Migrating from Payload to your next platform.
WAYF moves teams off Payload when that decision is made — the content model, Lexical rich text, media, and URLs mapped onto the platform your organization has chosen. Tell us what you're running below and we'll scope the move.
Teams rarely leave Payload for technical reasons; the decision usually arrives as organizational standardization — a parent company consolidating vendors, or procurement aligning every property on one contract. What makes the exit tractable is what Payload is: an MIT-licensed codebase you own, content in your own MongoDB, Postgres, or SQLite database, media in your own storage, and a content model written in TypeScript that doubles as the field-by-field specification of the move.
Content comes out through the official import-export plugin as JSON or CSV, or through scripts against the REST, GraphQL, or Local API. The real work is the transform: Lexical rich text is a JSON node tree that has to be re-emitted in the destination's format, custom blocks need explicit mapping decisions, and logic that lives in hooks and access control is re-expressed on the destination platform. The front end usually stays — when Payload runs headless behind your own code, swapping the backend leaves the site and its URLs in place.
Who runs the migration
We are a Payload partner agency and a top contributor to the project. When something in the platform needs attention, we have direct access to the maintainers.
We have run this kind of move at enterprise scale. We migrated Ingersoll Rand's China sites off Oracle Content Manager in five months, with zero downtime at cutover, and we built the Council of Europe Development Bank's events platform to the deadline of their 70-year anniversary.
The first conversation is a free consultation. Scope, cost, and timing are agreed before any work starts.