Commerce & Retail
Access Migration for Commerce & Retail
That Access database from 2009 still runs the shop. We move it to the cloud with your business processes intact, and you review and approve the work at each checkpoint along the way. The counter and the website each show a different stock count for the same product.
Does Imagi-Tech do Access Migration for shops and retailers?
Yes. Imagi-Tech provides Microsoft Access migration to shops and retailers across ten Ohio markets, from our office in Marietta, Ohio. We scope and quote each project after a free audit. The problem it addresses: the counter and the website each show a different stock count for the same product.
Sound familiar?
Where shops and retailers usually get stuck
- One Access file on one shared drive runs a department
- It only works on one machine, and that machine is old
- The person who built it retired, and the forms are held together with hope
- Nobody will touch it because nobody knows what breaks
What's included
What you get
- Full audit of tables, queries, and reports
- Data cleaning and migration with zero loss
- Modern cloud front end your team can use anywhere
- Parallel-run period so nothing breaks
- Documentation and training
Your business logic moved to the cloud with every record intact.
Commerce & Retail
The systems we end up in
Most shops and retailers run some version of these four. Our Access Migration work usually starts with getting them to share data.
Point of sale and card processing
Inventory and purchase orders
Online storefront and marketplace listings
Loyalty, gift cards, and promotions
What changes
- One stock number the counter and the website both trust
- Reorder points that fire before the shelf is empty
- A daily close that takes a few minutes
How we work
Access Migration, cut into four pieces
Audit the database
We document every table, query, form, report, and macro, including a few nobody knew were still running.
Blueprint the rebuild
We map the old structure to the new one and flag any data that needs cleaning. Scope gets agreed before we touch anything.
Migrate and prototype
Data gets checked as it leaves the old system and again when it lands. Before cutover you test a working front end against real records.
Parallel run and hand off
The old and new systems run side by side until the numbers match. After that we hand over the keys along with documentation and training.
Proof
Work like this, written up
Each write-up explains what the client was up against and how our fix turned out.
Thomson’s Landscaping
We rebuilt a point-of-sale system from scratch so it would run on new hardware. Cashiers kept the hotkeys they already knew, and it talks to the inventory system we built for Thomson’s years ago.
BodhiSys Custom ApplicationHHI Rentals, LLC
A rental business was juggling a pile of disconnected tools. We built them one platform that handles the storefront, scheduling, routing, and the driver workflow.
1 platform replacing a stack of separate rental tools
Mobile Phone AppOryza Asian Grill
You could already order from Oryza online or in store, through a scattered set of links. We built a landing app for both app stores that puts locations and ordering in one place, with catering and social links alongside.
2 app stores shipped to: Apple and Android
Get a clear read on your technology
We'll run a free audit and explain what we find in plain language. You keep the report whatever you decide.
Get Free Audit →Where we work
Access Migration for Commerce & Retail, by market
Pick the market closest to you. We send the same people and follow the same process everywhere we work.
Mid-Ohio Valley
Central Ohio
Southwest Ohio
Questions we get asked
About Access Migration for Commerce & Retail
Can you move a Microsoft Access database to the cloud?
Yes, that is what this service does. Your business processes move across intact, and you review and approve the blueprint and the prototypes at each checkpoint. Nobody has to rebuild the workflow from memory afterward.
Will we lose our data or our reports?
No. During the review we list the reports people run and rebuild each one as part of the scope. The month-end report comes across with everything else.
Does the team have to relearn everything?
No. We document how the work runs before we rebuild anything, so the new system looks familiar to the people who used the old one. It also works on desktop, tablet and phone.
Our Access database still works. Why move it?
If it works well, leave it alone. The audit shows you where the risk sits, whether that's a single shared drive, one machine holding the only working copy, a version nobody can license any more, or a developer who has left.
Do you work with shops and retailers?
Yes. Shops and retailers across Ohio are a big part of our client list. The process stays the same whatever the sector: an audit, a written scope you approve, prototype checkpoints where they fit, and then launch and support.
Are we too small for Microsoft Access migration?
Almost certainly not. Most of our clients are businesses where the person in charge of technology is in charge of three other things too, and we built the process around that person.
What does Access Migration cost?
Scope decides it, so the free audit comes before any number. You get a fixed written quote before anything is billed, and you keep the audit whether or not you hire us. Digital Marketing is the one exception, sold at a published monthly price.
Can Access Migration work around the systems we already own?
Yes, and that is where we start. We modernize around what you already have. When something has to go, the audit shows you what keeping it costs before we price replacing it.
Free audit
Let's get started
Tell us what's giving you trouble, in your own words. "Our Access database is dying" is plenty to go on.