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BigCommerce Migration
Move your store onto BigCommerce without losing wholesale customers, marketplace sales or the rankings you already have.
Move to BigCommerce without disrupting wholesale pricing, product data or the sales channels already working. We test your catalog early, rebuild price lists from real orders and check every channel before launch.
BigCommerce Migration
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•Why Suff Digital
BigCommerce replatforming run by a team that tells you the limits first.
A BigCommerce migration works when the catalog, price lists and sales channels are tested before the build gets expensive. We surface those limits early, recommend the cleanest route and move the store with launch checks tied to real orders.
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Matt Suffoletto
Founder & CEO
Kriszta
Chief Operating Officer
Tony
Partnership Director
What Our BigCommerce Migration Services Include
Six things a move onto BigCommerce has to get right. Miss one and a wholesale customer pays retail on their first order.
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•Wholesale prices your customers actually get
Trade tiers, negotiated rates and volume breaks rebuilt in BigCommerce's price list model, then checked against real order history.
•Your catalog tested against the option limits
Your real option and variant structure run against the platform ceilings before import, with a restructuring decision for anything that overflows.
•Marketplace and social listings that keep working
Every channel re-keyed to the new product IDs and checked as genuinely updating, because connected and updating are not the same.
•Your highest-traffic category addresses mapped by hand
One-to-one mapping wherever traffic or links exist, with pattern rules kept for the long tail where a wrong guess costs nothing.
•The blog, guides and everything outside the store
Content held in a separate system counted alongside the catalog, so nothing that earns traffic falls outside the scope.
•Tracking rebuilt and proved with real orders
Analytics, conversion tracking and ad platform tags rebuilt on the new templates, then confirmed firing with live test orders.
•Problems we solve
BigCommerce migration trouble points
These are the failures that cost money when a store moves onto BigCommerce and the catalog is not tested first.
Diagnose my site •01
Wholesale customers see retail prices
Trade tiers, negotiated rates and volume breaks work differently on every platform, so they rarely come across as data. Rebuild them from an incomplete spreadsheet and some accounts pay retail on their first order after the move. That failure shows up least in testing.
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Your products do not fit the option limits
BigCommerce caps how many options and variants a product can carry, and configurable products often exceed it. The overflow has to become separate products or modifiers. Import totals still add up, so the constraint surfaces during testing rather than planning, when the URL map has to change too.
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The category pages that bring you traffic disappear
Filtered category addresses, the ones built from brand, size or material, are often what rank. BigCommerce builds its own category paths from your catalog tree, so those combinations have no automatic equivalent. Mapped by pattern, your best category pages land on nothing.
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Everything that syncs with the store stops updating
Marketplaces, shopping feeds, your accounting system and your warehouse software all key off the old store's product IDs. After the move they either stop updating or point at addresses that no longer work, and none of it raises an alert.
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The blog and buying guides get left behind
The content that earns links and rankings often sits in a separate system rather than in the store. Draw the scope around commerce data and the blog stays behind, along with the guides bringing in people who had never heard of you.
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Sales reports look like a crash when nothing crashed
The new storefront fires different tracking events from different templates, so your analytics stop attributing while orders keep arriving. Revenue appears to fall, and marketing decisions get made on that number for weeks before anybody checks the tracking.
Our BigCommerce Migration Process
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Phase 01
Week 1
We map your pricing, options and connections
We inventory products, the option and variant structure, price lists and customer groups, plus every system connected to the store. Alongside that we crawl the storefront for what is actually indexed. Treat the week ranges on these steps as an estimate. The dates we commit to are the ones written into your proposal.
Phase 02
Weeks 1 to 2
We test the catalog and rebuild your price lists
Your option model runs against BigCommerce's ceilings, and anything that overflows gets a restructuring decision. We rebuild price lists and customer groups, then check them against real order history.
Phase 03
Weeks 2 to 5
We build the storefront and write the URL map
Storefront and catalog go onto a sandbox store, imported in batches with a check after each. Addresses carrying traffic or links get a destination each, and the long tail gets rules. We compare the sandbox with your live site.
Phase 04
Week 5
We test real orders on every channel you sell through
Payment, tax and shipping get set and frozen, then live orders run end to end including a refund. We confirm each marketplace, feed and connected system is receiving the new product data rather than showing as connected.
Phase 05
Launch day
We hold orders briefly and move the store
A short order hold opens at an hour taken from your own trading pattern. Redirects go live, the domain switches, and we watch checkout, order flow and the channel feeds throughout.
Phase 06
Weeks 6 to 9
We track storefront and channel sales separately
Orders, channel sales, visits and search coverage compared weekly with the numbers from before the move. Channels get watched on their own, because a stale marketplace listing causes a decline storefront analytics never shows.
•The traffic you already have
Your category pages are what rank. BigCommerce rebuilds every one of their addresses.
BigCommerce generates its own paths from your catalog tree, so the whole indexed store changes at once. Two sets of pages decide whether anyone notices: the categories bringing in people who have not heard of you, and the product pages other sites link to. Both get settled before the build.
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Addresses with real traffic or links mapped one by one, not by pattern rule
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The blog, guides and comparison pages counted inside the project, not outside
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Search coverage and visits compared weekly with a baseline taken beforehand
•Where we stand on the risks
What a BigCommerce migration puts at risk, and the position we take on each.
If the order hold breaches the limits we agreed beforehand, we revert to your previous store using the rollback we ran in rehearsal. The call is yours.
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Rankings. Category addresses mapped by pattern rather than one by one land on nothing
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Wholesale relationships. Rebuilt price lists are checked against real orders before any account sees them
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Channel revenue. A stale marketplace listing fails silently, so each one is proved to be updating
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Your history. Order history, customer groups and tracking restart at zero unless carried deliberately
BigCommerce Migration Deliverables
What comes across from your old platform, what you get before the build, and how we prove it worked.
Month One
What comes across
✓Coming from Shopify — When you migrate from Shopify to BigCommerce, the catalog, customers and order records port cleanly. Content held inside apps does not.
✓Coming from WooCommerce — A WooCommerce to BigCommerce migration brings catalog and customer data across. Plugin-held fields, custom tables and subscription authorisations stay behind.
✓Coming from Magento — A Magento to BigCommerce migration brings catalog and customers across. Attribute sets flatten into option sets, and store views become channels or separate storefronts.
✓Coming from a custom or legacy platform — We build the extraction rather than export it, usually straight from the database. What comes across depends on how far your data model normalises.
Months 2-3
Pre-build migration plan
✓The catalog fit report — Your real catalog run against BigCommerce's option and variant ceilings, with a restructuring decision for anything that overflows.
✓Your rebuilt price lists — Customer groups and negotiated pricing rebuilt, then checked line by line against what those accounts actually paid.
✓The URL map — One destination for every address carrying traffic or links, with pattern rules reserved for the long tail.
Ongoing
How we prove it landed
✓Sales channel sync checks — Each marketplace, feed and connected system with its new ID mapping and the evidence it is receiving current data.
✓Live order and refund tests — Payment, tax and shipping proved with real orders end to end before any traffic moves.
✓Storefront and channel sales, tracked apart — Storefront and channel orders, visits and search coverage against the pre-move numbers, with a cause named for every gap.
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Compare BigCommerce Migration Services
Compare BigCommerce migration services by how early they test catalog limits, rebuild wholesale pricing and prove sales channels are updating.
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Live orders and a refund tested before launch
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Tracking rebuilt and confirmed firing
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Find out if your catalog fits before anything is built.
Send your option structure and customer group setup. We will tell you what has to change, before anybody signs.
•Frequently asked questions
Common Questions
Yes, in the sense that matters to you: it is still actively developed and still has a working partner and app ecosystem around it. We will not quote market share numbers we cannot stand behind, because platform figures go stale fast. The useful question is whether its catalog limits fit your store.
•Ready for real growth?
Scope your BigCommerce move.
Tell us what you sell on now and whether you sell to trade. You will get an honest read on the fit.
✓Catalog fit checked first
✓Price list risks named early
✓Clear scope before work starts
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