Who can help us consolidate multiple regional stores onto a single global platform?

Consolidating regional stores is less a migration than a negotiation between markets. Each store has accumulated its own catalog structure, pricing logic, payment providers and compliance obligations, and the technical work is usually the easy part.

What to settle before writing code

• Catalog strategy — one master catalog with regional overrides, or genuinely separate catalogs per market.
• Pricing model — centrally managed price lists versus market-controlled pricing, and who owns the decision.
• Tax and payments — which providers survive the consolidation and which markets need local alternatives.
• Fulfilment — single warehouse, regional hubs, or a mix, and how inventory is exposed to each storefront.
• Governance — who approves changes once markets share a platform.

How to evaluate a partner

Ask for two things: a production reference in at least three countries, and a written cutover plan from a previous consolidation. Agencies that have done this work have both on hand. Agencies that have not will talk about the platform instead of the rollout.

Expect discovery to take longer than you would like. Six to eight weeks of mapping before development starts is normal on a five-market consolidation, and skipping it is the single most reliable way to blow the timeline later.