Books and editions
“The Weeknight Kitchen (Ebook)” and “The Weeknight Kitchen (Paperback)” stop being two products and become one book with two editions.
Moving from Shopify
Move off Shopify without losing a link
The importer reads your Shopify store and rebuilds it around your books. Check the preview, point your address at Lanternbee, and old product links still land on the right pages.
How the move works
Five steps. Shopify keeps selling until the last one.
Connect your Shopify store
Sign in to Shopify from Lanternbee. We only ask to read your store. Nothing in Shopify changes.
Check the preview
See your products grouped into books and editions, and into series if you write them. Fix anything we guessed wrong.
Import
Books, readers and their purchases, orders and discount codes come across together.
Look around your new store
Take as long as you like. Shopify keeps taking orders while you check.
Switch your address
Point your shop address at Lanternbee. Old product links land on the right book pages. Then cancel the apps you no longer need.
What comes with you
Series
Shopify collections become series. You check the reading order before anything goes live.
Readers and their books
Customers become your reader list. Everything they bought is waiting in their library.
Order history
Past orders move with you, so your sales records stay in one place.
Discount codes
Active codes carry over. The code in last month’s newsletter still works.
Old links
Old product addresses send readers to the new book pages. The links in your back matter keep working.
What readers notice
Very little. They sign in with the email they always used and find the books they bought from you.
What you stop paying for
The Shopify plan, plus the apps for ebook delivery, bundles and reviews. Until sending print orders to the printer is live, you place those with BookVault or Lulu yourself. Compare the cost, or read Shopify and Lanternbee side by side.
Questions about moving
Will my store go down while I move?
No. Your Shopify store keeps selling the whole time. Readers only start buying from Lanternbee once you point your shop address at it.
Do my readers have to do anything?
No. Their books and links keep working. Readers who bought from you on Shopify find those books in their Lanternbee library by signing in with the same email address.
What happens to the links in my back matter and newsletters?
They keep working. Old Shopify product addresses send readers to the matching book pages on your new store.
What if the importer gets something wrong?
You see everything in a preview before it is imported: how products were grouped into books, series and editions, and what each one costs. Fix it there, or fix it afterwards in your store. Nothing goes live until you switch your address.
Which Shopify apps can I cancel?
The ones Lanternbee replaces: ebook and audiobook delivery for sales, bundles and reviews. Sending print orders to BookVault or Lulu is still being built, so until then you place those orders with the printer yourself. Keep BookFunnel if you use it for reader magnets or advance review copies, and keep your email tool if you like it.
Do I need to cancel Shopify straight away?
No. Cancel it when you are happy with your new store. You can keep it for a few weeks while the first orders come through.
Not open yet
Bring your store across
We’re opening a few stores at a time. Join the waitlist and we’ll help you move when your turn comes.
Free to join. No card.