Oracle has officially announced January 31, 2029, as the End of Life (EOL) of NetSuite SiteBuilder and SuiteCommerce (SCA) 18.1 and older versions. Migrate to the latest version of SuiteCommerce Standard or SuiteCommerce Advanced (SCA) with zero data loss, as your data will never leave your NetSuite instance.
Our SuiteCommerce specialists have enabled growing businesses to switch to the e-commerce platform backed by the powerful NetSuite ERP.
You might be thinking that 2029 is far, and your SuiteCommerce migration can wait. But here’s exactly why running your ecommerce website on
NetSuite SiteBuilder and legacy SuiteCommerce Advanced for longer will hurt your business:
Your site developed on SiteBuilder and SuiteCommerce Advanced 18.1 or older versions will accumulate more technical debt until January 2029 arrives. This will straight up add to both the time and cost to perform the SuiteCommerce migration.
As of today, you can no longer use new features that your competitors are already using to run their ecommerce business. You’re missing out on improved transaction performance metrics, optimized payment processing integrations, and other useful features.
NetSuite SiteBuilder uses a legacy server-side rendering (SSR) engine that serves fully compiled images. But it slows down your site load time with full-page reloads. While SuiteCommerce Advanced uses client-side rendering, which improves the load time.
Users of legacy versions report poor search engine visibility and SEO performance due to Core Web Vitals (CWV) failing. Also, JSON-LD markups are not natively supported, which means rich snippets and product info are not visible to prospective customers.
SuiteCommerce Advanced 18.1 and older versions have a bug that causes your audience to see the pricing that you supposedly gated behind the “Require Login for Pricing” button, as search engines could scrape tiered pricing tables.
Folio3 helped us connect our ERP system with our SuiteCommerce site. The upgrade significantly improved data management, inventory accuracy, and customer communication. With Folio3’s help, we created a tool that scans our raw inventory and calculates our potential to build new products. Folio3’s team was responsive and collaborative throughout the implementation process.
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See for yourself the benefits of SuiteCommerce migration by comparing the newer vs. older versions of the NetSuite-powered ecommerce platform.
As an award-winning SuiteCommerce partner, Folio3 has earned a reputation for providing SuiteCommerce services to brands across different verticals, including but not limited to apparel retailers, food & beverage distributors, wholesalers, agricultural retailers, autoparts distributors, and more.
Folio3 has earned the SuiteCommerce Partner of the Year award and is an 11x recipient of the NetSuite Alliance Partner Spotlight Award.
We have migrated sites to SuiteCommerce from Shopify, Adobe Commerce (Magento), OpenCart, WooCommerce, and other platforms.
We have been in the NetSuite ecosystem for 20+ Years. This gives us an edge that translates into deep domain knowledge.
Our SuiteCommerce migration specialists ensure that there is no data loss when upgrading to a newer version.
Our 50+ SuiteCommerce experts ensure reduced technical debt and cover everything from troubleshooting theme issues to administration support.
Our ecommerce migration specialists also excel in migrating your SuiteCommerce site to Shopify/Shopify Plus,
Magento, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, and other ecommerce platforms.
We follow a structured, documented process to ensure the
SuiteCommerce migration project goes smoothly.
Our project team works closely with you to understand and finalize requirements and identify gaps, if any.
The project team then creates a comprehensive project plan detailing the project’s schedule along with deliverables and key milestones.
The developers and UI/UX engineers at Folio3 collaborate together to develop the new SuiteCommerce theme for your e-commerce store.
During development, our QA engineers perform quality assurance testing on different internal releases of the web store.
After the final round of the QA cycle, the new web store is made available to you for user acceptance testing (UAT).
Customer data and purchase history are migrated from the legacy website, and URL redirects are configured, if required.
After the successful completion of UAT and the final nod of approval from your side, your new SuiteCommerce online store goes live.
We provide 5 business days of post-go-live support at no additional cost under the service-level agreement (SLA).
See how we have made an impact by delivering top-tier services to our clients.
Built a SuiteCommerce site integrated with NetSuite ERP to support EiKO Premise’s online sales operations.
Connect with our ecommerce migration experts to discuss how to plan your migration journey from NetSuite SiteBuilder or legacy SuiteCommerce Advanced versions. We will also help you decide the most suitable SuiteCommerce migration packaging along with a detailed price quote.
Beyond SuiteCommerce migration, we offer comprehensive NetSuite SuiteCommerce services to support your ecommerce growth:
We support ecommerce brands in launching SuiteCommerce the right way and handle full setup, configuration, and platform readiness.
We make SuiteCommerce adapt to your unique operational requirements and business processes that are not possible with out-of-the-box SuiteCommerce.
We keep SuiteCommerce sites running at peak performance and provide ongoing maintenance, troubleshooting, and technical enhancements.
We provide strategic guidance to ecommerce brands and help them understand how they can leverage SuiteCommerce to make wise decisions for their businesses.
We have a team of NetSuite-certified SuiteCommerce developers who are always ready to help you with your SuiteCommerce development needs.
We help you with complex SuiteCommerce Advanced services, including My Account configuration, customization, checkout management, and more.
We offer full-stack SuiteCommerce SEO services, including competitive intelligence, keyword research, conversion rate optimization (CRO), and more.
We create SuiteCommerce themes for your brand to stand out from the crowd. All themes match your brand identity and the vertical you operate in.
SiteBuilder is still supported, but new feature development is focused on SuiteCommerce only. After the end-of-life date, SiteBuilder storefronts will no longer receive updates, security patches, or compatibility fixes. This will lead to operational disruption, which will increase issues in product catalog presentation, pricing logic, checkout workflows, and any internal dependencies tied to existing scripts or templates.
Performing a bundle update replaces all files in the existing SCA Source directory with the updated set of files. Your existing customizations must be re-deployed from your local environment before changes take effect on your live domain. This is why regression testing is critical, as SuiteScript customizations built for one version do not automatically survive a major upgrade.
Migrations are measured in months, and most teams approach them in phases. The good news is that a full data migration is not required since products, customers, pricing, orders, and operational data already exist in your NetSuite instance. The migration focuses on rebuilding the storefront and making adjustments, so data is consumed correctly by the new architecture. But customizations need to be rebuilt from scratch for SCA.
No. We run the full migration in a parallel environment. Your live storefront continues operating as usual. We only cut over traffic once you’ve reviewed and approved the migrated environment in staging, and we maintain a tested rollback path throughout.
Yes. All custom SuiteScript, theme extensions, checkout workflows, and third-party integrations are fully inventoried and rebuilt to current standards. If a customization is no longer viable in the new architecture, we will tell you upfront with alternatives before we start.
Migrating off SiteBuilder or legacy SCA almost always results in meaningful SEO and performance improvements. Common outcomes include:
Modern SuiteCommerce includes native B2B infrastructure: company accounts with multiple buyer contacts, customer-specific price lists, gated product catalogs, net payment terms, and purchase order capture at checkout. These required SuiteScript development to implement in legacy SCA versions. On newer versions (2025.2 and above releases), these are merchant-configurable without developer involvement.
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