BigCommerce Multi-Storefront Migration Solution

Overview

For BigCommerce merchants who want a fast and painless migration, StrikeTru offers a turnkey solution that consolidates individual storefronts into a BigCommerce Multi-Storefront (MSF). Multi-Storefront allows merchants to use a single BigCommerce “store” to power multiple “storefronts”. It can be useful for merchants who have multiple brands or who serve multiple segments (like B2C, B2B, retail, and wholesale segments). BigCommerce Multi-Storefront simplifies catalog management, inventory tracking, order processing, and more, thus saving merchants time and money.

Consolidating individual storefronts into an MSF is a manual process that can be costly, complex, and disruptive to business. A significant challenge is that products, variants, brands, customers, customer groups, etc. may be duplicated across stores and must be matched and merged accurately during BigCommerce Multi-Storefront migration. This is to avoid duplicates and maintain data integrity. Another big challenge is the sheer volume of data that must be transferred to MSF quickly without data loss. Another challenge is that some of the single storefront data can’t be readily ported into MSF (e.g., orders tied to deleted products or customers with bad email IDs), and specific approaches are needed to deal with those data issues. Doing all these requires BigCommerce data migration and match/merge skills.

A manual Multi-Storefront migration effort may look like this:

1. Identify individual storefronts to consolidate into MSF
2. Backup your individual storefront data sets (products, customers, orders, themes, webpages, email templates, and other data)
3. Procure a MSF store. Create multiple storefronts.
4. Freeze changes to products, themes, webpages, etc. in your individual storefronts.
5. Compare and match data sets (products, variants, brands, customers, customer groups, etc.) across stores.
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6. Identify data conflicts (name, description, address, price, weight, etc) and data to survive and transfer into MSF. 
7. Create a golden record (or master record) for each data type (product, customer, brand, etc) that needs to be consolidated in MSF.
8. Re-connect the various data sets using the golden record IDs
9. Recreate custom form fields from across individual storefronts in the MSF
10. Load all data sets into MSF
11. Identify all invalid data issues. Remediate and reload/recreate data.
12. Consolidate product inventory counts from across the stores.
13. Iterate Steps 5 through 12 as needed.
14. Recreate user accounts
15. Configure manual store settings in MSF (payment, tax, shipping, domain URLs, etc.) 
16. Reinstall and retest 3rd-party apps.
17. Smoke test and launch the MSF store
18. Email customers advising them on the availability of the MSF store, and instructions to reset their passwords in the MSF store.
19. Unfreeze changes to products, themes, webpages, etc in the MSF store.
20. Retire individual storefronts

The greater the number of stores, products, customers, orders, etc., the higher is the complexity and risk inherent in a BigCommerce Multi-Storefront migration. As stated earlier, you will need plenty of time and know-how to do this migration the right way without disrupting business.

If you don’t have that know-how or the time to learn how to do this right, or if you’re looking to speed up the BigCommerce MSF migration and reduce your risk at the same time, the StrikeTru solution is just right for you.

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Qualification Criteria

You would qualify for the MSF migration service if:

1. You have fewer than 25,000 products in each storefront
2. You have less than 250 variants for a given product
3. You have less than 100 categories on your MSF storefront
4. You have up to 1,000 products per category
5. You have up to 200 orders per minute in each storefront

In addition to BigCommerce’s global platform limits, your MSF storefronts would be subject to the limits based on your primary store’s billing plan.

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