Moving from Commerce Vision to Shopify Plus requires planning across the storefront, ERP integration, business data and customer purchasing workflows.

For established retailers and B2B wholesalers, the priority is to improve the customer experience while maintaining the pricing, inventory, accounts and ordering processes the business depends on.

We help enterprise B2B merchants move to Shopify Plus while keeping the operational systems their business depends on connected. With Pocketknife linking ERP data and supporting complex purchasing workflows, we build a commerce foundation that improves the buying experience and gives merchants room to grow.

When should a business consider moving from Commerce Vision?

A business should consider migration when its commerce platform makes it increasingly difficult to serve customers, support operations or introduce the capabilities needed for growth.

For merchants outgrowing Commerce Vision, the frustration often starts with everyday improvements becoming complex development projects. Updating the storefront, introducing purchasing workflows or giving customers access to account information takes more time and effort than it should.

Sales and service teams fill the gaps by checking pricing, handling orders and sending information customers could access themselves. Over time, these workarounds consume team capacity, add friction to purchasing and slow the business down.

Migration requires investment and careful planning. The decision should also account for the ongoing cost of maintaining customisations, repeating administration and postponing improvements.

Shopify’s article on why a successful B2B migration requires more than just a new platform highlights something we see across enterprise commerce projects: changing platforms creates an opportunity to improve the processes around them.

For merchants moving from Commerce Vision to Shopify Plus, that starts with understanding what customers need to keep doing, where manual work can be reduced and how the ERP will support the new buying experience. Those decisions shape a migration that addresses today’s frustrations and supports the next stage of growth.

Can you move to Shopify Plus and keep your existing ERP?

Yes. A Commerce Vision to Shopify Plus migration can retain the existing ERP where it continues to meet the business’s operational requirements. The integration approach depends on the ERP, available interfaces, data ownership and workflows that need to be supported.

Each system needs a clear role:

• Shopify Plus provides the storefront and commerce foundation.

• The ERP remains responsible for agreed operational information, such as pricing, inventory, accounts and financial data.

• Pocketknife connects the systems and extends Shopify with additional complex B2B purchasing and account workflows.

• Pipelabs plans, implements, tests and supports the complete solution.

For a wholesaler, this could mean bringing contract pricing, quotes, approvals and invoice access into the customer experience. For a retailer, it could mean connecting inventory and purchasing requirements across multiple brands and channels.

The architecture is shaped around the merchant’s business, with clear responsibilities for data and synchronisation.