Ecommerce website migration away from BigCommerce/Shopify to WordPress

by a searcher from Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business

1 year ago

Has anyone had a good experience with a firm or contractor to lead a website migration from BigCommerce (or Shopify) to Wordpress?  I've received lots of inbound sales emails from offshore firms trying to win the project, but it's hard to gauge how good they are. Personal recommendations would be great! Thanks all.

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searcher from Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business

Shopify is just the hub of everything we do and it talks to everything else. It’s fantastic, it makes life so much easier.

10 months ago | like reply | 0 likes

searcher from Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business

Thanks all for the great comments! I think it might surprise some folks how popular Woo Commerce is - it powers around 40% of global e-commerce sites compared to Shopify's 10%. https://www.cloudways.com/blog/top-ecommerce-platforms/. Although in US that number is much closer. For full context I currently own different stores on both Shopify and Big Commerce and both platforms are super easy and great out of the box solutions for most. The reason I want to migrate to Woo Commerce (Wordpress) is because of cost and also flexibility. Re costs, At the enterprise level the monthly fees on Big Commerce including apps is over $1,500. This is basically free on Woo Commerce once it's built out (although for sure there will be some expenses to maintain the site). So if I can invest a few thousand dollars on a migration it's probably a good return. Re flexibility, Big Commerce is pretty rigid and there are many applications on Woo Commerce - particularly around product customizations and web to print - that just aren't readily available on Big Commerce. It's a tough decision for sure! It would be very easy to stay on Big Commerce and keep paying those hefty fees knowing that it just works.

Thanks again for all the great comments and feedback!

11 months ago | like reply | 1 like

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