The Client was facing steep licensing charges in the new billing cycle. With their business model they did not see much value in paying for a platform they were not using to full extent and decided to replatform to BigCommerce. The entire project had to be executed under a very pressing timeline: we only had 1.5 months from start to finish to complete discovery, implementation, testing and data migration before the old platform’s license would expire.

After a thorough discovery the client was advised to pick a marketplace theme and limit the scope of UI customizations to the bare minimum in order to match their brand guidelines.

Custom features had to be added in order to support unique business logic for personalized products, product bundles and product purchasing restrictions.

Most complexity came from the data migration. Client’s catalog is relatively large and contains hundreds of configurable products with variants, including image swatches that had to be migrated over. A complex custom data transformation script had to be written in order to migrate the data without any loss or corruption.