Replatform to Shopify with the risks mapped before you commit.

In practice, migration is the execution — moving products, customers, orders, content, and URLs into Shopify. Replatforming is the wider decision and program around it: whether to move at all, what happens to the systems attached to the store, how the work is sequenced, and who owns the result afterwards. A small store move is just a migration. Once an ERP, a fulfillment provider, or several storefronts are involved, the migration becomes one workstream inside a replatform.

That is what the assessment is for. We look at what the current platform actually prevents — releases you cannot ship, markets you cannot open, manual work that grows with order volume — and weigh it against the cost of staying, including upgrades and maintenance already committed. Sometimes the honest answer is that a specific constraint is cheaper to fix in place, and we would rather tell you that early.

It depends on your integrations and catalog, not on preference. A single cutover is simpler to reason about and shorter to run in parallel with the old system. Phasing helps when regions, brands, or B2B and D2C separate cleanly, or when one integration cannot be ready in time. We recommend a shape after the systems inventory and write down the reasoning, so the decision can be revisited on evidence rather than memory.

They are inventoried early, because they usually set the schedule. Each connection is re-mapped to Shopify's APIs, replaced by an app where one genuinely fits, or handled through a middleware layer. Anything that cannot be ready for launch is either phased or given a documented interim process, rather than discovered during cutover week.

Long enough that we will not quote it before the assessment. The variables that matter are the number of connected systems, the condition of the data, how much of the current experience has to be reproduced, and how quickly decisions can be made on your side. The assessment gives you a range and the assumptions behind it, so you can see what would move it.

Yes, and on replatforming work that is often the arrangement. Internal teams hold the operational knowledge, and we bring the Shopify architecture and delivery. We agree who owns which workstream and where decisions get recorded before the build starts, because that is the part that causes friction later.