subject: Migrating From Opencart To Magento Using Cart-2-cart [print this page] As the know-how and technology is changing, its really very difficult to keep up to date with it. Today with the advancement of Internet marketing, people mostly prefer online stores that save their time. Magento ecommerce is a highly praised platform, which has the features that provide better functionality to the website and thus fulfill the needs of present customers. Due to its flexibility, sometimes users prefer them more compared to other platforms like openCart. This article deals with the processes involved in the migration from openCart to Magento.
Migration from OpenCart to Magento
Magento ecommerce development platform provides the flexibility to run online stores. Magento is an open source platform, so it facilitates the accessibility of its file structure and source language. This is of great use to the developers and programmers, as they can modify these and then incorporate it into their own files. Though openCart platform is easily extendable, its customization is really difficult. Thus sometimes movement from open cart to Magento is opted.
Cart-2-Cart
Cart-2-Cart is an extension of Magento which allows the migration of OpenCart store data to the Magento application system. This movement of OpenCart e-commerce application data into Magento shopping cart is quite simple and reasonable.
Instructions to be followed
The below given instructions can be followed while moving from open cart to Magento:
During the migration from openCart to Magento, the first step to be followed is going to Cart-2-Cart, and then clicking the button Start Migration.
Next step is opening the account page by entering the username and password. When the page opens then a tab appears at the top of the page. This tab called My Migrations tab must be clicked.
To select the source cart type, go to the drop down menu and choose OpenCart from it. Now the source cart name and URL address must be entered. After this the Download button is clicked. By doing so a connection to Source Cart files will be established automatically by the Cart-2-Cart extension.
In order to set up connection to the Target Cart files, at first click the button named Target Cart Setup. Later from the drop-down menu of Target Cart Type, select Magento shopping cart. This step helps in creating a connection with the Target Cart files.
To select the data of our own wish, the Entries Selection button must be clicked. Then the check boxes in front of the data of our wish must be selected. This moves those data to the Magento store.
Then the Confirm Migration button is clicked and after this in order to start the process the Start Migration button is clicked.
Conclusion
I hope the instructions provided in this post gave you a brief idea of how to move from openCart to Magento ecommerce using Cart-2-Cart.
