Music Delivery: migrating a professional catalog from PrestaShop to Shopify

Redesign · Technical Partner

A complex project for a professional audio, video, lighting and special-effects eCommerce business: more than twelve years of history to migrate, tens of thousands of SKUs, orders and customers to preserve, and commercial functionality to rebuild on Shopify.

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Project overview

12+ years

Historical data accumulated on PrestaShop had to be transferred without losing its value.

Tens of thousands

Products and professional references in a broad technical catalog.

Complete migration

Products, customers, orders and categories, preserving the relationships between records.

Custom development

Features, advanced displays, automations and integrations rebuilt for Shopify.

Starting point

Music Delivery operates in professional audio, video, lighting and special effects, combining product sales with consulting, system design and installation services. The move from PrestaShop to Shopify was driven by the need to reduce maintenance complexity without losing years of accumulated history.

The new ecosystem had to support a very large technical catalog, financing and instalment payments, operating rental, management-system integrations and an experience suitable both for professionals and for customers who need guidance.

The challenge: migrate data without losing its meaning

The main difficulty was not simply importing products, but keeping the relationships between customers, orders and historical references coherent while rebuilding the business functions needed on Shopify.

The project also required rethinking pages, navigation and interfaces to make a professional catalog ranging from mixers, microphones and audio interfaces to lighting, video and special effects easier to manage.

From PrestaShop to Shopify

The platform changed while useful historical data was preserved and data, functionality and processes were redesigned for Shopify.

Prima

An ecosystem that had become difficult to evolve

  • More than 12 years of historical data
  • Complex updates and maintenance
  • Technical and tracking issues
  • Features accumulated over time
  • Large catalog, variants and integrations

IFG's work

Data migration

Products, customers, orders, categories and the relationships between them.

New Shopify theme

Redesign and reconstruction of the storefront on Shopify.

Complex catalog

Management of a large number of products, variants and technical information.

Payments and financing

Support for instalment-payment and financing flows required by the business.

Integrations and automations

Connections to management processes and automations rebuilt around Shopify.

Tracking

Correction of data-tracking issues identified in the previous ecosystem.

The outcome

Music Delivery now uses a Shopify store that combines a very broad professional catalog with consulting services, financing, operating rental and content dedicated to projects and installations. The migration also restored data tracking that had presented issues in the previous ecosystem.

The relationship continues after launch: I remain in contact with the team for technical needs, optimisations and future store developments.

A complex migration also described by the client

Music Delivery's public feedback in the Shopify Partner Directory mentions the ecosystem rebuild, the migration of more than twelve years of PrestaShop history and the work on the new Shopify theme. It is the project that best represents the combination of migration, web design, custom development and ongoing support at IFG.

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