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Real walkthroughs for real migration decisions - exactly what to click, and exactly what happens, for the situations merchants actually run into.

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Getting Started

Marked your migration complete too soon? What you can undo

Mark One-Time Migration Complete is optional and closes your plan's tools. Here is exactly what it closes, the one-time Reopen unused tools option you have for 24 hours if you clicked it by mistake, what reopening does and does not bring back, and why the second time is final.

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Uninstall & Reinstall

Uninstalled unSquared by mistake? What happens when you reinstall

Reinstalling puts your store back at a first-time install: your purchase is no longer on record, so you see the Plans page again. Here is what is reset, what is kept for a short while, and what to do if you only want to pause.

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Product Catalog

Continue selling when out of stock: when to turn it on, and why

By default Shopify stops selling a variant the moment its stock hits zero. Here is what the Continue selling when out of stock setting changes, which shops it suits (made-to-order, backorders, pre-orders), which it does not, and how to use it safely.

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Product Catalog

Migrating products that have more than 3 options

Shopify allows only 3 options per product, but a Square item can have more. Here is what unSquared does with the extras, the setting that controls it, and where to see the result.

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Getting Started

Try a free preview of your Square data in Shopify before you buy

Right after you connect Square, see how a small sample of your own products, customers, gift cards and URL redirects would look in Shopify. It is free, read-only and creates nothing. Here is what you will see, and what a preview cannot tell you.

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Product Catalog

Why a whole Square product is skipped when just one of its variants already exists in Shopify

unSquared treats one matching SKU or barcode as a match for the entire Square product. Here's what that means for the variants that have no match, where the report flags it, and how to bring the complete product over.

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Getting Started

Why Products and Customers can't be migrated at the same time

Shopify allows only one large bulk transfer per store at a time, so unSquared now stops you starting Customers while Products is running (and the other way around). Here's what you'll see, why, and what still runs in parallel.

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Getting Started

Using one Square account with more than one Shopify store

Square keeps only one unSquared connection per Square account. Connect the same account on a second Shopify store and the first one loses its connection. Here's what unSquared does when that happens, and how to plan a move with two stores.

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Getting Started

unSquared says it was disconnected from Square - what happened and how to reconnect

Two different banners can appear on the Connect to Square page. One means unSquared was removed in your Square Dashboard; the other means your Square account was connected on another Shopify store. Here's how to tell them apart and get going again.

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