This week, the Cart2Cart team successfully wrapped up a high-velocity migration period, transferring over 220,000 entities across dozens of client projects. The flow remains heavily oriented towards modernization, with major legacy platforms moving to more scalable solutions. Our technical team tackled several complex, platform-specific challenges, ensuring data precision even when dealing with tricky tax logic and advanced image formats.

An illustration depicting a high-tech control room with a glowing console displaying a migration flow exceeding 220,000 entities, symbolizing the weekly volume of transfers completed by Cart2Cart.
An illustration depicting a high-tech control room with a glowing console displaying a migration flow exceeding 220,000 entities, symbolizing the weekly volume of transfers completed by Cart2Cart.

Weekly Migration Triumphs and Platform Focus

The total volume of completed migrations, including demos, was impressive, reflecting strong end-of-year momentum. A significant portion of the workload involved moves to Shopify, which continues to dominate as the target platform of choice. We saw multiple successful WooCommerce to Shopify and BigCommerce to Shopify migrations complete smoothly, alongside niche transfers like PrestaShop to WooCommerce for specialty retailers.

Key Operational Highlights:

  • Approximately 220,000 data entities (products, customers, orders) were processed this week.
  • We executed 39 completed migrations and demo runs, helping clients ranging from gourmet food suppliers to large-scale industrial hardware sellers.
  • A massive Shopware project involving over 266,200 entities reached the 'EDITED' status, demonstrating our capacity for handling substantial datasets.
  • Completed projects included large data movements from Magento (41,200 entities) and Volusion (47,700 entities) to Shopify.
A comic-style scene showing a developer solving a complex tax migration problem, using a shield labeled with a tax multiplier to fix inconsistent product pricing data.
A comic-style scene showing a developer solving a complex tax migration problem, using a shield labeled with a tax multiplier to fix inconsistent product pricing data.

Technical Deep Dive: Tackling Currency, Taxes, and Permissions

Our engineers resolved several detailed technical issues this week, focusing heavily on ensuring monetary data integrity and overcoming platform authorization hurdles. These fixes ensure precise data transfer, especially when systems calculate taxes differently.

Critical Resolutions:

  • Tax Logic Challenge: For a major migration from Shopware to Shopify, we identified and resolved a price discrepancy where the source platform stored prices excluding tax, but displayed them including a 1.19 multiplier. Custom logic was applied to multiply the product price by 1.19 and ensure correct rounding upon migration.
  • WebP Image Conversion: During a WooCommerce to BigCommerce remigration, an issue where webp images were converting with a black background was identified. This stemmed from specific logic in our internal image processing code and is being addressed to maintain image integrity.
  • Currency Standardization: In a Magento to WooCommerce transfer, older orders were being incorrectly imported as USD instead of their original local currency. We implemented a customization fix to ensure proper currency mapping for historical order data.
  • Wix Permission Error: Several Wix migrations stalled due to 403 Forbidden errors when querying hidden products. This required us to instruct clients to grant the application the specific WIX_STORES.READ_HIDDEN_PRODUCTS permission, highlighting the need for vigilance regarding platform API security changes.