How to Transfer Store Ownership in SureCart

Transferring store ownership in SureCart lets you give someone else full control of your store. 

This is helpful if you sell your business, stop managing the store, or want to make someone else the owner. For example, if you sell your online store, you can quickly transfer everything to the new owner. 

In this article, we’ll show you how to add the new owner as a team member and then transfer the store to them in a few easy steps.

Add new Organization

Before you can transfer the store to the new account we need to create an organization and move our store in the organization, In the end we will move the organization with the store not only the store.

• Go to the SureCart platform select the store and click Switch organization

• Click on the New Organization button

• Name the organization and click the Create New Organization button

That it, now we have created new organization and we can move the Store intothis organization

Move store into the organization

• Open the SureCart platform and select the store you want to transfer

• Navigate to the General tab and scroll down to the “Transfer Store” button.

• In the pop-up window, select the destination organization where the store will be transferred. and hit the Transfer button.

That is, your store is now transferred to another organization, in the next step we will add new member to the organization.

Add the New Owner as a Team Member

Before you can transfer ownership, you need to invite the person as a team member in the same organization

• Go to the SureCart platform and select the desired store.
• Go to Organization settings and open the Members from the left sidebar.
• Go to Invites top right and click on the “Invite Member” button.
• Enter the person’s name, and email address, and assign them the necessary roles, such as Admin or Developer. In this case, we need to select Admin
• Click the “Send Invite” button.

Once you send the invitation, the new owner will receive an email. They need to accept the invite and join the store as a team member.

For more details on inviting team members, check out this article.

Transfer Store Ownership

After the person has accepted the team member invite, you can transfer the store ownership to them. To do this:

• Go to the Organization setting and from the general tab click on the Transfer Ownership button

• Click on their name and click the “Transfer Store” button here.

• Next, you need to confirm the transfer in the dialog box that appears.

Note: Once you transfer ownership, you’ll no longer have control over the store unless the new owner permits you again.

Your store ownership has now been successfully transferred to the new team member.