This week saw the Cart2Cart team navigate demanding platform transitions, focusing heavily on intricate data customization requests and successfully onboarding large-scale stores. Our technical expertise was heavily utilized to solve non-standard requirements, ensuring high data fidelity even when dealing with unique source data structures.

A stylized cartoon image illustrating a massive data migration flow. Different shopping cart icons representing platforms like Wix and WooCommerce are shown moving onto a highway labeled Shopify, symbolizing the high volume of migrations to that platform.
A stylized cartoon image illustrating a massive data migration flow. Different shopping cart icons representing platforms like Wix and WooCommerce are shown moving onto a highway labeled Shopify, symbolizing the high volume of migrations to that platform.

Migration Flow: Shopify Continues to Lead the Charge

Our migration queue was dominated by clients moving towards Shopify, confirming its ongoing appeal across various sectors. We successfully completed or progressed over 20 full migrations and numerous demos, handling a significant total volume of data. Several large-scale projects, including a massive store relocation involving approximately 68,300 entities, highlighted our capacity for handling high-volume data transfers reliably.

Key Platform Moves:

  • The shift from WIX to Shopify remained one of the most frequent requests, with multiple stores migrating tens of thousands of products, including a 25,000-entity transfer.
  • We observed consistent popularity in the transition from WooCommerce to Shopify, particularly for medium to large enterprises seeking better scalability.
  • The flow wasn't entirely unidirectional, as several clients opted for a reverse move, utilizing our seamless Shopify to WooCommerce migration service.
  • Notable completed projects included a 15,000-entity WooCommerce store specializing in beverages and several successful BigCommerce to WooCommerce shifts.
A comic-book style illustration of a Cart2Cart engineer, concentrating intensely, fixing complex code issues like URL truncation and custom data mapping, highlighting the precision required for solving 13 points of client feedback.
A comic-book style illustration of a Cart2Cart engineer, concentrating intensely, fixing complex code issues like URL truncation and custom data mapping, highlighting the precision required for solving 13 points of client feedback.

Technical Deep Dive: Conquering Custom Data Challenges

This week brought several high-stakes technical tasks requiring customized code adjustments to meet unique client needs. Our support engineers successfully tackled complex data mapping, ensuring critical information was preserved despite platform limitations or unusual source setups.

Complex Resolved Issues:

  • URL & Custom Field Mapping: For an Xtcommerce to WooCommerce migration, engineers deployed 13 separate customization fixes to prevent product and category URL slugs from being prematurely truncated (e.g., cutting off after the 100th character or a dash), ensuring all 13 points of client feedback, including special price rules and MPN field mapping, were met.
  • External Pricing Data Integration: We successfully addressed a challenge where a Magento store stored complex tier pricing data externally (in a custom table or file). Our team developed a custom strategy to map this pricing data directly into Shopify's standard price fields by matching product SKUs, bypassing the default metafield route.
  • Customer Order Discrepancy: A notable issue was resolved concerning orders on a WooCommerce source store that lacked an associated customer ID. To prevent data loss, these orders were correctly migrated to Shopify using randomly generated emails, a necessary compromise explained to the client.
  • Wix Blog Restoration: Our team fixed a critical issue for a Wix user where product and blog images, hyperlinked content, and post content were missing post-migration due to outdated migration code. A custom library fix was deployed to correctly handle the structure of Wix blog posts.