Transitioning from your old website to a Shopify platform can be daunting, especially if you have a large business. Shopify makes it easy to transfer your data from your old website to your Shopify website. There is a chance that you can lose data, but Shopify works hard to ensure that doesn’t happen.
Tips for Seamless Migration
- Describe your goals before starting migration:
- Document all your product descriptions, weight, URL, SKUs, and sales history.
- List products in each collection.
- Document all your pages.
- Take note of all current customers and orders.
- Document the following procedures:
- What kind of data needs to be moved?
- How is the data processed?
- How much time will occur between migration and resuming activity?
- In what order should things occur?
- How should your data be mapped out?
- Set up URL Redirects:
- Set up 301 redirects for new URLs.
- Prevent 404 errors.
- Optimize product imagery:
- Dispose of any imagery that needs to be updated.
- Make sure all photos are compressed correctly.
