Migrate from DM2Buy without losing a day of orders.

What carries over, and what does not

The realistic picture, so nothing surprises you halfway through a Saturday.

Before you touch anything, take these five things

Do this while your old tool still works. Every one of these gets harder to retrieve after you stop paying for it, and some of it you will not be able to get back at all.

• Your customer list

  Names, phone numbers and delivery addresses of everyone who has ordered from you. This is the single most valuable asset in your store and the one most likely to be locked behind a plan you are about to cancel. Export it now, even if you never import it anywhere.

• Your product photos at full size

  Pull the originals, not the versions the storefront serves. Compressed thumbnails look fine on the old site and poor on a new one, and reshooting a catalogue is the most expensive part of any migration.

• Your order history

  At minimum, the last few months. You need it to answer a returns question, to file your accounts, and to know what actually sells before you decide which products go up first on the new store.

• Whatever is still owed to you

  Check for money collected on your behalf that has not settled yet. Closing an account with an unsettled balance turns a simple move into a recovery exercise. Let it clear first.

• A list of where your old link is published

  Instagram bio, WhatsApp about, a highlight cover, past posts, printed packaging inserts, any paid ad still running. Migrations leak orders through links nobody remembered were live.

The migration, step by step

1. 1

   Create your store with your phone number

   Phone plus an OTP, then your store name and details. No password, no credit card, no waiting on approval. The storefront exists from this point on, on its own link, and nobody sees it until you share it.

2. 2

   Add your UPI ID

   Paste the UPI ID you already receive payments on. Checkout generates the payment QR from it, so money arrives exactly where it always has. If you would rather orders confirm themselves, you can connect your own Razorpay keys instead, and switch between the two later.

3. 3

   Put up your top twenty products first

   Not the whole catalogue on day one. Start with what actually sells, with real photos, prices, variants and stock counts, and let AI draft the descriptions. The long tail can go up over the following week without holding up the move.

4. 4

   Pick a theme and check it on a phone

   Three storefront themes are available. Choose one and open your store on your own phone, because that is the device nearly every buyer will use. Fix anything that reads badly there before anyone else sees it.

5. 5

   Place one real test order

   Order something small from your own store, pay the QR, upload the screenshot, then verify the payment and mark it packed. This walks the entire flow end to end and catches a wrong UPI ID or a missing stock count while it costs you nothing.

6. 6

   Swap the link in your Instagram bio

   This is the moment of the migration. Change the bio link, post a story so regulars know, and update the other places from your list: WhatsApp about, highlight covers, any live ad.

7. 7

   Run both until the old orders clear

   Do not close the old account the same day. Keep it open until every order placed on it has been delivered and any pending settlement has landed. Only then cancel.