How to Migrate from WIX to Shopify. 2022 All In On Guide

Wix to Shopify Migration Checklist.

2022 Best Practices & Recommendations

HOW TO MIGRATE FROM WIX TO SHOPIFY 01.

CONNECT YOUR SOURCE AND TARGET SHOPPING CARTS.

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HIGHLIGHT THE DATA YOU WANT TO TRANSFER AND SPECIFY ANY ADDITIONAL MIGRATION OPTIONS

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MAP THE VARIOUS CUSTOMER GROUPS YOU HAD IN YOUR STORE AND THE VARYING STATUSES OF EXISTING ORDERS RUN THE FREE DEMO TO LAUNCH THE FULL MIGRATION.

WIX TO SHOPIFY MIGRATION SCENARIOS

Manual Migration If you’re running a smallscale business with a handful of products listed on your website, it is possible to migrate your data manually.

“Handful” in this case means anything in the realm of 2040 products.

Assisted Migration

Automated Migration

Assisted migration is exactly what it sounds like – transferring all your product, order, and customer data from your existing WIX website to your new Shopify store with technical help from experts.

Data migration tools like Cart2Cart are specifically designed to transfer all store data from one eCommerce platform to another while effectively eliminating any risk of data loss.

WHAT MIGRATION METHOD TO CHOOSE In 2022 e-merchants tend to automate any business processes and thus automated way of data transfer is mostly chosen.

Here’s why

UP-TIME

THEMES

Migrating from WIX to Shopify using data transfer tools like Cart2Cart only takes a few hours to complete with no site downtime whatsoever.

Your online store’s existing structure will be retained when migrating your data to your new platform.

DATA

COST

Every piece of customer data, order data, manufacturer data, supplier data, and product data will be migrated to your new platform with no risk of data loss.

It is the most cost-effective solution, both time-wise and resource-wise. You don’t need to hire a team of experts to do the migration for you.

HOW TO PREPARE FOR WIX TO SHOPIFY MIGRATION Manage Your WIX Store

Prepare Your Shopify Store

Create a Backup

Get Your Shopify Store Ready

Do a Site Data Audit

Choose a Theme

Validate Your Store Credentials

Install the Necessary Apps

HOW TO MIGRATE FROM WIX TO SHOPIFY IN 5 STEPS Set up the Source cart

Select WIX as a Source cart from the dropdown menu and enter the store's URL, Admin email and password.

Set up the Target cart Choose Shopify as your Target cart and install the "Migration for Shopify" app.

Here you will find information how to install it.

Select data for migration Choose the specific data entities you want to migrate or click the "Select all" box to transfer all data from WIX to Shopify You can transfer: orders customers products product categories manufacturers coupons reviews CMS pages

Specify additional migration options Cart2Cart offers many migration extras, like: “Migrate Source Store” - this will let you organize your store better "Create 301 redirects", which allows you to keep old product and category URLs working "Migrate Categories and Products SEO URLs" to preserve your old customers and your store's SEO ranking

Map customer groups & order statuses Cart2Cart does not migrate your Customer Groups and Order Statuses.

Instead, it allows you to perform data mapping.

Run free Demo migration

Transfer a limited number of entities and see how your current WIX data will look on the new Shopify store

Start Full migration Fund your account if there is not enough money to complete the migration.

Provide a discount coupon, if you have one, in the appropriate field.

HOW TO MIGRATE PRODUCTS FROM WIX TO SHOPIFY Migrating your products from your old store to your new one is as simple as checking the relevant boxes displayed on the Cart2Cart migration wizard and initiating the migration. The product options available for migration include: Name, SKU, Product Description, Image Description, Status, Manufacturer Price, Special Price Base Image, Additional Images URL, Meta Title, Meta Description Variants (SKU, Images, Quantity, Weight, Price, Special Price) Weight

HOW TO EXPORT ORDERS FROM WIX TO SHOPIFY Cart2Cart also makes it easy to export orders from your old store to the new one. Here’s a list of the data you can export using the tool:

Products (Name, SKU), ID, Product Price, Order Date, Quantity, Status, Price, Order Comments Shipping Address (First and Last Name, Address City, State, Zip Code, Country) Telephone Customer Name, Billing Address (First and Last Name, Address City, State, Zip Code, Country) Telephone

POST-MIGRATION TIPS 01. TEST YOUR SHOPIFY STORE 02.

FIND THE APPS YOU NEED WITH SHOPIFY STORE

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INVITE CUSTOMERS TO REACTIVATE THEIR ACCOUNTS

CONTACT US Website: https://www.shopping-cart-migration.com/cart2cart Email: Support Department

support@shopping-cart-migration.com

Business and Partnership

business@shopping-cart-migration.com

Phone:

1-800-224-1462