What if the import goes wrong?

It tells you first. Your file is read in your own browser and checked before a single byte is uploaded, and then a practice run resolves every row against your real data and reports what would happen without saving anything. You only press the real button once you have seen the numbers.

Can I bring it in twice?

Yes. Records are matched on their natural key (SKU for products, email for customers, order number for orders) so running the same file again updates rather than duplicates. Fix something in the spreadsheet and re-drop it.

For most businesses there is nothing to do. It is a file and a button. If your data is genuinely awkward, email migrate@sparx.works and we will do the move with you.

← Every platform we move you from

You have outgrown a five-product shop

Your products with their options, and your order history: from the exports in your Big Cartel admin.

Start moving →What it costs

Two files, half an hour.

products.csv

read locally

This is a Big Cartel products export

We can tell from the columns and the file name.

Products

128 of 129 ready

128 products ready: 1 row will be skipped.

Must fix

Row 84: this record has no name.

Nothing has been saved yet.

It was perfect at twelve products. You have ninety.

1

There is no reporting worth the name

What sold, roughly. Not what makes money, not what is about to run out, not who buys twice.

2

Stock is a number, not a system

One count, one place, no history of how it got there and no way to tell it apart from what is at the studio versus what is at the merch table.

3

Your buyers are a list of order emails

The person who has bought six times looks exactly like the person who bought once, because nothing is keeping score.

What comes across

Everything in this list is something an importer we maintain actually reads out of your Big Cartel export. It is generated from that importer, so it cannot promise you something we do not do.

ProductsOrders

The files you need from Big Cartel

Products

Admin → Products → Export products

products.csv

Orders

Admin → Orders → Export orders

orders.csv

The same simplicity, with room above it.

sparx starts as simple as you need. Switch on commerce and nothing else, and it is a shop. The difference is what happens when you need the next thing: stock across two places, a mailing list, wholesale pricing for the shop that wants to stock you. It is a switch rather than a move.

What that changes

Options become real product options with their own stock and prices.
Repeat buyers are visible as repeat buyers.
Wholesale is a module away when the first shop asks for a trade price.

What does not come across

Every migration leaves something behind. Here is ours, so it is not a surprise halfway through.

Your theme is rebuilt: Big Cartel themes are theirs.
Discount codes are re-created; the export does not include them.

Before you start

Still curious? Read the platform docs, browse the API spec, or book a 20-min architecture call. We don't do high-pressure demos.

No. Everything happens on a copy. You export a file, and your Big Cartel account carries on exactly as it is. Plenty of people run both for a few weeks before switching their domain over.

Bring it over

Export the file Big Cartel already makes for you, drop it in, and look at what would happen before anything is saved. Two files, half an hour.

Get started →Ask us to do it