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Base44 to Webflow

Migrate from Base44 to Webflow

Base44 can get an application and its website online quickly. The migration starts by separating the two. I rebuild the public marketing surface in Webflow, move the content that belongs there, and leave the application logic in the system that should actually own it.

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A migration like this usually takes 2–4 weeks

Why people move

What changes when you move from Base44 to Webflow.

What is being compared Base44 Webflow
What the project is holding Base44 An application and its marketing pages, as one thing Webflow Marketing pages, and a link to wherever the application lives This row is the whole page. Everything below it follows from whether those two things should ever have been one thing.
Publishing a marketing change Base44 A change to the application project, and a deployment of it Webflow An edit and a publish, isolated from the application entirely
Where the data lives Base44 In the platform, with the application built around it Webflow Not in Webflow, which is the right answer for user data Webflow losing this row is the point of the split. A marketing site should not be a candidate to hold accounts, and a page arguing otherwise would be selling you a problem.
Signed out and signed in Base44 The same project and the same deploy Webflow Two systems, meeting at a seam somebody designed
Content model Base44 Whatever the application's data happens to be Webflow Collections modeled for publishing, separate from the product's data
SEO control Base44 Present, and secondary to the application Webflow Per-page control, sitemaps, redirects
Who maintains it Base44 The platform, for both halves at once Webflow Webflow for the site, and you for the application, which was always true

Once you have decided

What actually migrates.

What you have What happens Why
Marketing pages and content Rebuild Made again in Webflow. The old version is a reference rather than something that can be imported. Base44 can hand over the application's code, and none of it is a Webflow site structure. So the existing implementation is source material for the rebuild rather than something to import: exportable and importable are different words.
The application and its backend Depends Not answerable in general. Which one it is turns on your plan, your export or a decision nobody has made yet. Usually it stays, and that is the honest answer rather than the convenient one. If it has accounts, data and people using it on a Tuesday, moving it is a second project with a second budget, and nothing about the marketing site requires it.
Images and files Move Comes across as it is. The content survives the move and the work is transporting it, not remaking it. Collected from the exported project or from the running application, then compressed and rehosted on the way into Webflow.
URLs and redirects Reconfigure The same thing, set up again. Nothing is recreated, but it has to be pointed at the new site by hand. Mapped from what is published today, with the paths the application still answers left out of the map rather than redirected. That exclusion list is a decision somebody makes path by path.
Integrations Depends Not answerable in general. Which one it is turns on your plan, your export or a decision nobody has made yet. Each one gets the same question: is it serving a visitor or a user? Analytics and chat come across. Anything the product itself calls stays with the product.

Before you budget it

Where this migration gets complicated.

  1. 01

    The export answers a different question than the migration asks

    The code does come out, as an archive or through a connected repository, and that is genuinely useful for reading how the current thing works. It is not a Webflow site and no amount of it becomes one, so an estimate built on the word exportable is an estimate built on the wrong word.

  2. 02

    There is a second audience who are already logged in

    Every other migration here can be verified by loading pages. This one has people sitting on an address they saved months ago, and no amount of redirect testing covers them.

How it runs

How the migration works.

  1. 01

    Plan

    What belongs to the marketing site, what belongs to the application, and what the project or its export actually gives us to work from.

  2. 02

    Build

    Marketing pages are rebuilt as Webflow templates and components with the existing implementation open beside them as source material. The application stays live throughout.

  3. 03

    Migrate

    Content in, assets rehosted and checked against the source, and every address that changes given a rule pointing straight at its replacement.

  4. 04

    Launch

    Forms at the record, every template at three widths and every old address requested, all before anything is switched. Then typically 2–4 weeks from start to live, and a week of watching what the old addresses return.

What you are buying

What is included.

  • Design rebuild

    Rebuilt directly against the existing site.

  • Responsive development

    Desktop, tablet and mobile, built and checked.

  • CMS architecture

    Collections and fields mapped before build.

  • Content migration

    Migrated and checked against the source.

  • Asset migration

    Collected, compressed and rehosted.

  • Forms and integrations

    Tested through to the final record.

  • Redirects

    Changed URLs mapped directly to replacements.

  • Metadata and canonicals

    Preserved wherever possible.

  • Search footprint preservation

    URLs inventoried before and checked after.

  • Pre-launch QA

    Forms, templates and old URLs verified.

  • Post-launch support

    One week of indexing and traffic checks included.

Search visibility can move during a migration. The goal is to preserve what search engines already understand, and to catch what changed quickly after launch.

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Currently booking two to four weeks out.