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Work we have done, and what it changed.

From chaos comes order. Every DBOS product started as one business's real problem, and the first one started with five thousand photographs nobody could name.

We have migrated businesses off Shopify, WooCommerce, WordPress and Wix with their search presence intact, and we have built from scratch.

Which businesses have we built for?

Seven, named with their permission, ordered by what the work was rather than by which country it happened in. Each one is written the same way: the situation, what was actually needed, what was built, and what changed.

Where a product came from

Essaness Music, Kilkenny

Five thousand photographs with no names

The situation
A music shop with forty years of stock had thousands of product photographs and no way to find any of them. No names, no labels, no order.
What was needed
Not a better folder structure. Somebody had to look at every picture and say what it was.
What we built
An ingestion layer that reads the file, describes what is in it, and files it against the product it belongs to. It reads over 200 file formats and produces five sized versions of every image automatically.
What changed
The chaos became a catalogue. That engine is now SmartData, and every DBOS client gets it on their first day.
  • 5,000 unlabelled product photographs
  • 200+ file formats read natively
  • 5 rendition sizes produced per image

Full commerce

Essaness Music, Kilkenny

essanessmusic.ie

Forty years of search history, carried across intact

The situation
An established shop on WooCommerce, with four decades of accumulated search presence that no replacement was allowed to break.
What was needed
Move the whole business onto something faster without losing a single position that had taken forty years to earn.
What we built
A full migration, ten languages, an advisor on the homepage that knows the entire catalogue including products uploaded this morning, and every old address mapped to its new one.
What changed
The shop is faster, reaches further, and answers questions at two in the morning. Nothing that was findable before became unfindable.
  • 241 redirects preserving 40 years of search presence
  • 10 languages
  • Migrated from WooCommerce

Full commerce

Red Robin Boutique, Philomena

redrobinboutique.com

Two hundred and fifty nine products, off Shopify

The situation
A boutique paying monthly for a platform that owned her catalogue, her customers and her terms.
What was needed
Her shop, her data, her gateway, without a week of downtime or a lost product.
What we built
A full catalogue migration with sizes and colours as real purchasable variants, images recovered from the old platform's network, and her own payment account rather than ours.
What changed
She owns the shop now. Sizes work the way a boutique actually sells, and the right photograph appears the moment a colour is chosen.
  • 259 products migrated, 256 live
  • 657 of 682 images recovered
  • Migrated from Shopify

Presence and reach

Sushi Mania Kitchen, Jolita

sushimania.ie

A kitchen that needed to be found, not to sell online

The situation
A WordPress site that was slow, hard to change, and not bringing anybody through the door.
What was needed
Presence and reach. No basket, no checkout. People order by picking up the phone and walking in.
What we built
A migration off WordPress onto something fast, built around being found locally rather than around a transaction.
What changed
The kitchen is findable. Not every business needs a shop, and we said so.
  • Migrated from WordPress
  • No payment gateway, by design

Built from nothing

The Flower Basket

theflowerbasket.florist

Built new, including the part that pays for itself

The situation
No site to migrate. A florist starting from nothing online.
What was needed
A presence, and a separate front door for weddings, which is where the margin is.
What we built
A site from scratch, with a dedicated wedding section rather than a buried page.
What changed
The work that earns most now has somewhere of its own to be found.
  • Built from scratch
  • Dedicated wedding section

Built from nothing

Flowers of Paradise

flowersofparadise.shop

Open for business on the day the doors opened

The situation
A new shop opening in October 2025 with nothing online.
What was needed
To exist on the internet before the first customer walked in, not months afterwards.
What we built
The site, built to the opening date.
What changed
The shop opened with an address people could find.
  • Built for the October 2025 opening

In migration now

This Is Blob, Alisha, United Kingdom

thisisblob.co.uk

One person, running workshops, stuck on Wix

The situation
A drama practitioner running creative workshops for teenage girls, on a platform she could not shape to what she actually does.
What was needed
A site that sounds like her rather than like a template, and room to sell seats and merchandise without a second system.
What we built
A migration off Wix, in progress now.
What changed
In flight. We are publishing it while it is unfinished because that is the honest state of it.
  • Migrating from Wix
  • A one-person business, not a company

What do clients say about it?

I didn't expect that, and I didn't know I needed it. But now I see it, I say: this is absolutely what I want. And I am so happy to know you.
Alisha, This Is Blob, United Kingdom

Questions about migrations

Which platforms have you migrated businesses off?

Shopify, WooCommerce, WordPress and Wix, with search presence preserved. We have also built from scratch where there was nothing to migrate.

Will we lose our search positions in a migration?

Not if the old addresses are mapped to the new ones before launch. On one migration that meant 241 redirects carrying forty years of accumulated presence across intact.

How long does a migration take?

It depends on the catalogue. A shop of around 260 products with images recovered from the old platform is a matter of weeks, not months, because the structure lands first and the pictures fill in behind it.

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