MIGRATE TO PRESTASHOP

The choice of migration offer depends on your specific needs, the complexity of your store and your budget:

1. Migration module: Ideal for technical users with a limited budget and simple needs.
2. Agency migration: Perfect for complex needs with a high level of customization. Price on request, quite high.
3. PrestaShop support offer: Recommended for users with little technical knowledge and simple needs. A secure and optimized migration with official support.

1. Migration by PrestaShop: From €1200 excl. tax, depending on the complexity of your store and the features to be migrated.
2. Migration via agencies: Prices vary depending on the agency and the complexity of the project, but generally, the cost is between €2,000 and €10,000 excl. tax or more for a custom migration.

1. Creation of product listings: Quickly create product listings, including for digital products and variants with combinations.
2. Category management: Organize your products with categories and subcategories.
3. Inventory tracking: Manage the inventory of each product and set up stock alerts.
4. Store customization: Set up payment, shipping, and tax methods.
5. Integrated SEO: Optimize the SEO of your store and your product pages.
6. Multi-store: Manage multiple stores from a single administration interface.
7. Simplified checkout: Set up a one-page order process for a seamless customer experience.
8. Internationalization: Adapt your store to different markets with multi-currency and multi-language support.
9. Integrated CRM: Manage customer accounts, track orders and improve loyalty.
10. Advanced reporting: Get detailed reports on product sales, traffic and performance.

Migrating to PrestaShop gives you maximum flexibility, optimized costs, enhanced security, and total ownership of your data. Take advantage of an active community, a scalable ecosystem, numerous integrations with external solutions, and a wide network of expert agencies to support you.

1. Initial assessment: Analyze your needs and conduct an audit of your current store.
2. Planning: Select the migration offer that best suits your needs and plan each step, including post-migration testing.
3. Preparation: Download and install PrestaShop on your server.
4. Data migration: Back up your data. Export and import your products, customers, orders, etc., in PrestaShop.
5. Configuration: Customize your theme and configure the necessary modules.
6. Testing and validation: Test the features and performance, then validate the data migration.
7. Upload: Redirect the URLs and launch your new PrestaShop store.

To migrate custom themes or features, it is often necessary to recreate or adapt these elements for PrestaShop. This can include redesigning the theme to make it compatible or developing specific modules to replicate custom features. That’s why, if your store has these special features, it’s best to turn to an agency for the migration.

First, why consider a migration? Make a list of the advantages and disadvantages of your current solution to establish a complete specification of your needs.

Which solution best meets my specifications? Which one will offer the most flexibility?

Am I ready to learn how to use this new ecommerce solution?

Am I able to do it myself? If not, do I have the budget to use an agency or PrestaShop services?

Do I have the time to go through this time-consuming process right now?

How is my current solution indexed, and would it be beneficial to keep the URL history?

Will it be possible to set up a redirection plan when my new site launches?

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