{"id":4274,"date":"2020-03-27T09:33:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T09:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/shopify\/how-does-clear-current-data-on-a-target-store-before-migration-work-on-shopify\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T06:50:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T06:50:29","slug":"how-does-clear-current-data-on-a-target-store-before-migration-work-on-shopify","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/shopify\/how-does-clear-current-data-on-a-target-store-before-migration-work-on-shopify\/","title":{"rendered":"How does \u201cClear data on Target Store before migration\u201d work on Shopify?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our Additional Option <strong><i>\u201cClear data on Target Store before migration\u201d<\/i><\/strong>  removes existing data from your Shopify store before the migration begins. It only clears the entity types you have selected for migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, if you select <strong>Products<\/strong> and <strong>Categories<\/strong>, our tool will delete the existing products and related category data on Shopify before transferring their replacements from your source store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Note:<\/strong> Deleted data cannot be restored through our migration tool. We strongly recommend backing up any important data before enabling this option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In case you have any other questions, please email us at <strong>litextension@support.litextension.com<\/strong>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":24,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_tag":[1309],"class_list":["post-4274","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_tag-shopify-migration"],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4274"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7689,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4274\/revisions\/7689"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/23"}],"next":[{"title":"Why can't migrate order date to Shopify?","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/shopify\/why-cant-migrate-order-date-to-shopify\/","href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4279"}],"prev":[{"title":"How to disable notifications of new orders on Shopify?","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/shopify\/disable-new-orders-notifications-on-shopify\/","href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=4274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}