Migration vers Shopify

What is your current e-commerce solution?

Why migrate to Shopify?

Migrate to Shopify has been a fundamental trend in French e-commerce for several years now. Because even if Shopify is quite recent on the French market, it is an e-commerce solution that has existed for almost 15 years now! And since it is available in French and with many apps and means of payment dedicated to the French market, Shopify has conquered the hearts of e-merchants. Let's see where this success comes from. 

Here are 5 reasons to change your e-commerce solution and migrate to Shopify! 

Shopify is the most effective solution for your e-commerce 

Have you ever felt frustrated or nervous in front of your e-commerce back office? Have you ever complained about a bug or a failed update? faced with the complexity of finding information? Faced with the slowness of your back office?

You can say goodbye to all these problems by migrant vers Shopify from today. Shopify has the most ergonomic, fast and convenient back office we've seen in years. It is extremely simple to use while being very powerful from a functional point of view. What finally work serenely

Shopify is the most economical solution 

Shopify is sometimes criticized for taking commissions on sales and many merchants are afraid of migrate to Shopify for this reason. And it's true that it's quite new in the landscape of E-commerce solutions. But even with this commission Shopify's price remain extremely interested.

Indeed, in many cases, by really counting what a Wordpress, magento, Prestashop or other server costs, maintenance, time spent, loss of data, delays etc...  We often arrive at a more than flattering balance sheet for Shopify. 

What do you prefer to spend your time as a merchant? Solve technical bugs or find new customers? 

Shopify is the ideal solution for those who prefer to invest in the serenity of their platform and their e-commerce business and thus save time to grow their business. 

Shopify is always up to date 

Let's be honest, who likes to update? Since when did you make the last plugin update on your current e-commerce solution? Do you have dozens of "update" buttons that you dare not touch for fear of breaking everything? So you certainly have an e-commerce solution that does not benefit from the latest news and innovations and which may have bugs and security vulnerabilities.

By switching to Shopify, it will be ancient history. All stores are automatically updated by Shopify on a regular and bug-free basis. You benefit from all the latest technological developments in e-commerce without having to spend a single euro on maintenance! 

At Pikka, even if we are certainly a agence Shopify, we believe this is the right way to do business: efficient and simple for merchants.

Shopify is the most popular e-commerce solution

Today, more than 1.7 million Shopify stores are active worldwide, including more than 10,000 on Shopify Plus. [update 2022] We are even talking about several million shops today  [fin update 2022] 

Here is the breakdown of searches on Google for the keywords "Shopify" (in blue), Prestashop (in red) and Magento (in orange). Shopify hands down the most popular e-commerce solution award this year! 

Migrating to Shopify is quick and easy 

 Last, but not least, reason to migrate to Shopify or Shopify Plus : it's a technical process but mastered by our Shopify experts at Pikka. Our job is to provide you with an even more efficient site after your migration and to finally free you from your technical problems with your old solution. 

We take care of everything: 

• Analysis of the existing functional scope
• Search for technical solutions on Shopify
• Creation of the new Shopify store
• Transfer of customer data
• Transfer of the product catalog
• Migration of orders
• DNS switch
• Creating 301 redirects 
• Management of natural referencing during migration

In short, our offers of migration vers Shopify, regardless of your current platform, guarantee you a more efficient site to continue to sell even more, to exceed your objectives and to benefit from the most efficient e-commerce solution on the market in complete security. 

FAQ Migration vers Shopify 

Can you keep your data when migrating to Shopify? 

Yes ! At Pikka, we will extract data from your current e-commerce solution to integrate it into Shopify. The quality and quantity of data is highly dependent on your current solution. To have all the details, the easiest way is to ask our sales team for information.

It is very often possible to retrieve the entire product catalog, photos, price, product information, product categorization, etc. 

Customer data is of course essential and can be exported in almost all cases (Magento, Prestashop, Wordpress no problem, for somewhat exotic SaaS e-commerce solutions it's more on a case-by-case basis). Note that in the context of an E-commerce CMS migration, passwords are never exported! Shopify has a function allowing users to reset their password for more fluidity and for a seamless migration.

For commands, it will depend on your architecture. If you have an ERP then the new connection between Shopify and the ERP will take over. It is possible to export orders from open source CMS and integrate them into Shopify.  Note that the order numbers are dependent on Shopify and will not always be the same.

Note also that in the case of a migration vers Shopify, the price of data migration is highly dependent on the volume of data to be migrated. 

How long does a Shopify migration project take? 

Specifying a migration deadline is always complicated, as the situation strongly depends on your objectives, the existing information system and the availability of the technical teams.  To make it simple and to have some time markers, here are some migration estimates to Shopify:

For a "simple" project with little data (a few hundred orders / products / customers) and a simple graphic charter, the project can generally take between 2 and 3 months. 

For an average project, with several thousand pieces of data to migrate to Shopify, with the integration of a tailor-made graphic charter and a bit of specific development, the project can take 3 to 6 months.

And finally for large projects with hundreds of thousands of data to migrate, ERP connections, a complete graphic charter to create and integrate, we can be between 5 and 7 months of project. It is always possible to go faster but this time takes into account all the elements necessary for the migration: project and framing meetings, internal validations by the different members of your teams, tests, training. 

In order to guarantee the success of the project, it seems necessary to us for each migration to Shopify to support you in this change with training, support and advice to make the most of your future e-commerce solution! 

Can we migrate to Shopify from any E-commerce platform? 

Yes of course ! Regardless of your current platform, be it Magento, Prestashop, Wordpress, Wizishop, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Proximis or other, changing your e-commerce solution to take advantage of Shopify is no problem!