Volusion to Shopify Migration - A Complete Guide

Have you made up your mind to switch from Volusion to Shopify? But when you want to move your store from Volusion to Shopify things can get complicated. Though, we can make it easy for you with our most delinquent series - The Migration Center.

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Why migrate from Volusion to Shopify?

Unlimited Scaling

Generally scaling up your site is often a tricky situation with Volusion because of restrict access of source code, & you tend to get stuck with the cookie-cutter features provided by Volusion.

However, scaling up the site is always a complicated situation with Volusion due to limited source code access, and you appear to be stuck with Volusion's cookie-cutter functionality.

Therefore, as per those problems with Volusion, Shopify is the next logical step if you'd like a clean interface to scale up and get more customers to your online store.

Hence, you made the right choice, so no turning back!

Ease of Use

Simplicity is the hulklimegreen draw of Shopify that enables every beginner to do customization and other necessary things in building the eCommerce store.

Find Shopify's basic editing tools quite handy. The set of tools also is supported by the 'undo' button, giving every developer great flexibility to take control of the customization functions.

Volusion, on the other hand, makes things too complicated for developers. It offers dual functionalities for the store interface and backend, forcing you to toggle between two interfaces.

Sales Features

When it comes to powering your eCommerce business, Shopify leads the battle in comparison with Volusion. Shopify offers multitudes of sales features giving you significant boost in building customer experiences.

Shopify comes up with the most comprehensive set of sales features with the power of excellent social media integrations and a large app store. All make up for a great channel to foster sales on different platforms.

Except for robust analytics tools, you can get nothing more to improve the selling capabilities of your store on Volusion.

Design

As an aspiring merchant, you can build your store on Shopify by leveraging its high-performance and feature-rich themes. You can get ten free themes. However, if you don't mind shelling out some little higher amount on advanced themes, you can easily get them between $140 and $180.

Each of the templates is mobile responsive, meaning your store can look great on any screen size.

Volusion has a very limited number of themes, whereas their paid themes are quite expensive. Much to your woes, it does not give design flexibility, making site management difficult via a mobile device.

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What data can be transferred from Volusion to Shopify?

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Design

  • Rapid Shopify Recurring Orders
  • Pixel Perfect
  • Mirror Design
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Products

  • Bulk Upload
  • Manually Add
  • Copy Options
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Applications

  • Migrate Existing Apps
  • Integrate New Apps
  • Custom App Solution
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Orders

  • Copy Over
  • Map With Customers
  • Set Order Status
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Customers

  • Bulk Upload
  • Notify Customers
  • Re-Activate Profile
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Content

  • Pages
  • Content
  • Media Files
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Reviews

  • Import Reviews
  • Map With Products
  • Review App Integration
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Optimization

  • Speed Improvement
  • 301 SEO Redirection
  • Webmaster - Analytics

Pre-Migration Tips

Migration brings a whole lot of risk with it. One can avoid it by taking advantage of dedicated Shopify migration services. Check our migration tips prior to jumpstarting your project.

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Automated Migration Tools

Volusion to Shopify migration needs expert assistance. Automated migration tools are there. But, they are not complete for more complex products. Get HulkApps migration services.

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Complex Customizations

Extended levels of complex customizations are your utmost necessity. We do theme setup, tab setup, integrate channels like Amazon, POS, and other channels. Get things ahead of time before migration.

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Store Access Information

Before you begin the Shopify migration, ensure you have store access information. It includes store admin panel access, API password, and FTP access. Now, you can choose your plan and install Shopify.

Post-migration actions to maintain SEO ranking

Switch domain

Once you have completed the migration of all of your data from SFCC to Shopify, you must first move your old domain to the new Shopify store by following the following steps:

Unlock your domain and obtain a code to transfer authorization. All you need to do is log in to your account with your third-party domain provider and find the domain settings you want to switch to, then press Unlock.

You may have to confirm these changes by email, depending on your domain provider. If so, the domain transfer process takes up to 20 days to complete. Shopify will give you a message confirming the successful transfer of your domain.

Step 1

From your Shopify admin panel, click "Online Store" -> "Domains" -> "Transfer domains".

Step 2

Enter the domain that you want to transfer to Shopify, Click "Next".

Step 3

Click "Verify domain". You will see a "Domain unlocked" message.

Step 4

In the Verification code box, enter the authorization code and Click "Next" -> "Buy and transfer".

Are you ready to migrate your store from Volusion to Shopify?

HulkApps has successfully migrated customers to Shopify from a range of platforms and recognises all the elements that make a successful migration possible. Our team will guide you through every step of the process, from careful evaluation of your current data mapping to data monitoring once you have migrated to Shopify, ensuring that the migration is easy and without error.

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