EIGHT MILLION ITEMS, MIGRATED TO SHOPIFY PLUS, WITHOUT LOSING A SINGLE DROP. EIGHT MILLION ITEMS, MIGRATED TO SHOPIFY PLUS, WITHOUT LOSING A SINGLE DROP.
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EIGHT MILLION ITEMS, MIGRATED TO SHOPIFY PLUS, WITHOUT LOSING A SINGLE DROP.

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  • CLIENT

    DEKBED-DISCOUNTER.NL

  • legacy platform

    Lightspeed + Headless

  • NEW PLATFORM

    Shopify Plus

  • SERVICES

    FULL MIGRATION + THEME FRAMEWORK

  • sector

    Retail / Textile

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  • THE BRIEF

THE CASE OF DEKBED-DISCOUNTER.NL

Dekbed-Discounter.nl is one of the largest players in the Dutch sleep and home category. A Twinkle Top 50 retailer running a complex, headless Lightspeed setup built up over years of growth. They came to us with one of the harder migration profiles we see: a headless source platform, eight million items across categories, and a brand that couldn't afford a single hour of downtime during the cutover.

The brief had three immovable constraints. Preserve every product, customer record, order, and discount code, one-to-one. Land every SEO position built up over years on Shopify Plus unchanged. And run the cutover during a live trading window, with order flow continuing the entire time. Most studios told them to plan for downtime. We told them they wouldn't need it.
  • Step 1 icon
    MIGRATION

    Full migration from Lightspeed to Shopify Plus using our patented Syncer® Technology.

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    STOREBUILD

    Built on SYK's framework, the same foundation that powers our fifteen themes in the Shopify Theme Store with over 10.000 users worldwide means we know Shopify better than anybody. With 600+ Reviews we score a 99% Satisfaction by our Theme users.

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    INTEGRATIONS

    Flatline Agency did the full Klaviyo integration for Dekbed-discounter.nl. Check the casestudy on their website.

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  • WHAT WE DID
A CUSTOM SHOPIFY PLUS STOREFRONT.
On top of the migration, we designed and built a custom Shopify Plus storefront on the SYK storebuild framework. A faster, more flexible front end than the headless setup it replaced, with the editorial range Dekbed-Discounter needed for category campaigns and seasonal storytelling. Built on the same foundation that powers our themes in the Shopify Theme Store, just deeper for their brand.
EIGHT MILLION ITEMS, MOVED ON LIVE SYNC.
Eight million items moved from Lightspeed headless to Shopify Plus: products, variants, customers, orders, discount codes. Syncer ran the migration in live-sync mode, which means the source database and the new Plus environment stayed synchronised the entire time leading up to cutover. New orders, new customers, and product updates that hit Lightspeed during the migration window appeared on Plus within seconds. The team kept trading. We kept syncing.
A TWINKLE TOP 50 SEO FOOTPRINT, PRESERVED.
A Twinkle Top 50 retailer has serious organic rankings, accumulated over years. Category pages, product titles, metadata, canonical structure, internal linking. We ran the SEO migration through SEO Guard, our own SEO continuity layer. Every URL mapped one-to-one. Every meta-tag preserved. Every canonical relationship intact. Every redirect tested before cutover. Indexed rankings the morning after launch matched indexed rankings the day before.
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BUILT ON OUR PREMIER FRAMEWORK

Custom storebuilds at SYK don't start from zero. For DEKBED-DISCOUNTER.NL we started on our own framework, built on top of the fifteen themes we ship in the Shopify Theme Store. Same performance floor, same accessibility, much deeper for client-specific design and logic. Custom work, shipped at theme-build speed.

NUMBERS THAT MATTER WHEN YOU REPLATFORM

Migrating to Shopify is a once-in-a-decade move. Here is what we deliver, every time.
  • 200+

    Successful migrations to Shopify (Plus)

  • 98%

    SEO ranking retention on average

  • 6+

    Platforms we migrate from

  • 0.0

    Downtime while launching your new store

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    SERVICES:
    FULL MIGRATION + THEME FRAMEWORK

    SECTOR:
    Retail / Textile

  • <div class="metafield-rich_text_field"><p><strong>Niels Verweij </strong>- Founder</p></div>
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    Niels Verweij - Founder

    "Bizarre experience, honestly. We were really sceptical it would work. But there we are: it worked."

HOW WE RUN MIGRATIONS
WITH SYNCER®

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We work in two layers. The data layer runs through Syncer, our sister company's purpose-built migration tooling. It streams products, customers, orders, and content from your old platform into Shopify in real time, with zero downtime. The old store keeps running while the new one is being built.

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