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Big Cartel To Shopify Migration

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Big Cartel to Shopify migration provided by LitExtension helps to transfer your important data including products, customers, orders, blogs and other related entities. The process will be completed automatically, securely, and accurately.

What Data Can Be Migrated From Big Cartel To Shopify

  • Products

    • Name, SKU, Full Description, Status, Manufacturer, Weight.
    • Price, Special Price.
    • Stock Status, Manage Stock, Quantity.
    • Meta Title, Meta Description.
    • Product Tags.
    • Barcode.
    • Variants: SKU, Weight, Attributes, Quantity, Price, Special Price, Name, Thumbnail Image.
    • Additional Images.
    • Metafields.

    Products Categories

    • Name, Description.
    • Image.
    • Meta Title, Meta Description.
    • First Name, Last Name, Email.
    • Newsletter.
    • Billing Address:
      First Name, Last Name, Company, Address 1, Address 2, Country, State, City, Zip Code. Telephone, .
    • Shipping Address:
      First Name, Last Name, Company, Address 1, Address 2, Country, State, City, Zip Code, Telephone.
    • Order Number.
    • Order Status.
    • First Name, Last Name, Email.
    • Billing Address:
      First Name, Last Name, Company, Address 1, Address 2, Country, State, City, Zip Code, Telephone, Fax.
    • Shipping Address:
      First Name, Last Name, Company, Address 1, Address 2, Country, State, City, Zip Code, Telephone.
    • Order Items (Name, SKU, Option), Product Price, Quantity.
    • Sub Price, Discount Price, Tax Price, Shipping Price, Total Price.
    • Order Comments.
    • Name.
    • Coupon Code, Coupon Date, Coupon Expire Date.
    • Created Date.
    • Rate.
    • User Name.
    • Title.
    • Comment.
    • Title, Description.
    • URL.
    • Image.
    • Categories.
    • Title, Description.
    • Categories.
    • SEO URLs.
    • Images.
    • Products (Name, Description, Attribute)
    • Categories (Name, Description)
    • CMS Page (Name, Description)
    • Blogs (Name, Description)

(*) Please note that the data listed above may vary depending on your Source Store.

Additional Options

Clear Sample Data On Shopify Before Migration

You can delete the sample data on Shopify in accordance with selected entities for migration… More Details

Preserve Order IDs on Shopify Store

This option helps keep your order ID the same during your store migration… More Details

Create 301 Redirects on Shopify Store

Automatically redirect your old store’s URLs to the new ones during the migration… More Details

Migrate Images from Products, Categories, Blog Descriptions

This option helps you to migrate images in descriptions of products, categories, and blog posts… More Details

Strip HTML Tags from Category and Product Names

Strip HTML tags from category and product names automatically when migrating your store More Details

Migrate Categories into Shopify Automated Collections

Automatically add tags to your products. You can show sub-categories just like in your Source Store… More Details

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How to Perform Big Cartel to Shopify Migration

Setup Carts
#1: Set-up Big Cartel and Shopify Stores

Select Big Cartel as “Source Cart” and Shopify as “Target Cart” from dropdown list. Enter store URL and follow brief instructions to set up the carts.

Select Entites
#2: Select Data You Want To Migrate to Shopify

Choose the entities you want to migrate from Big Cartel to Shopify such as products, product categories, customers, orders, and even more.

Full Migration
#3: Perform Full Replatforming to Shopify

Let’s start the migration from Big Cartel to Shopify. Once the migration process is kicked off, it will constantly run even when you turn off your browser.

The cost of migration from to depends on how many entities you have on your store. The Pricing Estimator will help you to get how much does it cost. The pricing is billed in USD.
  • Number of Products
  • Number of Customers
  • Number of Orders

Popular Questions About Big Cartel to Shopify Migration

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Why my product variants were not migrated to Shopify?

Due to the peculiarities of Shopify functionality, it sets limits for product variants. Thus, it is not allowed to migrate each product with more than 99 variants and 3 attributes from any shopping cart to Shopify.

Can I migrate options and attributes to Shopify?

Shopify doesn’t allow creating product options and attributes. So, you cannot migrate options and attributes to Shopify. But don’t worry, if your Source Cart has this type of data, during the data migration process, LitExtension will generate product variants out of your existing product options on your Target Shopify Store.

Regarding attributes, to have product descriptions displayed, our tool will import them to meta fields on Shopify.

Note that, due to Shopify’s limitations, any product on Shopify only has less than 99 variants. As a result, your products will be migrated to Shopify with no more than 99 variants and 3 attributes.

Can I migrate categories and subcategories of products to Shopify?

Yes, you can possibly migrate categories and subcategories of products to Shopify. However, in Shopify, products will be located under collections only.
Therefore, all categories and subcategories of products from the Source Store will be changed into collections in Shopify. [Read More]

How can I check product meta fields on Shopify?

As you may have known, custom fields are not available on Shopify. However, the platform offers meta fields. Please Click here for more understanding.
By default, our migration tool imports product attributes from your source store to meta fields on your Target Store. To have them displayed on Shopify admin, you will have to install the Metafields Guru app. Please click here for more details.

Can I migrate several languages to Shopify?

Unfortunately, you cannot migrate several languages to Shopify. In this case, you can use an app that will allow to translate the storefront into multiple languages or exploit several stores.

Will my customer passwords be migrated to Shopify?

No way to migrate passwords from other platforms to Shopify, since each shopping cart has its own password encryption peculiarities, moreover Shopify was the hosted eCommerce solution and none can touch to Shopify database to check Shopify password encryption.

Can I migrate reviews to Shopify?

Yes, you can migrate reviews to Shopify. [Read More]

Why does migration to Shopify take so long?

To ensure the platform remains stable and fair for everyone, all Shopify APIs are rate-limited. Shopify APIs use several different rate-limiting methods. [Read More]

Why my product SKU couldn’t be migrated to Shopify?

On Shopify, SKUs are provided only for variants and simple products (products with no variants). Therefore, SKUs from your Source Store will be imported to variants or simple products on Shopify Store. That’s why you can’t migrate product SKU that are not simple product.

Why can’t migrate order date to Shopify?

Our migration tool imports data to Shopify via API which has some limitations. One limitation is that we cannot import the “created_at” date time, but it is autogenerated by Shopify instead. Click here for more details. That’s why you see the same date/time as migration data/time instead of the actual date/time.

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How Your Data Is Secured During Migration?

We at LitExtension prioritize data security and have a set of practices, technologies and policies in place to ensure the highest level of security for your data. Check out our Data Security Policy.
Server Security

Server Security

All migration jobs will be carried out on Linode servers located in the USA, Euro, Australia, Singapore,…
Server Security

Data Security

The data is protected by HTTPS secure protocol and 128-bit SSL encryption. Nothing is stored on LitExtension’s servers.
Server Security

Data Access Restriction

Only authorized LitExtension experts can access the source code to handle custom migration requests.
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GDPR Compliance

LitExtension is compliant with GDPR regulations, a global data protection law passed by the European Union.
Server Security

NDA

We do not keep your credentials or import records after the migration. Your data is guaranteed not to be disclosed or used for any other purposes rather than the migration.
Server Security

Payment Security

Your payment is processed by Paypal – the #1 worldwide payment gateway. Hence, LitExtension does not store any payment data.

Why Choose Us

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Ensure no missing data with 3 months of Free & Unlimited Recent Migrations, Re-migrations and Smart Update.
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  • Jocelyn
    Australia

    I am in the process of moving my existing website over to Shopify. As this is my 4th iteration of my website, I knew I didn’t want to do the migration part myself again! Using this service meant that I could concentrate on running my business for a couple of days while the migration was being done for me.

  • Alex
    US

    Lotus was phenomenal! She is detailed-oriented and works extremely fast! She helped with the migration from Wix to Shopify in no time. Thank you so much Lotus and everyone at LitExtension!

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    Australia

    It was great service from those guys! Verry complex case with very old Woocommerce to new Woocommerce store!

  • Jen Gerard
    Australia

    I built our new Shopify site myself but with no developer experience. I really struggled migrating products, customers and order history. It was a bit overwhelming until I found Lit. They helped me set it up and did the contract. Emailed me at every stage and listened to my feedback. I found them on Thursday and by Monday the work was completed.

  • Jack Barker
    United Kingdom

    Took most of the work off our hands. The team were great and went out of their way to get the migration from J2store to Shopify completed. The time zone differences were slightly difficult but that didn’t stop the work from being completed.

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