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An ecommerce agency handover checklist that protects the working knowledge

Bring campaign history, product data, tracking ownership, reporting definitions, and operating context into a structured marketing handover.

A marketing handover should transfer the reasoning behind the setup as well as access to the tools. An account can be technically accessible while the new team still lacks the product context, measurement definitions, and test history needed to make sound decisions.

Establish ownership and appropriate access

List the advertising accounts, analytics property, Merchant Center or catalogs, tag management, product feeds, reporting, and relevant store integrations. Confirm who owns them and which permissions the new team actually needs.

Use the platforms’ normal access controls. Keep access proportionate to the work and make sure the retailer retains an understandable view of its own systems. A handover is not a reason to distribute passwords informally.

Transfer the commercial context

Provide the product groups, margin considerations, inventory constraints, delivery limitations, seasonality, and current offers that affect campaign choices. Identify any products the business deliberately avoids promoting and explain why.

Without this context, a new team may interpret an intentional exclusion as an oversight or scale a product whose economics changed recently. The operating explanation is often as important as the account configuration.

Document measurement and previous decisions

Record purchase definitions, transaction references, attribution settings, and known limitations. Note which integrations generate the data and who maintains them. Include unresolved issues rather than expecting the next team to rediscover them.

Share major tests with their hypotheses, conditions, results, and interpretation. A list of “winning ads” without the circumstances of the test can mislead a new team about what is likely to repeat.

Agree a sensible transition sequence

• Confirm access and ownership.
• Verify the live customer journey and important measurement signals.
• Review current campaigns before making broad changes.
• Assign responsibility for feeds, creative approvals, development, and operating updates.
• Set the reporting and communication expectations for the transition.

For an EP4P partnership, this information supports the assessment, launch plan, and agreed attribution rules. We fund and manage the advertising, so understanding what is already working—and what is uncertain—helps us make better early decisions. A careful handover protects useful knowledge while giving the new team room to challenge assumptions with evidence.