Ecommerce Product Data Migration

Strategies will vary for ecommerce Product Data Migrations depending on several factors including the number of products on the site, the ecommerce platform, and the number of missing attributes.

What is an Ecommerce Product Data Migration?

Anytime you are moving ecommerce platforms you will need to go through an ecommerce Product Data Migration. Product pages are usually the vast majority of pages on an ecommerce site so it needs to be treated as its own project within a new website project.

What are some reasons for doing this?

It’s easy to feel trapped when all of your ecommerce product data is stuck on your aging platform. An old ecommerce platform can be like an old car that needs a lot of repairs and maintenance. Just like an old car, there may be issues with it that you’ve tried to solve with no success. If this is the way you feel then it’s time to move to something less complex and easier to maintain and enhance.

What are the steps involved?

Once you’ve made the leap and started a new ecommerce project you will soon get to a phase where you are designing the new product page. This design will be key since it will dictate the attributes. For example, if you are selling shoes and your new product page design shows the width of the shoes but your old site does not, this means that your current product data will be missing this attribute. When migrating product data from one platform to another these are factors you will need to consider.

If you are looking for assistance with migrating your product data from one place to another please feel free to reach out and talk to us about how we can help.