Replatforming
Outgrown your ecommerce platform?
We plan and deliver ecommerce migrations with the data, redirects, customer accounts and integrations handled together – and we’ll tell you when moving isn’t the answer.
Common moves
Migrations we plan and deliver
Shopify to Shopify Plus
Same platform, more room: unlimited B2B catalogues for customer-specific pricing, custom apps containing Shopify Functions, more checkout control and additional stores. Mostly configuration, apps and integration changes rather than a rebuild.
WooCommerce to Shopify
Less infrastructure to look after, in exchange for working within Shopify’s data model. Plugins become apps or custom code, and customers set a new password because password hashes don’t transfer.
WooCommerce to Magento
For large catalogues, complex B2B or several storefronts, where you want to keep control of the code and the hosting.
Magento migrations
Upgrades onto a supported release line, moves between Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce, or away from Magento altogether.
Legacy and bespoke systems to a platform
Retiring a custom-built or discontinued system, usually with years of order history and business rules that have to be understood before they can be moved.
Before you move
“Your existing platform is fine. It just needs fixing.”
We say this more often than you might expect. Slow hosting, too many apps or plugins, poorly built customisations and neglected integrations all feel like platform problems, and a migration carries every one of them across. Fixing them costs less, disrupts less and can happen while you trade.
What it involves
The work that decides whether a migration goes well
- Data. Products, variants, attributes, customers and order history mapped to a data model that rarely matches the old one, with several trial migrations before the real one.
- URLs and search. Every address with traffic or links redirected to its closest equivalent and checked in bulk after launch, with titles, descriptions and structured data carried across deliberately.
- Customer accounts. Records move; passwords generally don’t. Account activation emails, timing and customer service scripts are planned in advance.
- Integrations. Every connection to ERP, warehouse, accounting, marketplaces and email rebuilt or reconfigured and tested end to end. Often the longest part of the project.
- Apps and plugins. Each one replaced by a built-in feature, an app or custom code – or dropped, once someone has confirmed what it actually did.
- Cut-over. A content freeze, a final import of recent orders and customers, DNS changes, a rollback plan and a date that avoids your busiest weeks.
Delivery
Migration is planning, then automation
A migration succeeds when everything that has to move is listed, the move is automated and repeatable, and there is proof of what happened afterwards.
That discipline isn’t specific to ecommerce: eplatforms has planned and delivered large, time-critical data migrations for more than two decades, and brings the same approach to every platform move.
- An inventory of everything that has to move
- Migration scripts rehearsed until they run cleanly
- A planned cut-over with a way back
- Checks afterwards that prove what moved, and where
Next step
Wondering whether to move or fix?
Tell us what the current platform can’t do. Sometimes the answer is to stay where you are.