Migrating Overview

If you already have an ecommerce website or are using a different ecommerce platform for your business, it's important to make sure that your product information and other content make it to Invotide.

There are a number of considerations you should be aware of when you're migrating your store to Invotide:

Remove specific protocols from your assets

Make sure that all your store assets (theme files, stylesheets, or images) are always accessible by removing specific protocols such as http: and https: from their URLs.

Set up redirects

Make sure you set up URL redirects for pages that customers might have bookmarked. This will minimize the risk of losing customers who return to a page and find it unavailable after you've migrated to Invotide.

Steps:
  1. Log in to the platform that you're migrating from.
  2. Find the URL redirects section in your account settings. The placement of this varies by platform. If you're unable to find where to add URL redirects, search the Help Center of the platform you're migrating from.
  3. Enter your old URL in the from field and a new Invotide URL in the to field.
  4. Repeat this process for all the URLs you want to redirect.

Example of setting up URL redirects during migration

Seller A is migrating his online apparel store to Invotide. His best-selling product is a plaid, button-up shirt. A link to the shirt was shared on a popular blog recently and is generating a lot of traffic, but the link is to his old store. To make sure he doesn't lose potential customers, Seller A sets up a URL redirect for this product page by following these steps:

  1. He logs into his original e-commerce platform and goes to the URL Redirects section.
  2. He clicks Add new URL redirect.
  3. In the Redirect from field he adds the original product page URL: http://www.example.oldstore.com/plaid-button-up
  4. In the Redirect to field he adds the new Invotide product page URL: http://www.example.invotide.com/products/plaid-button-up
  5. He clicks Add redirect.

Customers who click the link to Seller A's best-selling product on his original online store will now be automatically redirected to the same product page on his new Invotide store.

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