Moving your Ecommerce store to BigCommerce - reasons to replatform

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Darren

Overseeing the research and development of digital products which keep Nzime moving forward as well as managing legal, compliance and hosting.

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Replatforming is not a decision to be taken lightly. It affects many aspects of an ecommerce business, requires buy-in from stakeholders across different departments and can create concerns over how existing systems and processes would fit into the new site.

While replatforming might be a big investment, it is often the right decision. Once a business is successfully moved over to a new platform it can lead to big savings and incredible growth.

After many years working with the same CMS it's always easy to stick with what you know, but as technology moves so fast in the digital commerce industry it's also very easy to be left behind whilst your competitors move onto more capable, secure and scaleable systems.

You might find that your site becomes unstable and unreliable when handling peak traffic conditions, the upgrade path for the CMS becomes more difficult and costly to implement as well as maintaining compatibility with third party modules, limitations with the API for providing headless commerce becomes problematic and these are just a few of the consequences of trying to maintain outdated technology.
This of course ultimately affects your customers, your Google ranking and further compounds the frustration of maintaining your online store.

The past few years have seen big developments in the capabilities of SaaS (Software as a Service) platforms such as BigCommerce, a cloud based solution that can scale to grow with your business and removes a lot of the technical administration required by traditional on-premise CMS' such as Magento, Wordpress, Drupal, etc.

Because BigCommerce removes the need to maintain your own website hosting platform by providing it's own secure (PCI compliant), reliable (99.9% uptime), auto-scaling hosting architecture, the customer is free to concentrate on administering their store.
Updates to the CMS itself are automatically applied seamlessly with zero downtime and no additional cost to the customer.

Functionality for the latest commerce opportunities such as omni-channel selling is fully supported and provides greater opportunities to sell and maintain your products via additional channels such as Amazon and eBay.

Nzime are now an official BigCommerce Partner and can work with you to get your site moved, help maintain your existing BigCommerce site or even set up your new store if you're starting from scratch.
Concentrating on three steps to replatforming, we'll guide you through data migration, service integration and UX/UI reviews to maximise the effectiveness of your new site right from launch.