How to Migrate Magento to WooCommerce Magento is one of the leaders in the e-Commerce world, which has conquered the biggest market share. Main reasons of such success are rich features, large community and regular updates. Nonetheless, even such famous and well recognised platform has its cons. Often emerchants claim that it is rather difficult to manage Magento storewithout having high programming skills. Thats why store owners decide to move Magento to WooCommerce, which is known for easy store managing. Moreover, WooCommerce shopping cart provides additional opportunities as it is WordPress plugin. Cart2Cart provides the easiest way to migrate Magento to WooCommerce. It is fully automated so you will save your time and efforts. All you have to do is to follow an instruction.
1. Create Cart2Cart Account To start your migration, you have to register Cart2Cart account. Cart2Cart provides a possibility to sign in via your Google or Facebook account.
2. Setup Your Source Cart Choose Magento from the list and enter store’s URL. After that, you have to install a Connection Bridge. To do that you have to download file, extract it from zip archive and paste to the root directory. Follow the detailed instruction here.
3. Setup Your Target Cart Now you have to repeat the same stages with a Target WooCommerce Cart. 1. Select WooCommerce from the list. 2. Enter shop’s URL. 3. Setup a Connection Bridge.
4. Select Entities On this step, it is possible to select entities such as products, products categories, orders, customers or everything at once.
5. Multi-store Configuration Since Magento supports multi-store, you are able to map Source and Target stores.
6. Map Currencies If you have multiple currencies on your Magento store, you can map all of them to WooCommerce shop.
7. Map Order Statuses Here, you can map certain order statuses from Magento to WooCommerce.
8. Start Demo Migration While Demo Migration will be transferred limited number of entities (products, orders or customers) for free. After that, you will be able check results on your WooCommerce store and evaluate how Cart2Cart works.
9. Start Full Migration Right at this point, you can start Full Migration. Check if you have enough funds on an account. It is also possible to use coupon code if you have one.
At this point, you can close the browser window. You will receive an email when migration is finished. The results of data transferring will be visible on your WooCommerce store. After that, you have to test your newly established shop to make sure everything works fine.