How to Migrate from CSV to Shopify Without Impacting Revenue [2022]

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How to Migrate from CSV to Shopify Without Impacting Revenue [2022] An Overview 1. Why Migrate CSV to Shopify?

2. How to Migrate from CSV to Shopify?

3. CSV to Shopify Migration. Cart2Cart Scenario

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Estimate the Exact Migration Cost Get Your Source & Target Stores Ready Specify Store Data You Want to Transfer to Shopify Choose Additional Migration Options Try Demo Migration Finalize Full Migration 4.Post-Migration Suggestions

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Why Migrate CSV to Shopify?

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Although CSV is a good eCommerce solution that comes packed with many useful features, it is obvious from the Google Trends illustration that it finds it hard to present serious competition to universal Shopify. The main advantages that make CSV store owners think over replatforming to Shopify are: More user-friendly interface; A wider range of free templates; No limits on products or sales; A larger number of available apps; Blogging functionality ‘out of the box’; Better SEO features, etc.

If your CSV store doesn’t meet your current business requirements and you wish to expand the store functionalities - give a try to more powerful Shopify.

How to Migrate from CSV to Shopify?

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Let’s now focus on 3 possible eCommerce replatforming scenarios for you to choose from. The manual way of shopping cart switch is a good way to go for those possessing deep coding skills, much time, and patience. The method involves copy/pasting every piece of the eCommerce data from one store to another.

Besides, one can hire an experienced programmer and have the job done. Assisted way of website migration is quite reliable and secure, though it may expect huge financial investments.

Alternatively, you can try an automated way of migration with the help of online converters (like Cart2Cart) and have all your CSV store data imported to Shopify quickly, flawlessly and in a totally automated manner.

CSV to Shopify Migration. Cart2Cart Scenario Get Your Source & Target Stores Ready Install your Shopify store without any additional apps. Make sure to find your current and new stores’ credentials.

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Specify Store Data You Want to Transfer to Shopify Generally, the following store entities can be transferred to Shopify: Goods (product name, images, description, a number of goods in stock, price); Visuals related to the products (color, shape, size of the product); The total amount of the purchase, a list of purchased goods, payment information; Static pages (like Contacts, About Us, Return Policy, Terms & Conditions); Images; Information about customers (name, email address, phone number, location, etc.); SEO settings (including 301 redirects); Integrations.

With that in mind, specify the types of the store data that you wish to be transferred from CSV to Shopify (products, product categories, customers, orders, coupons, blogs, blog posts, CMS pages).

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Choose Additional Migration Options When ready, select the additional migration opportunities that are provided by Cart2Cart to make the replatforming even more flawless.

In other words, the following additional migration options can be chosen: “Migrate Source Store categories into Shopify Automated Collections” option allows to determine a specific product as belonging to several collections and organize your store better.

With the help of the “Create 301 redirects on your target store after migration” option, you can keep old products and categories URLs working at Shopify.

“Migrate categories and products SEO URLs” makes it possible to preserve all the current links structure to your products thus saving your old customers and SEO ranking of your store.

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Try Demo Migration Running Demo migration (that is free of cost) doesn’t usually take much time but provides you with a great opportunity to see how the service works. Though Demo Migration is a skippable step, it is strongly recommended to try.

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Finalize Full Migration If you’re totally happy with the Demo results, you are now ready to perform Full Migration. Once you’ve checked the entities and migration options, you can start the process. You’ll be notified by email about your migration completion.

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Post-Migration Suggestions

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Even when all CSV store data is imported to Shopify, there are still some tips & tricks that should be performed to make the new online shop work as required. To be more specific, it’s the right time to check the store for performance issues and ask your customers to inform you in case smth goes wrong. Besides, with the help of numerous Shopify modules/addons, you can expand the new store as required.

Now you may start using all the new possibilities that your new Shopify store has to offer.

Contact us

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

support@shopping-cart-migration.com

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1-800-224-1462