#159: A Guide To Migrating E-Commerce Shopping Carts

Andrew Youderian from E-Commerce Fuel joins us this week to talk about migrating shopping carts and what to look out for. He recently moved from Magento to Shopify for his store Right Channel Radios, and we talk about the process of moving products, customer data, and redesigning a new site.

Topics Discussed:

  • Headaches and issues with Magento
  • How to plan a shopping cart migration
  • What to look out for in product options and configurations
  • DNS, email, and other settings to get correctly
  • How to properly transfer your SEO juice to the new site
  • Tips to redesigning your site while a migration is underway
  • Why you should split testing the UI/UX for a new site
  • Knowing the technical backend of the new shopping cart

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A Guide To Migrating E-Commerce Shopping Carts

Comments

  1. Hi Terry. In the podcast Andrew mentioned a UX company that charged $40 head for UX testing. My ears heard Psycho user but couldn’t find that on the web. Couldn’t find any written show notes. Any idea what that UX company was ?

    Thanks.
    Jeff

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