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[fisicx]

Cart migration services work in a few minutes and they work well

You can only migrate some elements. You don’t get the themes, plugins, extensions, customisations and so on. You still need to build the new site. And some elements just aren’t available on the new platform.

 

[antropy]

consider that whilst you may be giving up some control to the ogre that is the big company, there is nothing to stop you from moving your website to someone else very quickly if you want.

But this is precisely the point - things you develop and build in Shopify aren't transferable to another company. You have to start again from scratch if you want to move away.

Paul.

 

[antropy]

Cart migration services work in a few minutes and they work well

Total nonsense. You can export your products, categories, customers, and orders but not really much else. And even the above isn't always straight forward.

Paul.

 

[LPB 123]

Total nonsense. You can export your products, categories, customers, and orders but not really much else. And even the above isn't always straight forward.

Paul.

I have only ever needed / wanted to migrate products and categories and has worked well. I'm sorry my opinion is nonsense to you.

 

[fisicx]

I have only ever needed / wanted to migrate products and categories and has worked well. I'm sorry my opinion is nonsense to you.

Migrate from where to where?

It’s rarely simple or quick transferring from one platform to another.

 

[antropy]

I have only ever needed / wanted to migrate products and categories and has worked well.

Well that explains it. But if you're developing a successful online shop then it's likely you'll be building features for your customers and those are the things you can't take with you.

Paul.

 

[antropy]

It’s rarely simple or quick transferring from one platform to another.

Indeed, even with a service like cart2cart.

Paul.

 

[LPB 123]

Migrate from where to where?

It’s rarely simple or quick transferring from one platform to another.

Various to Shopify. We used Cart2cart and as I've said it has worked well. It has been very quick and nothing missed.

Well that explains it. But if you're developing a successful online shop then it's likely you'll be building features for your customers and those are the things you can't take with you.

Paul.

I go more for a KISS method so haven't had any built features (not currently anyway) that needed to be transferred. Just products and categories which worked well.

 

[japancool]

My biggest worry right now is migrating customer data. I can't migrate passwords so anyone who wants to log in will have to create a new password, which is going to annoy some people. I don't want them to go off somewhere else. Sure, they can check out as a guest, but that's nearly as off-putting.

 

[fisicx]

Various to Shopify. We used Cart2cart and as I've said it has worked well. It has been very quick and nothing missed.

Going the other way isn’t so easy and has already been said you still need to build the site. Which @Byzantium doesn't was to have to do.

 

[antropy]

Various to Shopify. We used Cart2cart and as I've said it has worked well. It has been very quick and nothing missed.

Yes that's why we're talking about vendor-lock-in - it's a one way ticket to Shopify's rules and their price hikes.

I go more for a KISS method so haven't had any built features (not currently anyway) that needed to be transferred. Just products and categories which worked well.

Having said the above, Shopify does have a place for very simple stores with no custom features.

Paul.

 

[Byzantium]

But this is precisely the point - things you develop and build in Shopify aren't transferable to another company. You have to start again from scratch if you want to move away.

Paul.

You seem to think this is either unique or frequent and neither of those is true.

In real business, you are constantly revising and changing things but you don't change the core fundamentals that frequently so any concerns over having to rebuild if transferring away from Shopify are unfounded in the short and medium term and in the long term they are highly manageable.

To negate the option when benefits could accrue from day one would seem to be rather biased to a non Shopify option.

 

[fisicx]

@Byzantium - that’s not at all correct. You can’t simply move from one platform to another. You never have and never will be able to.

 

[antropy]

You seem to think this is either unique or frequent and neither of those is true.

In real business, you are constantly revising and changing things but you don't change the core fundamentals that frequently so any concerns over having to rebuild if transferring away from Shopify are unfounded in the short and medium term and in the long term they are highly manageable.

To negate the option when benefits could accrue from day one would seem to be rather biased to a non Shopify option.

I mean I have run a real business for well over a decade and I've been in the IT industry almost 2 decades so I am aware of how these things work.

There's a reason vendor-lock-in is considered a serious business risk.

Paul.