HOW TO MIGRATE DATA FROM WP ECOMMERCE TO PRESTASHOP USING LITEXTENSION TOOL
If you are looking for quick, easy way to migrate data from your WP e-Commerce to Prestashop, LitExtension Migration Modules should draw your attention. It allows you to migrate products, categories, attributes, customers, password, orders and other data from WP e-Commerce to Prestashop. The process is straightforward and requires no technical knowledge.
1. PREPARATION
For Source Store: Please ensure you have the right permission to upload files into your Source
Store It must not block access from Target Store to the connector. Source Store can operate normally during migration as it requires a very limited
resource for the process.
For Target Store: Target Store should be placed in a stable hosting or in localhost. PHP Curl must be enabled. PHP Fopen (allow_url_fopen) must be On. It also must not block connection to Source Store. Webserver (mostly apache) should have full permission to write on /img folder. Demo mode on backend should be turned off
It is strongly recommended to backup Magento Target Store first.
2. SETUP
After downloading the product zip file from our Store, please extract it into a folder.
The module consists of two main parts: Prestashop Data Migration Module
(“leCartMigration” folder) and Source Cart Connector (“prestashop_connector”
folder)
2.1 Prestashop Data Migration Module Setup
Prestashop Data Migration Module is a Prestashop Module which acts like a hub at
Prestashop side to receive data and import it into Prestashop database. It can be
installed just like all other Prestashop Modules:
Using your FTP software, place the folder in your PrestaShop /modules folder.
Go to Back Office >> Modules.
Locate the new module in the list, scrolling down if necessary.
In the row for the new module, click Install.
2.2 Source Cart Connector Setup
Extract “prestashop_connector” into Source Cart root
folder. After finished please make sure Migration
Connector can be reached at:
http(s)://yourstore.com/prestashop_connector/connector.
php
You will get a message “Connector Installed” once it is installed properly.If you have any problem reaching the link please ensure you have htaccess configured correctly and the file has execution permissionFor security, please open connector.php, find this very first line:define('LECM_TOKEN', '123456');And change "123456" to another string, this will be used to enter to the Migration Form (Cart Token) and acts like "password" to prevent unauthorized data access to your source store.
3. PLUGINS SETUP
Plugins are purchased and setup separately into Prestashop Data Migration
Module. They will provide additional functionalities to the tool.
Normally plugins need to be customized and tweaked by LitExtension
Team to fit customers requirements and will be sent to customers later
on. There are a few types of plugin:
Products and Categories SEO Urls Plugin: helps migrate Products and
Categories urls. Old urls will be saved in Target Prestashop Store and
will be maintained to keep all current SEO ranking you have built up for
years.
Custom Fields Plugin: help migrate custom fields from Source Store to
Target Prestashop Store. This is useful in case customers have
customized their store, for example: adding fields to database tables, and
also want to migrate these fields into Prestashop Store.
Customer Password Plugin: special plugin which adds the ability to
read passwords encrypted by Source Stores to Prestashop. All
passwords are migrated over and remains encrypted, customers can
login to the new shop right away without the need of resetting
passwords. “WP e-Commerce to Prestashop " tool natively
supports migrating passwords and does not need this plugin.
To install plugins, just copy plugin files into the instructed folder
inside Cart Migration Prestashop Module. New functionalities will
be enabled.
4. ENTER LICENSE KEY
License Key is an encoded string which comes with your download
package. This key is required to activate your Migration Tool.
1. After purchasing the product, please login to our store and enter
“My downloadable products” section. Here you will find
download link and license key for the download package.
2. Login your Prestashop Target Store backend, select Cart
Migration > Configuration, and copy and paste your
license key here:
5. MIGRATION
Please login your Prestashop Target Store backend, select Cart Migration >
Migration
The migration will go through 3 simple steps. Just hit “Next” when you
finish one step to advance.
5.1 Migration Step 1: Source Cart Configuration
Cart Type: select corresponding source cart type (WP e-Commerce)
Cart Url: source cart base url, please enter the correct url as this will be
registered in your license.
Cart Token: the token string which has been configured in
connector.php
5.2 MIGRATION STEP 2: MIGRATION CONFIGURATION
Root Category: the category of current Prestashop store to import all source
cart categories into.
Languages Mapping: If your Source Cart is multilingual, corresponding
languages ( or storeviews) should be available in Target Prestashop Store. You
may need to create additional languages in Prestashop Store to avoid data loss.
Currencies Mapping: Assign Source Cart currencies to proper Target
Prestashop Store currencies. Creating currencies in Target Prestashop Store
may be needed.
Orders Status Mapping: Assign Source Cart order statuses to proper Target
Prestashop Store order statuses. Creating additional order statuses in Target
Prestashop Store may be needed.
Entities to Migrate: select all entities to migrate or just a part of them
ADDITIONAL OPTIONS:
Clear current data on Target Store before Migration: if you choose this option,
all current products, categories, manufacturers, customers, orders, product
reviews, taxes will be cleared.
Migrate categories and products SEO URLs: if you choose this option, old SEF
urls of source will be preserved in Target Prestashop Store, allowing you to
maintain your Pagerank.
Transfer images in product descriptions to Target Store: download all images in
product description into your store so that it won’t have to refer back to your
source store or anywhere else for images.
Preserve Customer IDs on Target Store: this will help you preserve your old
Customer IDs for easier reference.
Preserve Order IDs on Target Store: this will help you preserve your old Order
IDs for easier reference.
5.3 Migration Step 3: Migration
The migration will take place automatically in this final step. In
order for it to progress, you should not close your browser of
remove Source Cart Connector. Information shows in this step:
1. Source cart: source cart base url you have entered in Step 1,
this url will be registered with your license.
2. Entity limit: the limit associated with your license. To change
this value, you need to upgrate/purchase another license code.
3. Tips slider: handly tips you should know
4. Migration progress: show current progress
5. Console: show debug information.
After the migration is completed, click on “Clear Cache
and Re-build Index” to finish. If you don’t want to run it
right here or it returns false for any reason, you can do
that manually in "Advanced Parameters > Performance >
Clear Cache" and "Preferences > Search > Re-build the
entire index"
Advanced Parameters > Performance > Clear Cache
Preferences > Search > Re-build the entire index
6. MIGRATION RESUMING
When a problem occurring on the migration process, Migration
Tool provide the ability to resume the process in two ways:
1. Automatically resume on the spot: the tool will automatically
resume after a failure until all data is imported.
2. Manually resume: you can refresh the page to go back to Step
1 and click on “Resume”, this is helpful when you want to
temporarily stop migration and resume when you want to.
7. ADVANCED CONFIGURATION
Access Advanced Configuration by going to Cart Migration >
Configuration from Prestashop backend menu. All default values are
configured to work with most cases, thus it is recommended to change
these values only when it is necessary to.
XXX Per Batch: Cart Migration splits each entity data into
small batches (or chunks) and import them in turn. This option
defines batch size to process in each turn. Depending on your
Magento hosting resource you can change the values
accordingly. The lower the value is, the less time and resource
Magento spends to process a batch, also the longer overall time
to import full data.
Delay Time: the sleeping time between each batch. This option
defines the “break time” for both Source Store and Target Store.
It is also helpful to prevent Timeout issue if Source Store has
been setup to limit the number of requests in a period of time.
Auto Retry After: if by some reason, the batch process
fails, the tool will automatically retry after a period of
time defined by this option.
Source Cart Database Prefix: Fill this in only in case
your Source Cart does not support Table Prefix by
default (e.g CS-Cart), but has been customized to have
Custom Table Prefix
License Key: license key associated with your product.
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