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How to Manage Magento Store After Migration with Cart2cart
Edited by Martin Wann, Maluniu, Advice.on.everything
When you finally have completed migration to Magento,[1] the first thing to be done is to check the new store. Nonetheless, if migration was performed successfully there still are some things that have to be performed before you start selling. In this article you are going to read about what should be done after migration to Magento.
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Steps
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1How to Re-index. Cart’s trick is, that it makes an inventory of data to control it swiftly. If you do some substantive changes, you have to re-index data to make them visible on the front end. Until it is done some of the entities won’t be shown.
- Log in to your admin panel.
- Choose System-> Index management-> There Select all
- Click Submit
- Note: Red status indicators need to be re-indexed. When the re-indexing is done the status changes into green.
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2How to Clear Cache. To make changes visible in Magento interface, you have to clean cache. To do that go to admin panel:
- Choose System-> Cache management-> Select all and Press Submit
- Then Click Flush Magento cache
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3Out of Stock products are not shown on the front end
- Magento won’t let the customers to see not available goods.
- Go to System -> Choose Configuration-> Catalog(on the left)->Inventory->Product stock options.
- In the field Manage Stock choose NO and Save config.
- Go to System-> Configuration -> Catalog->Inventory->Stock options. Choose Display Out of Stock Products -> YES
- Start reindex. System-> Index management-> Select all -> Submit
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4Categories or products are not shown on the front end. Find the problem in location of the product or in its status. Check the following:
- Visit Product editing section.
- Catalog->Manage Products and select a product
- Look at the list of entities, to make sure that they in the right position.
- On the Inventory Tab check the item for the In-Stock status. It should be marked In-Stock to be displayed.
- In the General Tab choose Enable for the status. Make visibility to ‘Catalog’ or ‘Catalog and Search’
- When all changes done visit System->Index Management and reindex items
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5Product images are not shown on the front end. Those who use Magento face it often. To resolve it properly do next steps:
- Visit product editing section. Click Catalog->Manage Products and tick a product
- Then make changes in the file permissions in magento/media to ’777′ (full read/write access)
- On the Images Tab, look if product images are uploaded. The check box “Exclude” should be unchecked and the radios to include it for thumbnail, base image, and small image are selected for the respective images
- Open System->Configuration->Catalog->Product Image Placeholders, there make sure that every of default images are suitable for respective images types.
- In the magento/media folder delete the .htaccess file
- Go to System->Cache Management -> Flush catalog images cache
- After that go to Magento’s front end, there you can monitor if all of products have images.
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6Tax Management After Migration. If you want to specify your prices with taxes visit admin panel.
- Go to System-> Configuration-> Taxes
- Open the section Calculation Settings
- If you want to bring under or rule out the prices with taxes go to Catalog Pricing.
- In the end click Save Config
- After all changes done you may successfully run your Magento store.
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Tips
- The work speed of your shop won’t be influenced by migration. A new online store without data will work much faster than one with thousands of products, customers and orders. Make sure that your web hosting suits Magento system requirements[2]
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Warnings
- Magento’s accounting system may vary from your Source store’s one, as a result the difference between lifetime sales and average order sum may appear.
- Pay attention, store design and users passwords aren’t migrated
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