How To Nail Your eCommerce Replatform
Lean on a decade of experience and learn how to select vendors, anticipate costs, prioritize work, and launch your replatform successfully!
An eCommerce replatform is equal parts exciting and terrifying: a thousand opportunities for growth, and ten thousand ways for things to go wrong.
At Nebulab, we’ve done our fair share of replatforms over the years, from legacy J2EE behemoths that wanted a more modern solution to small Shopify+Liquid stores experiencing hypergrowth and needing more flexibility to innovate.
During this time, we have collected our fair share of horror stories:
The headless replatform where the CTO insisted on implementing the backend in complete isolation from the frontend, only to find out that half the endpoints were unusable.
The CPG replatform where the CEO insisted on making the newsletter modal pixel-perfect, but didn’t realize their subscription engine would just not work with their business model.
The political replatform where a brand was forced to switch to a horrible, unusable piece of software because one of their advisors was also advising for the other company.
We could go on and on, but the bottom line is that, while replatforms are always going to be a little messy and scary, they should not turn into a nightmare.
Our very own Stefano Sarioli just published an article about how to approach your replatform to maximize the upside and minimize the risks. Among other things, you'll learn practical tips such as:
How to create internal alignment around your replatform with an RFC.
How to account for all costs you'll incur during and after the replatform.
How to prioritize the work with the Big Rocks, Pebbles, Sand model.
How to use checklists to minimize the stress of Launch Day.
If you are thinking about switching eCommerce providers, this is a must-read. And if you’re not, it might still come in handy at some point down the line!