Switching platforms, without the horror story
Replatforming has a horror-story reputation: lost rankings, broken data, months of limbo. It earned that reputation from DIY migrations. On ReadyCMS, migration is a structured project handled by our implementation team - planned in discovery, executed alongside your live store, and verified before anything switches over.
Where stores migrate from
What can move depends on what your current system lets us access and how clean the data is - discovery establishes that before you commit, not after.
Plugin-heavy WooCommerce
Consolidate the extension stack into one maintained platform.
Template SaaS stores
Escape checkout, catalog and integration ceilings without enterprise pricing.
Aging custom systems
Move off the codebase whose original developer left years ago.
Spreadsheets & ERP exports
Take a catalog that lives in Excel properly online for the first time.
What transfers
Data lands in native ReadyCMS structures - variations become real variations, attributes become structured attributes - so bulk tools and feeds understand your catalog from day one.
Including images, attributes and variations.
Retail, sale and wholesale prices with inventory data.
Accounts and orders, depending on data access.
Meta titles, descriptions and a redirect map.
Posts, pages and media where possible.
Shipping methods, taxes and store configuration where applicable.
ReadyCMSNative structures - variants, groups, locationsA migration in three phases
Discovery & plan
We review your platform, catalog size, number of variations, image volume, data quality, integrations, custom logic and SEO requirements. You get a realistic scope and timeline - a simple migration can be planned quickly; a complex one gets a structured implementation phase. No surprises mid-project.
Migrate & build
Our team moves the data while your current store keeps selling. Catalog, customers, orders and content land in ReadyCMS; payments, couriers, feeds and ERP connections are configured; the storefront is built - by your team, your agency or ours.
Verify & switch
Checkout, payments, shipping and feeds are tested end to end before launch. Redirects go live with the switchover so existing rankings and backlinks keep working - and our team stays on through stabilization.
How rankings survive the move
Rankings don't break because stores switch platforms - they break when migrations skip the unglamorous work. Ours doesn't:
- ✓ Meta titles & descriptions migrate with their pages
- ✓ URL structures kept where possible
- ✓ Every changed path gets a redirect
- ✓ Post-launch: sitemap submission & AI SEO audit
What determines the timeline
Anyone quoting a timeline before seeing your data is guessing. The real drivers - scoped in discovery:
Work runs parallel to your live store - “migration time” is not “downtime.”
Migration questions
Move without losing what you built.
Products, customers, order history, SEO metadata and redirects move as a structured project run by our team - so your rankings and your operation survive the switch.
Switch once. Keep your rankings.
Start with a no-commitment scope
Tell us your platform, catalog size and integrations. We'll come back with what transfers, what it takes, and a realistic timeline.