Resources · Checklist
Migrate without losing a single thing
Use this checklist to plan a safe move. Or hand it to your cofounder and let it work through every item.
Start for freeBefore you begin
- Export a full backup of products, customers, orders and content
- List every live URL, including blog posts and landing pages
- Document active discount codes, gift cards and subscriptions
- Note integrations and which data each one depends on
- Record current search rankings for your top fifty pages
During the build
- Import products and verify variants, prices and inventory
- Import customers with consent and marketing preferences intact
- Bring reviews across with original dates and ratings
- Map every old URL to its new destination
- Rebuild email flows and confirm sender authentication
- Reconnect payments, shipping and accounting tools
Before you switch
- Place a test order with every payment method
- Check every page on mobile and desktop
- Confirm redirects return the right pages
- Verify tax and shipping rates for each region
- Set a switch time outside your peak hours
Launch day and after
- 01
Point the domain
Update your domain and watch orders flow into the new store.
- 02
Monitor closely
Check errors, redirects and conversion for the first 72 hours.
- 03
Compare rankings
Review search positions after two weeks and address any drops.
Checklist questions
Can ECOMSE do all of this for me?
Yes. Your cofounder runs the full checklist and reports progress on every item.
What is the most common mistake?
Forgetting redirects. Every old URL must point somewhere useful or rankings suffer.
Hand the checklist to your cofounder
Start free and let ECOMSE run your migration from the first export to the final redirect.