Migration · One facility, migrated from another system

Operator, 188 units

188 units, their customers and their billing anchors moved in a single night. In the morning the tenants received their gate codes by SMS.

188
units migrated
1 night
for the real import
0
days of downtime

The situation

The operator ran 188 units on a single site in another self-storage package and wanted to move to Boxi without any downtime for tenants. There was one condition: no customer could lose access to their unit or notice a gap in their billing.

What we moved

From the previous system we exported the occupancy of all 188 units, the customer records, the rental contracts and the billing anchors — the day of the month each rental is counted from. The import ran in two stages: a dry run first, to check that the number of units, customers and balances matched, then the real write overnight.

How the switchover day looked

The real import took one night. Boxi issued the gate codes during the import, and in the morning every tenant received their own code by SMS — with no visit to an office and no phone call to the operator.

What changed

Customers book and extend rentals online instead of calling the office. The operator issues and sends gate codes from the Boxi panel rather than by hand. Invoices go automatically into the operator’s accounting system, with no line items retyped.

Boxi skacze z radości

„We moved 188 units in one night. In the morning customers drove onto the site as usual, and two days later we switched the old system off, because everything added up.”

Facility owner, 188 units