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WineDirect Data Migration Guide (Australia & New Zealand only)

Understanding Migration Timing, Editable Data, and Ensuring the Accuracy of Your Imported Information

We will be conducting two data imports and greatly appreciate your help in ensuring the accuracy of your data.

To better understand what you can edit during each stage of the transition, please follow the steps outlined below.


In this Article

First Data Migration Components

Live Data That Will Be Migrated

Non-live Data That Will Be Migrated

Final Data Migration

Best Practices for Reviewing Migrated Data

Back up Your Data for Your Own Record Keeping


1. First Data Migration Components

During your kick-off call with your Onboarding Specialist, we will begin the process of migrating the following data types.

  • Please take the time to read and familiarize yourself with the edits that can be made and where they can be made.
  • Data, such as orders, customers, club memberships, and credit cards in WineDirect will be reimported during the final data migration.
  • We will notify you once your first and final migrations have been fully completed. If any data errors have occurred we will provide you with an email containing instructions on how to correct them. You will have until the final data migration date to make any necessary corrections. 
Important: If you notice discrepancies in any data please let your Onboarding Specialist know. 

Live Data that will be migrated:

Do not make edits to these live data components in the Commerce7 platform. You can make these edits in WineDirect up until the date of your final data migration.

  • Customers: Feel free to make edits within WineDirect. You can make these edits in WineDirect up until the date of your final data migration.
    • Contact Information
    • Shipping addresses
    • Credit Card
    • Notes
  • Club Memberships: Feel free to make edits within WineDirect. You can make these edits in WineDirect up until the date of your final data migration.  
    • Club membership types
    • Hold dates
    • Cancellation dates
    • Addresses (Billing/Shipping)
    • Credit Card 
    • Notes 
  • Credit cards: Cards in the first import will be for review purposes only. You will not be able to charge customers until the final migration is completed.
  • Orders: Feel free to make edits within WineDirect. You can make these edits in WineDirect up until the date of your final data migration. 

IMPORTANT - When it comes to LIVE DATA

Do not make any edits in the Commerce7 platform.  Instead, make all necessary edits in the WineDirect platform.

This data will be re-imported during the final data migration. If you make any edits in Commerce7, they will be overridden with WineDirect data.


Other Data (non Live Data) That Will Be Migrated

This data will not be re-imported during the final migration. This means the names of each data type (for instance, your Club names) must remain unchanged until the completion of your final import.

  • Club settings 
    • Feel free to edit existing clubs in Commerce7 (add content, photo, etc). But DO NOT change Club Titles in either WineDirect or Commerce7.
    • Can you create a new Club in Commerce7? 

      Yes. However, please be aware that if you choose to create a new club, you will need to manually transfer all memberships from your existing club to the new one after the final migration is complete.

  • Products 
    • Do not edit the SKU for products. However, feel free to edit existing Products in Commerce7 (add content and more). 
    • Bundles are not being migrated over as they are configured differently between the two systems. Please view the documentation here on how to set these up within Commerce7. 

2. Final Data Migration Components

We will migrate your live data from WineDirect to Commerce7 on your launch date (or as close as possible to that date) to ensure that you have the most up-to-date information for your launch.

If we have informed you of any data errors and you have taken the necessary steps to correct them in WineDirect, those updates will be reflected in the final data migration. After the final data migration is complete, you will have the ability to edit all of your data within the Commerce7 platform.

Here's what will be imported in the final migration:

  • Customers 
  • Club Memberships
  • Credit cards
  • Orders

3. Best Practices for Reviewing Migrated Data

Below are the items that you will need to review. If anything is missing or not matching, please let your Onboarding Specialist know right away.

Products

Your Products will be imported only one time. Please make necessary edits in Commerce7 but do not change SKUs. 

Check the following:

  • Pricing: Confirm that it matches what is in WineDirect.
  • Photos: Check to make sure your product photos were imported correctly. We import only the main product image (the Photo under General Information in WineDirect). If it's not in Commerce7, ensure the WineDirect image URL is valid and publicly accessible (no authentication). We support only one image domain, chosen based on a random product image URL - multiple image domains are not supported.
  • Teasers/Descriptions: HTML code is striped out of the data brought over, so please review these to ensure they are still accurate.
  • Weight for each Product: If your shipping rates were not weight-based in WineDirect, you will need to enter them. If you do not, then shipping rates will not be calculated.
  • Product Type: Confirm that they match what is in WineDirect.
  • Web/Admin/POS/Club Status: Define where the Product should be available for purchase.
    • Web > Available, Not Available or Retired
    • Admin/POS/Club > Available or Not Available
  • Product Attributes: Title, SKU, UPC Code, Department, Tax Type, Alcohol Percentage, Volume (in milliliters).

Customers

Do not edit records in Commerce7 before your final data migration. Make edits in WineDirect only.

Check the following:

  • Number of Customers: Check the overall number of Customers to confirm that they all made it over.
    • To check this, go to the CRM tab and use the More Filters dropdown.
  • Spot-check: Choose a few Customers that you know well and go have a look at their Customer Profiles. Look at Name, Address, Phone Number, Orders, Club Membership (if applicable) and any Customer Notes. Does everything look correct?

Orders

Do not edit Orders records in Commerce7 before your final data migration. Make edits in WineDirect only.

Check the following:

  • Compare the number of Orders: Compare the number of Orders in WineDirect to the number of Orders in Commerce7. Make sure the order totals for a given month (for instance, run a report for 2/1/2025-2/28/2025) matches what is in your WineDirect platform.
  • Spot-check: Choose a few Customers that you know well and go have a look at their Orders. Does everything look correct? Check Items, Amounts, Payments, Order Notes.

Clubs and Memberships

Do not edit Club Memberships or change the Club Level title in Commerce7 before your final data migration. Please do not change the Club name in WineDirect until the final import is completed. Make edits in WineDirect only.

Check the following:

  • Review Club Levels: Check the Clubs in both WineDirect and Commerce7 and confirm that all Club levels in WineDirect exist in Commerce7. 
  • Review Memberships: Confirm that the count of Memberships in WineDirect matches what you see in Commerce7. Make sure to use the Club Memberships report in WineDirect.
  • Spot-check: Choose a few Club Members that you know well and go have a look at their Club Profiles. Does everything look correct? Check Shipping/Pickup preference, Club Notes, Address information and dates.

4. Backup Your Data for Your Own Record Keeping

We recommend that you export as much data as you can from WineDirect for your own records.

You'll have access to your WineDirect site for 90 days following the completion of your project, allowing you ample time to gather the necessary information. 

  • Customer data: Go into the Admin Panel and click Reports > Contacts > Contact List > You will then need to change the date range to 01/01/1900 – today’s date, this will ensure you capture all customers in the site. Then click Export.
  • Product data: Go into the Admin Panel and click Settings > below click on Import/Export > Product Exporter > Change the format to “Advanced” and then click export. Once it is complete you will need to click on the letters Download Finished to download the document.
  • Order History data: Go into the Admin Panel and click Reports > Sales > Order Detail > You will then need to change the date range to 01/01/1900 – today’s date this will ensure you capture all orders in the site. Sometimes it does time out and you will need to break the date range up into chunks. > You will also need to click on Manage Filters and Select All Order Statuses and change Bundles to Show Individual SKU > Then click export.
  • Customer Notes: Go into the Admin Panel and click Dashboard > Notes > Then on the right-hand side you will see the option to export notes, once you click it the export will start.
  • Contact types: Go into the Admin Panel and click Contacts > List Builders > then click into whichever contact types/lists you would like to export > Click Generate List > and then on the right-hand side click download CSV. You will need to do this for each contact type one by one/
  • Club members: Go into the Admin Panel and go to Settings> Import/Export >Club Member Exporter>then Export and download file.