After the Shopify import

When the import finishes, you see how many books, formats, readers, orders, discount codes and old links came over.

Before you switch

Under Before you switch, the report lists what still needs you. Work through it:

1. Upload your files. Ebooks and audiobooks can’t be sold until they have files. See upload your book files.
2. Replace covers we couldn’t copy. The report names each one.
3. Set up your bundles again. See bundles and box sets.
4. Check each book, then publish it. Imported books are drafts. See publish, archive or delete.

Old links

Choose Check old links, or open See your old links from Move from Shopify. Each row shows an old address, like /products/my-book, and the page it now opens, like /books/my-book.

The importer adds one for every book. If an old Shopify link pointed to a page that doesn’t exist in Lanternbee, the report says so. Add your own:

1. Type the Old address, starting with /.
2. Type where it Now goes to.
3. Choose Add old link.

Choose Remove to delete one.

Switch your address

When your books are ready, point your shop address at Lanternbee. See connect your own domain. Shopify keeps selling until the moment you switch.

Your old links keep working on the address your Lanternbee store opens at. If your Shopify links start with www.yourname.com, use www.yourname.com for Lanternbee and they work as they are.

If your old links start with yourname.com without www, like the ones in your back matter often do, there is one more step. At the company you bought your domain from, turn on forwarding for yourname.com, send it to your Lanternbee address, and pick the option that keeps the rest of the link (it is often called path forwarding). Without that option, every old link opens your store’s home page instead of the book.

Then test it: open an old link to one of your books, starting with https://yourname.com, and check that it lands on that book. Not every provider can forward the rest of the link, or forward an address that starts with https. If yours can’t, write to us and we’ll help you find a way.

Import again

Earlier imports on the Move from Shopify page lists each import with its date and status. Open one to see its report again.