Is there anything else I need to consider moving our root domain to a shop subdomain?

[kraftivsoftware]

We're planning to move our current store to a shop.mystore.com subdomain.

The shop will contain different products vs root domain but will still include a navigation to our shop page.

I have looked into previous discussions around this and would like to know if I have covered everything or are there things I still need to consider or work on.

Things I am planning to do:

1. Create a subdomain in our DNS provider and connect to Shopify.
2. Create two new collections - one for products on our shop subdomain, the other for our root domain products.
3. Create a new page to be the landing page for our shop and redirect the subdomain to that page.

[PaulNewton]

Hi @kraftivsoftware 👋

1. DNS propagation can take days. If the current frontend is a webapp/has-app features make sure caches will invalidate.
2. Do you mean shop.mywebsite.com or literally shop.mystore.com. Why that redundancy,  shop.mystore.com makes it seem like there should be two separate stores A) mystore.com/products and B)  shop.mystore.com/products . If the intent is to show a collection on the old domain how do you intend to do that if the online-sales channel points to a subdomain. See embeddable buy-buttons etc
3. Why  haveredirect to a subdomain  a landing page instead of just using a a direct url to that subdomains homepage. Aside from campaigns the shop should be it's own landing page not have yet another interstitial page creating a friction maze for customers unless there's a specific business constraint like regional selection.

[kraftivsoftware]

Hi @PaulNewton 

1. Got it! I will take note of this.

2. I meant shop.mywebsite.com. So we basically have two "fronts" - one is the shop.mywebsite.com where 90% of the products are shown, the other one is the mywebsite.com where 10% of the products are there - very selective.

3. Hmm, I will review this point again - I don't seem to understand it completely.