your offerings.
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Squarespace
A favorite for design capability, Squarespace has limited commerce functionality. Store tools are basic and begin to max out beyond a small set of SKUs. Payment and shipping integrations are limited and checkout customization is not an option. Shopify themes require some customization to reach similar design capability, yet the operational, sales and marketing features overwhelmingly surge beyond what Squarespace at both the outset and at scale.
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Etsy
A complete marketplace bringing eyeballs to product, Etsy provides users a great jumping off point to get products off the ground. Branding customization and scaling are however extremely limited. Shopify deploys Etsy integration apps to allow Etsy users to both control their own product presentation and pursue Etsy as a sales channel.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions about migrating to a modern ecommerce solution.
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With a proper audit and plan, most site migrations take 4 to 8 weeks to complete depending on complexity and availability of creative assets.
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Absolutely, once we take a look at your current site and its deployments, we can relate Shopify’s costs to you along with any customized needs you’re interested in.
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Only inasmuch as it takes for your DNS to switch from one record to another. Your new Shopify site will remain password protected until you’ve chosen to go live.
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In all likelihood the answer is no, if anything your functionality will be enhanced by Shopify’s capabilities. There’s always a first, but we can’t see it coming soon.
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As part of the migration process, we’ll checklist your redirects and metadata to ensure your hard fought for rankings stay intact.
Making Your Shopify Migration Happen
If you’re on a mission to gather all the information you can, you’re probably trying to figure out how you’re going to fit the site migration you know you need into the budget forecast, we get that.