Building upon the narratives in parts 1 and 2, this third part invites you to delve into the stories of the remaining brands within the series of 15 that migrate from Magento to Shopify Plus. Explore how this strategic decision has led to their success in terms of sales and paved the way for sustainable growth in the future.

Learn more:

• 15 brands migrate from Magento to Shopify Plus Pt.1

• 15 brands migrate from Magento to Shopify Plus Pt.2

Beard & Blade

Beard & Blade is a wholesale business specializing in providing products for hair styling, beard care, and beauty and skincare for men. The brand is known for offering high-quality products tailored for men who aim to maintain their appearance and well-being.

Beard & Blade’s wholesale website was initially built and developed on the Magento eCommerce platform. However, according to the Beard & Blade team, operating the wholesale system on this platform proved to be challenging and required numerous manual tasks.

This resulted in time loss, and the overall cost for their wholesale system to operate on Magento was a considerable amount. Therefore, the brand decided to revamp its platform with Shopify Plus.

After considerable efforts, Beard & Blade’s Shopify Plus wholesale website for men’s products was officially launched.

By utilizing Shopify Plus’s dedicated solutions for wholesalers, Beard & Blade was able to automate inventory management, customize product pricing, and set discount levels based on the quantity of products ordered.

In contrast to the previous operational experience on Magento, wholesale orders on Shopify Plus are processed consistently, without interruptions, and without requiring manual tasks, thus avoiding disruptions to the customer experience.

Since the launch of the new website on Shopify Plus, Beard & Blade’s wholesale revenue has increased by 100%, and the average order value (AOV) for wholesale is five times higher than the retail AOV.

• Website: https://www.beardandblade.com.au/
• Industry: Beauty
• Traffic: 181.7K/month
• Ranking: 5,896 (Australia) & 247,720 (Worldwide)

Milligram

Milligram is a fashion and stationery brand headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. The brand primarily focuses on producing and providing stationery products, including notebooks, pens, and bags made from premium materials with unique designs.

Initially, Milligram built its eCommerce website on the Shopify platform, and later, in pursuit of brand growth, switched to using the Magento platform. After a while, as Milligram expanded its scale with more offline stores, the Magento website system started to operate slowly, and the backend database was overloaded.

Errors and delays occurred during updates, causing disruptions beyond the normal timeframe. Therefore, Milligram returned to Shopify, but this time opting for the advanced version – Shopify Plus.

Leveraging the available solutions of Shopify Plus, Milligram built and customized advanced features, such as an enhanced search function, to provide an optimal shopping experience for customers.

The platform transition from Magento to Shopify Plus was swift and smooth. Milligram easily executes promotional campaigns, uploads products without requiring technical skills, and finds managing and operating the Shopify Plus system more straightforward compared to Magento.

This allows Milligram to focus wholeheartedly on sales, marketing, and enhancing customer relationships.

• Website: https://milligram.com/
• Industry: Home Furnishing
• Traffic: 152.7K/month
• Ranking: 4,971 (Australia) & 262,058 (Worldwide)

Eden Park

Eden Park is a prestigious fashion brand originating from France, renowned for its high-end sportswear and fashion products. The brand specializes in providing premium sports and fashion items, with their collections often combining a blend of comfortable and luxurious styles.

In 2021, Eden Park turned its attention to Shopify when contemplating entry into the U.S. market. Moreover, at that time, Eden Park’s eCommerce website faced numerous operational issues.

Bastien Borget, the eCommerce Director of Eden Park, admitted that the business spent approximately 80% of its time operating the Magento website, yet the system consistently experienced errors, and the maintenance incurred substantial costs.

During Black Friday, the Magento website crashed due to overload from a sudden surge in traffic. At that point, Eden Park decided to revamp its platform with Shopify Plus, utilizing solutions within the Shopify ecosystem such as Shopify Payment and Shopify Flow.

Additionally, the superior integration capabilities of Shopify Plus allowed Eden Park to seamlessly integrate with third-party applications like Klaviyo, Gorgias, and Babak.

Eden Park’s Shopify Plus eCommerce website took less than 2 months to launch. One year after the introduction of the new website, Eden Park’s revenue increased by 30%, and the conversion rate rose by 48%.

The solutions provided by Shopify Plus alleviated the operational burden for Eden Park, allowing the business to allocate more time to marketing and sales rather than website maintenance, contributing to impressive business results.

• Website: https://www.eden-park.com/en
• Industry: Fashion
• Traffic: 123.9K/month
• Ranking: 11,397 (France) & 304,233 (Worldwide)

Jack Rogers

Jack Rogers is a renowned footwear and fashion accessories brand headquartered in New York, USA. The brand is known for producing stylish sandals with traditional designs and premium materials, making Jack Rogers an icon of aristocratic fashion.

For a prominent fashion brand like Jack Rogers, utilizing a website as a potential sales channel remains crucial. However, the Jack Rogers website operating on the Magento platform began experiencing errors after a certain period.

Tasks such as repairs, changes, system operations, or running marketing campaigns consumed a significant amount of time for the technical team, leading to higher costs for Jack Rogers.

Moreover, inventory management posed challenges, with overselling issues occurring, and inaccuracies in the system’s quantity calculations resulting in revenue loss and a suboptimal customer experience.

Therefore, the Jack Rogers team sought to simplify their system, implement automation processes, and reduce technical burdens to focus on more critical business tasks.

The migration from the Magento platform to Shopify Plus helped Jack Rogers address these challenges. The new Jack Rogers website leveraged Shopify Flow solutions to automate operational, marketing, and sales processes, saving considerable time and labor compared to the manual processes of the previous Magento website.

Jack Rogers also utilized Shopify Plus Certified App applications to enhance the customer experience, including Returnly, Smile, Gorgias, and others.

During the Covid-19 social distancing period, Jack Rogers’ Shopify Plus website became the primary sales channel for the brand, experiencing a 60% increase in website traffic and a 30% increase in conversion rates.

• Website: https://www.jackrogersusa.com/
• Industry: Fashion 
• Traffic: 94.6K/month
• Ranking: 87,533 (USA) & 554,978 (Worldwide)

Skin Inc

Skin Inc is a skincare brand based in Singapore, specializing in providing personalized skincare products based on scientific principles and advanced technology. The brand is renowned for creating diverse and high-quality skincare products, particularly serums and unique skincare items.

With pride in their personalized products, Skin Inc also aimed to build an optimal online shopping experience with a high degree of personalization for customers. However, the business lacked the tools to achieve this.

Each time the technical team made a few changes, the website system immediately slowed down, lagged, and sometimes even had to temporarily suspend operations, causing disruptions to customer shopping.

This issue occurred frequently, especially during major year-end shopping seasons, resulting in substantial losses for Skin Inc, amounting to thousands of dollars.

Therefore, Skin Inc needed an alternative eCommerce solution that could be easily customized to deliver the best customer experience. Skin Inc transitioned from Magento to Shopify Plus and swiftly found solutions to enhance the customer experience.

With multi-store management features, Skin Inc could create multiple versions of eCommerce websites to tailor the experience for different customer segments in various markets.

In addition, Skin Inc implemented Shopify Flow and LaunchPad solutions to automate operational and sales processes. The seamless integration capabilities of Shopify Plus enabled Skin Inc to easily integrate with third-party applications to enhance marketing campaigns and customer loyalty programs.

As a result, this renowned beauty brand was able to reduce operational time by 50% and increase conversion rates by 200%.

• Website: https://iloveskininc.us/
• Industry: Cosmetics
• Traffic: 40.8K/month
• Ranking: 177,765 (USA) & 1,088,558 (Worldwide)

Replatform from Magento to Shopify Plus today!

So, SECOMM has gathered insights from 15 representative brands that courageously stepped out of the “Magento world” to revamp their eCommerce websites with Shopify Plus. These brands prioritize customer experience and streamlined processes, inspiring others to confidently opt for platform migration.

Contact SECOMM or call directly at (+84)28 7108 9908 for advice and implementation of the eCommerce migration process from Magento to Shopify Plus today!

According to the Deloitte 2022 Retail Industry Outlook, up to 67% of businesses acknowledge that the eCommerce platform is their top investment priority due to issues they face with deploying outdated platforms.

Plus, a survey by Digital Commerce 360 revealed that about 27% of businesses are trying to switch their eCommerce platforms despite the associated costs.

Among the myriad of leading platforms today, Shopify Plus stands out as a perfect choice for businesses when deciding to re-platform. 

This article will show you 15 reasons why you should migrate to Shopify Plus. Why the platform gains the attention of business leaders and how it can be the key to your development and success in today’s eCommerce landscape.

What is Shopify Plus?

It is a premium solution of the popular eCommerce platform – Shopify. This version is specifically designed to meet the needs of large businesses with a high investment budget for eCommerce.

It offers flexibility, scalability, and integration, not only helping efficiently build and run an eCommerce website but also providing advanced tools and features to optimize the customer shopping experience.

Why Re-platforming to Shopify Plus?

Here are 15 notable advantages that the platform offers for your business growth, laying the groundwork for you to consider migrating to Shopify Plus.

Intuitive Interface

The dashboard interface is designed to be intuitive and user-friendly, catering to end-users and administrators who directly manage the Shopify store. The intuitive interface allows you to concentrate on developing business strategies and enhancing the customer experience, minimizing the learning curve on how to use the system.

Easy-to-Estimate Costs

The second reason to migrate to Shopify Plus is the transparency in estimating and managing deployment costs. Typically, when using this platform, you may consider platform fees, transaction fees, app and add-on fees.

• Platform fee: Starting at $2000/month and increasing based on revenue
• Transaction fee: 0.15% when employing third-party payment gateways, with no charge when using Shopify Payments.
• App and add-on fee: These vary depending on the number of apps and extensions you use, ranging from a few dollars to several hundred dollars per month.

The Shopify Plus pricing system is clear and understandable, helping you know all the fees you need to pay monthly. This helps financial planning, avoiding unexpected fees during the deployment process. 

Plus, if you partner with highly specialized technical development teams like SECOMM, we’ll conduct a detailed analysis and propose a phased deployment plan for the Shopify Plus eCommerce website. This approach allows you to gain clarity on how your system will be deployed at each stage, facilitating easy adjustments and flexible optimization of financial resources.

Automation    

Another advantage of Shopify Plus is the automation feature. The platform provides two exclusive tools to help you facilitate this process: Shopify Flow and LaunchPad.

• Shopify Flow:  A comprehensive automation tool that addresses various aspects of the Shopify Plus store. You can create automated rules to handle tasks such as automatic order identification and categorization, automated email sending, and automatic inventory updates.
• Shopify Launchpad: A tool for managing and coordinating significant events, from product launches to major promotional campaigns. You can automate tasks such as changing product prices, managing website content, and even opening/closing the Shopify Plus store based on preset schedules.

These automation tools help enhance efficiency and save time by streamlining various processes, allowing you to focus on strategic aspects of your operations.

Omnichannel

Shopify Plus allows you to reach a broader audience through various sales channels, spanning from offline to online, including leveraging social media for sales and implementing B2B business models.

Plus, you can integrate the Shopify POS solution into their offline stores to offer services such as BOPIS (Buy Online, Pick Up In-Store) and BORIS (Buy Online, Return In-Store). This allows customers to shop in the manner that suits them, combining both online and in-store shopping experiences.

Global Selling

In 2021, Shopify introduced a comprehensive cross-border selling solution called Shopify Markets. With Shopify Markets, you can easily customize their stores for each specific target market. This includes setting prices, languages, payment methods, and delivery options to align with the preferences of local customers.

Flexible Customization

The robust customization is another reason for businesses to switch to Shopify Plus. This platform allows you to freely customize from the frontend to the backend without being constrained by any limits. In particular, you can easily customize the backend with Shopify Functions and Function APIs. Some use cases for Shopify Functions include:

• Customizing discounts
• Customizing the shopping cart and checkout
• Customizing payment options
• Customizing order fulfillment and delivery

Extensive App Store

With the popularity of Shopify and Shopify Plus globally, it’s not surprising that Shopify owns a host of useful applications, some of which are specifically developed for businesses deploying Shopify Plus. Moreover, the ‘Plus’ provides diverse documentation and resources (Shopify Plus Certified App Program) for developers to create applications and extensions, contributing to the vast ecosystem of Shopify applications.

Rich Integration with Third Parties

Beyond integrating with solutions within Shopify, you can also integrate with third-party systems such as:

• Management software: ERP, CRM, PIM
• Social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Pinterest
• Online marketplace: Amazon, Walmart, Ebay, Etsy
• Payment systems: Apple Pay, PayPal, Google Pay

High Performance and stability

Shopify’s cloud infrastructure can cater to over 600,000 merchants and process speeds of up to 80,000 requests per second during peak periods. This system is built on a dedicated server cluster running Docker and utilizes Rails applications, alongside integrated additional features based on the AWS platform.

Therefore, Shopify Plus can provide powerful processing speed not only for the website but also during the checkout process. It can handle a massive number of visits while maintaining speed and ensuring a positive customer experience, processing over 10,000 orders per minute.

With unlimited bandwidth and flexible infrastructure, Shopify Plus can effortlessly scale to manage increased traffic during peak shopping seasons such as Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Christmas. This enables you to handle high volumes of customers during peak times without concerns about technical issues or website disruptions.

Deploy Headless Commerce

The flexible customization of Shopify Plus also extends to providing maximum support for deploying Headless Commerce. Moreover, in 2021, the platform introduced the Hydrogen solution – an outstanding tech stack that can meet the highest requirements for building a Headless Commerce system.

Deploy Composable Commerce 

As the demand for flexibility and scalability continues to rise, alongside Headless Commerce, large businesses worldwide are increasingly focusing on the Composable Commerce model. Fortunately, Shopify is keenly attuned to customer needs and has recently introduced the Commerce Components by Shopify solution in early 2023.

As of the time of writing, Shopify stands as the first SaaS platform to provide a tech stack that can address nearly all the development needs of Composable Commerce.

Quick to Go-live Process

While you may require considerable time to tailor your Shopify Plus store to your specific needs, the nature of SaaS ensures that the go-live process for Shopify Plus remains quicker compared to open-source platforms like Magento.

On average, the deployment and go-live time for the Shopify Plus platform is around 2-5 months, whereas with Magento, businesses take from 6-12 months to deploy and go live.

High Security

Shopify Plus provides a range of security measures and features to ensure that business data, customer information, and payment transactions are safeguarded to the highest extent possible. This includes:

• Compliance with 6 types of PCI standards (Payment Card Industry).
• Implementation of the highest level of data encryption.
• Provision of tools to detect potentially fraudulent transactions.
• Automated verification and adjustment of payment information to ensure actual transactions match payment profiles.
• Automatic data backups.
• Protection against Bot and DDoS attacks.

24/7 Customer Support

Similar to other eCommerce platforms, Shopify Plus provides businesses with 24/7 support through hotlines, emails, and video calls in various languages. Additionally, this platform offers instructional materials, API documentation, and the Shopify Plus Merchant Success program where businesses can access:

• Shopify Plus Academy
• Exclusive events and workshops
• Shopify Experts & Shopify Plus Partners

User-friendly ecosystem

Shopify Plus has a vast and diverse user ecosystem, including businesses, developers, and marketing experts. With numerous leading global businesses choosing Shopify Plus as a key tool to drive their growth and success, it is undoubtedly a testament to the excellence of this platform.

Renowned names such as Gymshark, Glossier, MZ Wallace, and Emma Bridgewater have leveraged the power of Shopify Plus to create customized shopping experiences, expand sales volumes, and reach a broader customer base. Their presence has added another reason encouraging you to switch to Shopify Plus.

Ready to migrate to Shopify Plus?

With flexible customization, scalability, and support from a reliable team of experts, the decision to deploy eCommerce with Shopify Plus or migrate from another platform to Shopify Plus has been right for sustained and competitive growth in the eCommerce landscape. 

Contact SECOMM or call the hotline at 028 7108 9908 for advice and support to swiftly and effectively switch to Shopify Plus.