Mike is CEO and founder of a natural skincare brand in USA. After 8 years of developing, her company has stores in Boston, New York, Newport and many other cities. Norman is technical manager. He built online store on Volusion shopping cart, which received thousands of visits per month.

Earlier this year, their company had necessary to convert Volusion to WooCommerce cart to increase website performance and control online store easily. Norman hired a company to migrate data with basic price at $69. However, total amount payable is approximately $485 including a migration process, four additional options (persevering Order IDs, Customer IDs, Product IDs on Target Store and transferring images in product descriptions to Target Store). This price is four times higher than basic price. Because his company had to pay for addition features that is not included in original price. Unfortunately, the first migration is not successful. After migrating to WooCommerce, he realized that many images of products in new site are lost. He tried finding in back-end. An error in migration causes your website to loose product images.

The technology company recommends him two options to solve this case. The first option is trying with re-migration service to perform online store migration all over again with discount a half of price. It means that each re-migration service has price at 50% of current full migration price. However, there are nothing to be sure migration process will be the last migration. In bad situation, he must migrate database many times. The second option is using Data Migration Assistant Service. This service can help Skincare Company to save time to move data and increase ability to migrate successfully. A main problem is that its cost is very high. Norman presented with Mike that price of this service for website with 8,000 entities was higher than current total amount payable. It was about $600. The incurred expenses were too expensive, far more than they expected. The minimum cost to solve the problem of loosing images is approximately $250. It tends to increase. They were so worried about this problem.

Two options of Technology Company did not make Norman feel comfortable. He looked for helps from the shopping cart communities, social networks, forums. He received many different advice. Luckily, he told to Alex Nguyen, an information technology expert with more than 10 years of experience in web development and e-commerce solutions. Norman described his issue clearly. Alex Nguyen analyzed situations, supported information carefully. Converting database from source store to target store is not simple. It can happen many errors in the migration process. Probability of success in the first migration is quite low, especially complex sites. After long conversations, Norman decided to choose different migration tool of LitExtension instead of trying options of hired technology company. Loosing approximately $500, it was not an easy decision. However, he believed that LitExtension migration tool could help his company to move data to WooCommerce cheap and quickly.

After proposing to CEO of Skincare Company, he purchased and downloaded tool from LitExtension website. It seems that migration steps are easier than old tool. He was surprised, because this tool can migrate customer password while many companies say it is impossible. He received more benefits, more free additional features such as re-migration, recent data migration. Total price is less than a half price of old company’s tool. The most important thing is no incurred expenses.

Source: http://blog.litextension.com/what-is-cost-incurred-when-migrating-from-your-store-to-dream-shopping-cart/