Audit of the store you run today
Every app, theme edit and manual workaround on the current store is listed, and each is marked to be built into the new store, connected to it, or dropped.
PLATE P.5.2 — ECOMMERCE REPLATFORMING
Ecommerce replatforming: moving your store onto code you own
Replatforming is moving a live store off Shopify, WooCommerce or Magento onto software written for it, carrying the products, customers and order history across and keeping the addresses search engines already rank. It is for merchants who have outgrown a platform's rules or the apps that fill its gaps. Ozwebnet writes the new store from scratch in Adelaide, South Australia, for businesses across Australia; you receive the source code with the IP assigned to you, under one fixed quote staged against milestones.
DETAIL OF SHEET 05 — ONLINE STORES →
GENERAL NOTES
02 / 07
What is ecommerce replatforming?
Replatforming is rebuilding a store that already trades — on Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento or another hosted platform — as software written for that business, then moving the live trade across. The catalogue, customer accounts and order history are exported from the old platform, cleaned and loaded into the new store's own database. Every product and category address is mapped to its new home, so the pages search engines already rank keep resolving. The old store keeps trading until test orders pass on the new one, and the domain is switched in one planned cutover.
SECTION A–A
03 / 07
Who should replatform their online store rather than stay where it is?
- BUILT FOR
- Merchants on Shopify, WooCommerce or Magento whose catalogue, pricing or fulfilment now runs on a stack of apps and workarounds, and who want to hold the code that runs their sales.
- REPLACES
- The hosted platform and its app subscriptions, the theme edits layered on over the years, and the exports that carry orders from the store to the rest of the business.
- NOT FOR
- A store its platform still serves well, or one whose only problem is a dated theme — that is a new theme, not a replatform, and we will say so.
SCHEDULE OF WORKS
04 / 07
What is included in an ecommerce replatforming build?
Migration of products, customers and order history
Catalogue, variants, images, customer accounts and past orders are exported from the old platform, cleaned and loaded into the new store's own database. Where the old platform will not release password hashes, returning customers set a new password on first login and the store tells them so.
URL map and redirects
Every product, category and content address on the old store is mapped to its new address and redirected, so pages that already rank and links in old emails keep resolving.
Payment gateway and shipping rules carried across
The gateway you already use and the shipping rates and zones you charge today are set up on the new store, so checkout and delivery charges work as they do now.
Rebuilt connections to accounting, warehouse and email
What the old apps did between the store and Xero, MYOB, your warehouse or your email marketing tool is rebuilt as direct connections from the new store to those systems.
Parallel running and test orders on a private address
The old store keeps trading while the new one runs on a private address with a fresh copy of the data; staff place, pay, pick and refund test orders until they pass.
Cutover: final data load, domain switch, redirects live
The last export is loaded, the domain is pointed at the new store and the redirects go live in one planned cutover; once live orders are flowing, the old platform can be closed.
TYPICAL SCOPE FOR THIS KIND OF SYSTEM — YOUR EXACT SCOPE IS FIXED IN WRITING AT THE SPECIFICATION STAGE.
Not sure which? Ten minutes on 1300 699 321 tells you — Mon–Fri 9–5 ACST.
STAGES
05 / 07
How is an ecommerce replatform built and priced?
One fixed quote, set in writing at the specification stage (02 Blueprint) and staged against the five milestones below. Each milestone ends with a working system; stop at any milestone and keep what has been built.
SEE THE FIVE STAGES ANIMATED →- 01 SURVEY
Discovery
We list what the current store does — every app, theme edit and workaround — and take a first export of its data.
- 02 BLUEPRINT
Specification
The new store, the data to carry across and the URL map are specified in writing; the fixed quote is set here.
- 03 FORGE
Build
Built against a copy of your live data while the old store keeps trading; each milestone ends with a working store.
- 04 TEMPER
Testing
Migrated records are checked against the old platform, every redirect is tested, and test orders are placed, paid and refunded on the private address.
- 05 DEPLOY
Launch
The domain is switched in one planned cutover, and you receive the source code with the IP assigned to you.
REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
06 / 07
Questions before you call
RFI-01Will we lose our search rankings when the store moves?
Every product, category and content address on the old store is mapped to its new address and redirected, so the pages that already rank keep resolving. No ranking can be promised; what is in scope is a redirect for every old address.
RFI-02Does the old store keep trading while the new one is built?
Yes. The new store is built and tested on a private address against a copy of your data, and the domain is switched in one planned cutover once test orders pass.
RFI-03Can our customers still log in after the move?
Customer accounts and order history come across. Where the old platform will not release password hashes, returning customers set a new password on first login, and the store tells them so.
RFI-04How much does ecommerce replatforming cost?
One fixed quote, set in writing before the build and staged against milestones.
RFI-05Do we own the new store?
Yes — source code delivered, IP assigned to you. The store is yours to change, move or hand to another developer.
RFQ — REQUEST FOR QUOTE
07 / 07
Get a fixed quote for an ecommerce replatform.
Call, or answer a few short questions — what you run, what breaks, when you need it working — and we reply within one business day. The quote is fixed in writing before any build starts.