A successful catalog migration is built in three phases: audit the existing data, transform it, and validate post-migration. Skip one phase and you guarantee weeks of corrections after the new CMS goes live.
Supported migrations
The 3 phases of a catalog migration
Phase 1 — Audit and extraction
Full export of the source catalog (CSV or API), quality audit (duplicates, empty fields, broken images), mapping source categories to the target taxonomy. Duration: 2 to 5 days depending on volume.
Phase 2 — Transform and enrich
Column mapping, data cleaning (encoding, prices, references), enriching missing descriptions and images. This is the longest phase — Seegea reduces it by 60%.
Phase 3 — Import and validate
Import to staging first, manual validation of 5% of products, fix anomalies, import to production with 301 redirects active. Duration: 1 to 3 days.
| Migration tool | What it does well | What it does not do |
|---|---|---|
| Cart2Cart / LitExtension | Fast technical transfer (DB to API) | No enrichment or quality cleaning |
| Matrixify | Advanced Shopify CSV import | No transformation or AI |
| Native CSV | Full data control | No automatic mapping or rollback |
| Seegea | Post-migration enrichment (descriptions, images, SEO) | No DB-to-DB technical transfer |
The winning combination for a PrestaShop → Shopify migration: LitExtension for the technical raw data transfer + Seegea for enrichment and standardization of the migrated catalog (descriptions, WebP images, SEO meta).
What Seegea brings to your migration
After a technical migration, the catalog is often there but not polished: short descriptions inherited from the old CMS, unoptimized images, missing SEO meta. Seegea lets you fix this at scale:
- AI descriptions in 1 click — for the 40% of products that arrive with fewer than 100 words of description
- Automatic image optimization — WebP compression, 1000×1000 for Google Shopping, AI alt text
- Per-product rollback — if a bulk correction goes the wrong way, Ctrl+Z restores the previous state and re-pushes
Built in France between Annecy and Chantilly, Seegea supports catalog migrations with a dedicated Google Meet session and reactive email support.
Plan your catalog migration with us
30-min Google Meet · free audit of your source catalog
Created in France (Annecy – Chantilly) · Email & Google Meet support
FAQ
For a 2,000-product catalog with variants and images: 2 to 4 weeks including the validation phase. 80% of the time goes to data cleaning and enrichment, not the technical import itself. Seegea reduces this enrichment phase by 60 to 70%.