How to Switch from Xt:Commerce to Magento with Cart2Cart
Edited by Natalia Klliashtoforska, Laura, BR, Hailey Girges and 6 others
Have you made a decision to change your xt:Commerce cart to Magento? Probably you consider the current platform as not good enough for your web store management. Taking into account all main features of xt:Commerce it is free and based on the earlier versions of osCommerce. The cart is more popular in the countries of the Central Europe like Germany. However, it has some disadvantages which can make online store owners thinking about migrating from the platform, including frequent troubles with the currency conversion, default language identifying and others.
So, why you may want to move to Magento? Many people believe it is the best shopping cart because of top-end functionality it offers. For example, it allows to run a few stores at one time from a single administrative panel - what is really impressive. Moreover, Magento offers a vast number of add-ons that can expand cart functionality and a big SEO potential. Then you should remember about advantage of frequent updates, its customizability and CMS capabilities. If you have chosen to switch your store from xt:Commerce to Magento, there is a useful guidance below to help you:
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1Do the pre-migration validation
- Analyze site traffic and choose the time when it is the lowest.
- Make a backup.
- Notify users about time of migration.
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2Registration.
- Register a new Cart2Cart account.
- If you have a Google or Facebook account, then you will have a possibility to log in with the help of your existing profile. Easy and convenient.
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3Setup new migration.
- Provide information about your source xt:Commerce cart.
- Select a proper version from drop down list.
- Enter URL of a source store.
- Download and install the connection bridge. The installation process includes three stages:
- download files;
- unzip them;
- copy to the root file with the help of
Filezilla or Total Commander [1].
- According to the same principle, provide information about your Magento target store. Download and install the connection bridge as it was described before.
- Provide information about your source xt:Commerce cart.
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4Choose the entities for migration.
- You can select from products, categories, customers, orders, taxes, manufacturers and currencies.
- Check additional options if needed.
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5Map languages, currencies and order statuses.
- Such procedure does not take a lot of time, but noticeably simplifies store management after migration.
- Such procedure does not take a lot of time, but noticeably simplifies store management after migration.
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6Start free demo migration.
- You are ready to proceed with the demo migration.
- Up to 10 entities will be moved to your target Magento store.
- This procedure is free and will take 10-30 minutes, so do not skip this step.
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7Confirm full migration.
- Check specified entities one more time and make sure to have enough funds on your account.
- It is time to complete your transfer with the pressing of one button “Start Full Migration”.
- Automated migration service will move selected entities to a target store in a few hours.
- You will receive an email when migration is done.
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- Customers will be able to surf pages of your source store during migration. So keep in mind, that you can proceed orders while your data is moving.
- After migration is done, make sure to:
- Take care about SEO.
- Customize store design.
- Ask users to recover their passwords.
- Test your site by making test purchase.
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Edit Warnings
- Cart2Cart is a commercial tool, so use Online Estimator[2] to calculate a price of personally your migration before transfer.
- Due to Magento platform peculiarities after any changes like updating products you will have to reindex data, so the changes will be displayed on the front end[3]
- Disable all redirects for the time of migration
