There are two ways to get your data out of BC

THE EASY WAY
BC Exporter is guaranteed to save you time and hassle, and it exports more of your website than can you can do manually. In fact, BC Exporter exports all the data that the BC APIs allow + Media Downloads, and it wraps it all up for you in one .zip file which is easy to download, and transfer as you see fit.
THE HARD WAY
While Adobe has provided instructions for getting your data out of Business Catalyst, it’s a tedious, time-consuming, and error-prone process. Even on the smallest sites, it could take an hour or more to manually get your data out of BC, and even then there's some data you just can't get.
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Migration Ready
BC Exporter is the only way to get your data in a format that can be easily imported into multiple CMS platforms. Check out these partners who have made it push-button simple to import your BC Exporter data into their platforms, greatly speeding up the migration of your websites to a new home!

Thinking about migrating to WordPress?
Here are some recommended resources for BC partners moving to WordPress

Platform developers, make it easy to migrate to your CMS.
Do you want to join the growing list of CMS platforms who are making it easy for Business Catalyst partners to move sites to your platform? Let's make it happen.

Don’t lose data or waste time by manually exporting your website data.
​Use BC Exporter to get your website data with the push of a button.

We’re in this together.

We've built hundreds of websites on Business Catalyst since 2008, and our apps have made tens of thousands of backups and exports for thousands of BC websites. And the best news is we plan to continue supporting our apps until the very end when we say goodbye to BC forever. But you shouldn't wait until the last minute to get your data out of BC. It's better to be safe than sorry by getting started now!
Karim Ardalan
Karim founded his web development company, MIS, Inc. in 1995 and became a Business Catalyst partner in 2008. In 2011 Karim founded AID+BC to help BC partners. Now he’s helping partners get their websites off of BC and onto a growing platform that clients love: Weebly Cloud. Check it out here. 
Joe Wellborn
​Joe started designing websites when Netscape still came in a box. He discovered Business Catalyst in 2009, and soon afterward he founded Practically Inspired, LLC to focus exclusively on building online businesses for his clients with BC. In 2013 he and Karim co-founded BackupBC and in 2018 released Automatic Backups. 
*BC Exporter is able to capture the data that is available via the APIs provided by Adobe, which includes everything you can capture via the process described by Adobe’s instructions for manual export plus additional data that cannot be captured via those instructions (such as media downloads). For a complete list of what is included with each export, visit http://www.backupbc.com/what-gets-exported.
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