Whilst historically it might have taken a significant amount of time to prepare a local version of a website from a technical perspective, most platforms have now created this functionality and moved it to configuration. The primary route would have been to manually translate an entire site but there are now various options around full or partially automated translations.

Whether or not retrospective order data should be migrated when replatforming is a debate that seems to come up a lot for us with projects, with agencies or clients often having a reason not to migrate the data and instead start fresh or just migrate recent orders. This is a question that will generally come up when discussing data migration during the discovery phase of a project and it’s an important thing to get right at this stage.