Why Shopify Plus?
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Modern Customer Experience
Shopify Plus gives you a highly customisable, super-fast, mobile-optimised front end out of the box. A big win for improving conversion rates.
Customisable and easy to manage
You can heavily customise the user interface and experience of your storefront using Shopify's Hydrogen (for headless) or Liquid (for traditional themes). Adding apps, running A/B tests, and tweaking designs is all possible without heavy dev work.
Global Readiness
Shopify Plus handles multi-currency, multi-language, and international storefronts as a standard part of the approach.
Scalability
Traffic spikes, flash sales, large catalog expansions — Shopify Plus is a truly scalable SaaS platform for eCommerce..
Integration and Automation
Shopify Plus is truly open, allowing integrations and automations such as those used in Pocketknife to be seamless components of the eCommerce platform's management and user experience.
What a Typical Migration Looks Like
1
Discovery & Strategy
Audit current CV setup, understand custom pricing, customer groups, ERP integrations
Key Considerations
Critical: Understand what CV does today that Shopify Plus needs to replicate or improve
2
Data Migration
Move products, customers, orders, content
Key Considerations
Products with multiple price tiers (B2B) will need careful mapping
3
ERP/Backend Integration
Integrate Shopify Plus with Pronto
Key Considerations
Pocketknife is specifically built to seamlessly integrate Shopify Plus with Pronto, talk to us about integration with other ERP’s
4
Storefront Build
Build and customise Shopify Plus storefront(s)
Key Considerations
Decide: traditional theme vs headless Hydrogen setup
5
B2B Features
Set up Shopify B2B (volume pricing, purchase orders, customer groups)
Key Considerations
The Pocketknife B2B Portal provides true integration with Pronto along with a long list of B2B features and modules that add value to Shopify Plus B2B features.
6
Testing & Training
Full UAT testing, staff training
Key Considerations
Test customer journeys (especially for B2B)
7
Launch
Cutover plan, DNS changes, go live
Key Considerations
Important: SEO redirects and URL structure mapping
Challenges to be Aware of
Challenges to be Aware of
Complex Pricing Rules
Shopify Plus has B2B features, but if you have extremely complex "price lists per customer contract" like in CV, you’ll need a fully featured B2B middleware integration such as that found in PocketKnife.
ERP Integration
Shopify is less "ERP-native" than CV. A middleware solution such as that found in Pocketknife assists with this.
B2B Portal Feel
CV natively gives you a "logged-in customer portal" feel. Shopify Plus provides a strong set of B2B tools natively alongside an easy to use and manage administration interface - Pocketknife adds many additional components and tools to this feature-set.
Migration Tips
Start with must-have features, not nice-to-haves.
Use Shopify Plus Partners that have B2B experience - Pocketknife is built for complex B2B use-cases and CV extensions can be handed as part of the project.
Don’t overcomplicate — lean into Shopify's best practices where you can.
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