Using the cloud edition with the intention of moving to the owned edition really isn’t a good idea for a couple reasons. We can move your installation to the owned edition but it requires a database export/import that only our staff can complete for you. This fee is $185.00 and is in addition to the money you’d spend on the cloud edition, plus the owned edition. The main reason we don’t advocate this though is the fact that once you move your affiliate program from our hosting to yours, everything your affiliates have built will become broken. That includes any images they are using, links, etc. Affiliates will need to log back in to get new links as your affiliate programs physical location will have changed. The cart integration plus SEO will need redone and SEO built to date will be lost as well. While it sounds like a good idea, it’s really a lengthy and sometimes painful process. We highly suggest that if you have intent to use the owned edition, do it up front and save the extra money spent, hassle of having to redo configurations and breaking everything built to date for your affiliates.
