A reputed client approached Computan to update their current Shopify eCommerce store theme to Shopify OS 2.0 for increased speed, efficiency, and many other features that come along with Shopify’s new update.
No particular issue was there. It was a regular task of updating and ensuring that everything worked smoothly even after the update. The only issue in any updating task is that some things don’t work as intended after the update is done because there are so many things attached to the portal. There are third-party apps, integrations, payment gateways, and much more.
To make the task successful and use all the new exciting features of Shopify OS 2.0, we divided our project approach into three steps.
The third point is important and needs attention because even when you have a highly technically sound team to do the task, connection with third-party apps is not in their control (if they don’t contact the third party owners first.) That’s why it is crucial to check with every app to confirm that their services will be continued the same way even after the update.
Upgrading our current Theme
Choosing a new OS2.0 Theme
Our recommendation is to use the DAWN theme, a clean, free, efficient, and fast theme offered by Shopify; we can see its features on OS 2.0 link. It is fast. We used it in some stores, and its results are very good from a speed perspective. DAWN theme has the feature to load only necessary code/CSS on each template.
We should also consider importing all our custom pages built by Pagefly to OS 2.0 theme-based as those will be created efficiently and hence reduce loading of Pagefly assets/cost. We will make a list of all those pages and ETA for rebuilding them by a new theme builder.
Reaching to Apps Support Guys for OS 2.0 confirmation
We reached out to Yotpo, Recharge, and other app support teams for confirmation there will be no issue after our above upgrade.
We can divide our cost of upgrading into two categories, i.e., 1) Computan and 2) Third-party theme purchase/upgradation service. While if we go with the DAWN theme, then only the development charges are there.
Computan team successfully upgraded the existing Shopify website with a new theme and OS 2.0 making the Shopify store more speedy, feature-rich, and efficient.
Habib and Nadeem worked on the project and helped prepared this blog as well.
You can read our detailed blog on Shopify OS 2.0 Features. Click on the image below.