how to migrate from bigcommerce to shopify

Hello, everybody. If you are on the BigCommerce  platform and you're looking to migrate to Shopify  ,or Shopify Plus, you come to the right place.  At Optimum7, we've done hundreds of migrations  ,to different platforms and we know the intricacies  of each and every platform. Whatever functionality  ,you have on BigCommerce might not work on Shopify  because they have different template structures.,When we execute a migration project from  BigCommerce to Shopify, we will migrate  ,your products, your customers, your  orders, your options, any HTML that  ,you might have on your product pages, any  content that you might have on BigCommerce  ,that needs to go to Shopify. We set up your  store and we will suggest the apps that you  ,need to leverage on Shopify or Shopify Plus. We  are partners with both BigCommerce and Shopify  ,so that we have access to their engineers  and we can help you throughout this process.,The last thing that you shouldn't  forget during this migration phase  ,is the 301 redirects, because  your URLs will likely change.  ,And a lot of people miss this specific step.  Because when you migrate, you don't want to  ,lose your organic visibility or any keywords or  any quality scores that you might have on your  ,paid campaigns. Watch the rest of the video to  see at what level we do this migration for you.,This screencast is to show how Optimum7  manages migrations from BigCommerce to  ,Shopify or Shopify Plus. Now  we have this nice section under  ,optimum7.com/migrations. And what you can  do is you can select BigCommerce and then  ,it will give you the options of all the  platforms we can migrate BigCommerce to.,If you click BigCommerce to Shopify,  you're going to see the products, the  ,categories, and which fields are important, which  functionalities we suggest on Shopify if you're  ,migrating from BigCommerce. And some pros and cons  but also, there's a detailed guide on what kind of  ,data is transferred and case studies,  which might be helpful as well.,Now, the way that Optimum7 migration  from BigCommerce to Shopify differs  ,is that we don't do an export, import.  What's important is that we have to  ,validate all the information. If you  look at the BiGCommerce to Shopify  ,process here, as you can see, we have database  comments. We have migration comments, and we  ,have the entire URL structures and everything.  Because different platforms have different URL  ,structures and the different special characters  limitations. There are so many exceptions.,Not only that, if you look at our GitHub  account, on GitHub, we have done these  ,migrations before. We have full code on how  we validate the products, the customers,  ,the orders, how we tie them together. How we  process HTML if you have HTML on your product  ,pages on BigCommerce that need to move over to  Shopify. Now, BigCommerce and Shopify manage  ,options and variables differently. There  is actually some sort of limitation on  ,Shopify with your options where  you cannot have unlimited options.,We evaluate all of this information through our  code, because we've done this thousands of times.  ,And if you look at this, you'll see all kinds of  migration processes here. And every single piece  ,of code, basically make sure that we validate  this information through the API. This is not  ,an export, import of a CSV file. You cannot do  migration for a website that does millions of  ,dollars annually through an automated software.  Software is not going to validate any of this.,Now, if you want to look at the documentation,  there's a more detailed documentation that we  ,have here. It has all these types of manual  links. It has the different exceptions based  ,on what you can do on BigCommerce, what  you cannot do on Shopify, vice versa.  ,Again, character limitations, the special  characters, the errors that you might have. And  ,we do all of this through our process here. As you  can see, this is a very, very detailed execution.,Why do we do it this way? Because it's very  important that you don't lose organic ranks  ,and you don't get 404s because your traffic is  going to drop, your sales are going to drop.  ,It's very painful. We have a lot of prospects  that used automated software and the migration  ,did not go well. And they didn't work with an  expert. And they come back and they're like,  ,"Well, we lost 50% of our traffic. We lost 60% of  our sales." You don't want that to happen to you.,The last thing is, if you actually again, go to  ,optimum7.com/migrations page. Let me show you that  really quickly. You will see a detailed checklist  ,that you can download here. The 125 of step  platform migration checklist. And that checklist  ,looks like this. It will help you throughout the  process. The platform selection, the planning,  ,the actual migration, the storefront, the  backend, the checkout, the data, the integration,  ,and anything that has to do with the marketing  social media tracking as well. I strongly  ,suggest that you download this because it will  help you plan your entire migration process.,Now, of course, we want everybody to do their due  diligence. Whenever you do this kind of migration,  ,look at examples, look at case studies  of whomever you're going to work with.  ,I'll show you some from Optimum7.  We migrated RC Superstore,  ,it's the site that we worked on. Specialist ID,  Good Counsel, Keys to your Door, EcoEnclose.,And if you actually look at this, what happened  after the migration process, I think we migrated  ,this site in 2016. I think we migrated this  in 2017. You'll see the database growth  ,in terms of organic visibility. So  their metrics have actually improved,  ,because whenever you do a platform migration, you  want to go to a speed and mobile first website.,And you have to pay attention to the mobile  ,usability metrics. And you have to  make certain improvements to design.  ,And from a conversion standpoint, you have  to implement certain functionalities like  ,search and filter. And this is all an effect  of that because everybody has analytics. Google  ,pays attention to how your users and your  customers interact with your website. Okay.,Do your due diligence, definitely to go  through the process, but this is very,  ,very important. Please, please make sure you  do the 301 redirects properly then. That's  ,one of the most important aspects of this.  You don't want to lose your ranks. You don't  ,want to lose money. You don't want to lose the  authority that you've worked so hard to build.  ,And if you have any questions,  please let us know. Thank you.,I hope that this video was helpful. If  you have any questions, please reach out  ,to us at optimum7.com. You can always email  info@optimum7.com or click the link below.

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