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When a company enters the next stage of its growth, it needs to make a move to a more robust eCommerce solution. If you are one of those e-merchants who are looking for an optimal solution to migrate from Zen Cart to Magento, an easy step by step instruction will help you to migrate automatically.

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Edit Steps

  1. 1
    Prepare for Migration. To avoid possible issues it is recommended to perform a few steps which will also make your migration much more easier:
    • Choose a time when traffic is the lowest. Install a desirable Magento store and make sure it is running properly.
    • Make a Backup. In order to protect yourself, save your data on DVDs, hard drives or USB flash drivers.
    • Notify your customers, stockholders, suppliers about data migration. It will help you to decrease a traffic for the time of migration.
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  2. 2
    Sign in for Cart2Cart. The first thing you need to do to start the migration process is registration. You can create new account or just log in with already existing Google or Facebook account.
  3. 3
    Provide your current and desirable store information. Now choose your Source Cart and Target Cart - Zen Cart and Magento as it follows. Next task is to enter store’s URL and to download Connection Bridge. After that just copy it to your stores root folder with the help of FTP. You will get a connection between your carts which are going to participate in the migration process.
  4. 4
    Choose data you want to transfer. It is possible to move a variety of entities like products, reviews, product categories, manufacturers, taxes, customers, orders [1]. Also service will suggest you a list of additional options.Among them there are some important options which are not free such as preserving order IDs [2] on Target Store, transferring images in product descriptions to your Target Store, etc. So select details of your transfer and be ready for the next step.
  5. 5
    Perform free Demo Migration. This kind of migration is really useful as it allows you to check functionality of your new Magento store and to make sure that everything is ready for the next step. Quick process of 10-30 minutes and you can see how everything is going to look like. Don't forget that while Demo Migration you can transfer up to 10 entities and after to download CSV file with entities.
  6. 6
    Perform Full Migration. The last click of mouse and your migration will be completed. When the process is finished, you are going to be informed with an e-mail notification. Nothing to worry about.
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Video tutorial on how to migrate from Zen Cart to Magento with no efforts.

Edit Tips

  • Before migration it it highly recommended to turn off redirects.
  • Take care of proper image migration. Make sure you have enough space on your Magento store and then open acces to your folder by setting up folder permission 777.
  • You will need to have store access info (access to admin panel and FTP).
  • Magento is advanced and at the same time complicated platform. After migration you have to take care of store management [3]. It requires four main stages: reindex, clearing cache, product management, text management.
  • Enhance server settings for better requests and avoiding possible issues. [4]
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Edit Warnings

  • Pay attention that Cart2Cart is a commercial tool, you have a possibility to calculate the price of your migration with Migration Estimator [5].
  • Store design is not migrated, so you will need to customize it by yourself.
  • Inform customers to recover their passwords as you are able to migrate customer accounts, but not the passwords.
  • SEO URLs aren’t migrated [6], so you will have to: 1. set up 301 redirects, 2. inform Google about your site migration, 3. use a proper robots.txt file. .

Edit Sources and Citations

  1. ↑ http://www.shopping-cart-migration.com/shopping-cart-migration-options/77-zencart-to-magento-migration
  2. ↑ http://www.shopping-cart-migration.com/blog/44-migration-service-tips/9140-preserve-ids-after-store-migration-with-cart2cart
  3. ↑ http://www.shopping-cart-migration.com/magento-store-after-migration
  4. ↑ http://www.shopping-cart-migration.com/blog/42-magento/17304-4-steps-to-avoid-issues-during-zen-cart-to-magento-migration
  5. ↑ https://app.shopping-cart-migration.com/estimator
  6. ↑ http://www.shopping-cart-migration.com/blog/61-must-know-tips/7690-migrating-store-keep-your-seo-safe

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