Migration from Oxatis to Shopify

You have an E-commerce site under Oxatis or even "New Oxatis", but you are looking to migrate to Shopify ? Take advantage of the strengths of Shopify to boost your E-commerce site and give your E-commerce a new lease of life.

Oxatis et Shopify are both SaaS solutions, i.e. by monthly subscription. No need to take care of the server or manage the technical part. You can trust us with all this and more as part of the migration to Shopify.

Why migrate from Oxatis to Shopify? 

The reasons are many but if you want a modern solution, SaaS, reliable and with a global community then Shopify is for you. 

Here are three factual reasons to change your Oxatis e-commerce to a Shopify site: 

1) Save money 

And yes ! This is Shopify's number 1 advantage over Oxatis. You'll save a lot of money. The monthly license is indeed very often cheaper for many merchants. You can contact one of our Shopify specialists to do a comparative study between your current Oxatis plan and the ideal Shopify plan for you. 

Do not hesitate because the gains can amount to more than 80% savings for some merchants! 

2) A modern solution 

Even if Oxatis is a solution that has evolved over time, today Shopify has several thousand developers working tirelessly on the source code of the solution.

This makes it one of the most advanced software in the world with many possibilities for merchants of all sizes. 

Mobile e-commerce, for example, is natively included in Shopify, as well as the relaunch of abandoned carts, social network connections, dynamic customer management and many other essential features.  

3) A gigantic functional perimeter 

Do you dream of a feature? How long does it take on Oxatis to get it? Often a long time. With Shopify you benefit from thousands of applications to install on your site (and which work immediately) as well as the possibility of developing private apps just for your site. 

For example with Shopify, there is a plugin to automatically translate your site into many languages. Ideal for testing many markets and getting your e-commerce off the ground.

Oxatis or Shopify? 

Choosing between these two E-commerce software can be done via a comparison of features, here are some indicators to make up your own mind based on a few criteria.

E-commerce specialization

Above, the two market solutions play on the same table. These are software specially developed for e-commerce. a dot everywhere.

Back office ergonomics 

The Oxatis back office is now a bit aging, the Shopify ide one is updated regularly and remains modern and organized to maximize merchant productivity. 

Of course, this point is a bit personal and changing the interface, whether to Shopify vers Oxatis or of Oxatis vers Shopify will always require time for training and adaptation. 

However, all the merchants we spoke to appreciated the switch to the bin interface. 

Slight advantage to Shopify therefore compared to Oxatis on this point

Graphic customization 

It is of course possible to choose a theme at Oxatis or at Shopify and modify it. But between the two, only Shopify gives access to 100% of the front end between the homepage and the cart page. The possibilities of Shopify are therefore much greater in terms of design and the creation of personalized graphic charters. If this point is important to you then Shopify earns a point.

SEO & Marketing

Which e-commerce solution is the most efficient from an SEO and marketing point of view between Shopify and Oxatis? This is a good question to ask yourself before choosing. On the SEO side, it is possible to write massive content on both solutions. Writing specialized content is indeed one of the secrets of SEO.

On the technical and marketing optimization side, each application pays off on both solutions. Oxatis has the advantage of being well integrated into the French ecosystem (price comparators for example) but all this is a bit dated. With Shopify, we can connect everything thanks to APIs and apps but there may still be a few plugins missing for the French part. 

For the moment, the two solutions are equal, but Shopify does not lack much to take over from Oxatis in this area. It may be a story of a few months. 
In any case, with American advertising agencies such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Tik Tok, Shopify clearly have the upper hand with very strong technical partnerships and native integrations with these advertising and marketing solutions. 

Number of apps 

Clearly, the two solutions are not equal and the comparison between Shopify and Oxatis is clearly leaning in favor of Shopify. With more than 6,000 applications, thousands of developers and an "American-style" app store, Shopify clearly dominates Oxatis on this point and the difference will increase further in the coming years. One point for Shopify. 

Number of partner agencies

On this point too, the little Frenchman is no match for the Canadian giant, and yes Shopify is Canadian. Oxatis only offers partnerships with agencies mainly based in France and of small size. With Shopify, a whole partner ecosystem is open to you anywhere in the world and with few constraints. This results in strong competition, therefore controlled prices for you and of course an important quality and a desire to always offer more services. 

A point for Shopify again.

International 

Here too, we are attacking one of the weak points of Oxatis this may change with "New Oxatis" in the future but for the moment, the point goes to Shopify which with Shopify markets offers the possibility of internationalizing its e-commerce site quickly. and easily with few constraints.

Data export

Generating sales and customer data is good, being able to export them to other systems as you wish to migrate solutions or simply keep your data is also important. 

Shopify offers 19 different APIs for adding or exporting information to your site. On the Oxatis side, there are indeed some possible exports or imports by CSV file, and very practical of course, but it is much more limited.  It is always possible to go through Oxatis support to recover data, but it is up to them and it is rarely free. 

Synthesis Oxatis VS Shopify 

As we have seen in this comparison, a migration from Oxatis to Shopify will considerably extend the development possibilities of your e-commerce site. It's a real change of horizon and possibilities that is emerging for you by adopting an e-commerce solution like Shopify that is much more scalable and much more efficient than Oxatis. 

So how do you switch from Oxatis to Shopify? 

First, it is necessary to contact one of our experts to define with you the scope of the project and your needs. Once this first analysis has been carried out, we will be able to carry out a budget study for the migration from Oxatis to Shopify. 

What are the steps for migrating to Shopify? 

1. Analyze the existing scope of your Oxatis site
2. Take over or redefine the graphic charter
3. Open Shopify store
4. Take over your content (pages, products, tree structure, customers, etc.)
5. Establish an SEO migration plan
6. Develop and/or integrate the functionalities necessary for your store (carrier payment, etc.)
7. Change domain name 

And voila, your new E-commerce site under Shopify is online!