Migration Solutions
Resources
The Competish
Jargon
Shopify Value Wow!
100

Often referred to as a "Template" on other platforms, this part of a merchant website must be completely rebuilt on Shopify and cannot transfer over, no matter the original platform

What is a Theme?

100

These spreadsheets make it easy to import and export data from any other platform to Shopify

What are CSV files?

100

Email hosting services make this Shopify competitor very popular, but no App/extension options means businesses might have trouble growing

What is GoDaddy?

100

Most of Shopify's competitors refer to these Shopify groupings as "categories"

What are collections?

100

Often thought of as "expensive" or a last resort for merchants, this marketplace can actually be an incredibly useful recommendation to the right merchants who have budgets to migrate to Shopify

What is the Experts Marketplace?

200

If a merchant mentions they already have one of these, asking to see it can make it easier to see their migration needs

What is a pre-existing website?

200

If you’re really stuck, this Shopify message board can be a great place to find migration advice from our Partners, Support Advisors and other merchants

What is Shopify Community?

200

This popular eCommerce host is actually part of Wordpress, and functions as their eCommerce service

What is WooCommerce?

200

Woocommerce refers to these as a “plugin,” and you need them for almost every feature on that platform

What are apps?

200

Most of our competitors have a little blog content on how to get the most out of their platform, but we have this professionally produced free portal for video learning, a huge step up from any competitor

What is Shopify Compass?

300

This solution is cheaper than an Expert, and quicker than migrating manually, and we've even got a store for them

What is an app?

300

This free Shopify-built app is very useful for migrating from a variety of platforms, but isn’t compatible with some big platforms like Wix or Magento

What is the Store Importer app?

300

This platform is known for having beautiful website designs, but scaling businesses might find they have to pay more and more for basic Shopify features like Abandoned Cart Recovery, Gift Cards and Discounts

What is Squarespace?

300

Despite the similar names, Squarespace does not actually own this popular in-person payment system, instead this company was actually started by the founder of Twitter

What is Square?

300

When migrating merchants mention they have a custom domain hosted on their old platform, this process should always be discussed so that the merchant can completely move away from their old host

What is transferring the domain to Shopify?

400

Merchants migrating from this two-syllable platform don't have to close their old account, instead they can integrate it with a Shopify app and sell on both platforms

What is Etsy?

400

This app allows you to preview your imports before importing the data and creates less problems when working with the Excel spreadsheets that give the app its name

What is the Excelify app?

400

This platform has 0% transaction fees on any plan, but each plan has a total sales cap so you can only sell so much before requiring an upgrade

What is BigCommerce?

400

This primary Shopify account detail is something that many migrating merchants are still learning about, and you might have to explain its importance to the merchant (along with other Shopify terms) since they are so new

What is a myshopify.com URL?

400

Other than Lightspeed, this is the only eCommerce company to offer its own house-built POS system, making for an easy integration of inventory across all sales channels

What is Shopify?

500

This particular Advisor Quality Score Attribute is very important in migration interactions, as migrating merchants often have complex operations and won't know all of their potential issues right away

What is next issue avoidance? Or, what is context gathering?

500

This app will help you transfer your store data to Shopify automatically, and even help you set up 301 redirects and preserve SEO information through the process

What is the Cart2Cart OR LitExtension app?

500

It's a good thing this platform is one of the easiest ones to set up, but you might be waiting a while for support from their team of 13 people

What is BigCartel?

500

"Product tags" are referred to as "Ribbons" on this single-syllable platform

What is Wix?

500

Developers and other eCommerce professionals may be working with clients to migrate on their behalf, so the Migration Toolkit including a Q&A video, platform comparison sheets and more can be found on this Shopify program's website

What is Shopify Partners?

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