How to Migrate Magento to osCommerce Magento is feature-rich shopping cart built on open source technology. It is one of the leaders in the e-Commerce world because of strong community, numerous extensions, regular updates. Nevertheless, it is rather difficult to manage Magento store without having middle or high programming skills. On the other hand, osCommerce is known for easy store management process, intuitive navigation, high security level. Thats why some merchants decide to migrate their stores from Magento to osCommerce.
Cart2Cart provides an opportunity for store owners to transfer all data from current Magento to desirable osCommerce effortlessly. All you have to do is follow an easy step by step instruction.
1. Create Cart2Cart Account To start work with Cart2Cart you have to sign in with your Google or Facebook account or register new one.
2. Select Source Cart On this step, you have to pick your current shopping cart from the drop-down menu. Then enter web store’s URL. After that, you have to install Connection Bridge on your computer. To perform that you have to:
download Connection Bridge; extract it from zip archive; use FTP client to paste bridge to the root directory.
For better understanding, you can look through our FAQ with video tutorials on how to download Connection Bridges.
3. Select Target Cart Now you have to repeat the same procedure with target osCommerce cart. Choose Target Cart, enter shop’s URL and install Connection Bridge.
4. Entities Selection Now you can choose which items should be moved to osCommerce. Put a tick near entity that have to be migrated or select Check All. On this step, there will also be an opportunity to pick additional options, but remember, they are for an additional cost.
5. Currency Mapping In a case you use more than one currency to sell products, Cart2Cart provides a possibility to move currencies, as well.
6. Order Statuses Mapping If you’ve chosen to migrate orders, on this step you can map their statuses.
7. Demo Migration Now you are ready to perform absolutely free Demo Migration. It will help you understand how everything works. Moreover, it will take only a few minutes, thats why we recommend not to skip this step.
8. Full Migration After Demo Migration is finished, you can start Full Migration. On this phase, you have a possibility to check entities one more time. Ensure you have enough money on account otherwise you will be asked to charge it. If everything is ok, press Start Full Migration button.
You will be able to track migration process right there or close your browser window. When data transferring is completed you will receive an email notification . Thats it! Now you can check migration results.