Migration Solutions
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?
These spreadsheets make it easy to import and export data from any other platform to Shopify
What are CSV files?
Email hosting services make this Shopify competitor very popular, but no App/extension options means businesses might have trouble growing
What is GoDaddy?
Most of Shopify's competitors refer to these Shopify groupings as "categories"
What are collections?
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?
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?
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?
This popular eCommerce host is actually part of Wordpress, and functions as their eCommerce service
What is WooCommerce?
Woocommerce refers to these as a “plugin,” and you need them for almost every feature on that platform
What are apps?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
"Product tags" are referred to as "Ribbons" on this single-syllable platform
What is Wix?
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?