If you are looking for quick, easy way to migrate data

from your BigCommerce to Magento, LitExtension

Migration Modules should draw your attention. It allows

you to migrate products, categories, attributes, customers,

password, orders and other data from BigCommerce to

Magento. The process is straightforward and requires no

technical knowledge.

1. Preparation

For Source Store:

Please ensure you have the right privilege to login into your Source

Store backend for creating API accounts.

Source Store can operate normally during migration as it requires a

very limited resource for the process

For Target Store:

It is strongly recommended to backup Magento Target Store first.

Target Store should be placed in a stable hosting or in localhost.

It also must not block connection to Source Store.

Webserver (mostly apache) should have full permission to write on

/media folder.

PHP Compatibility: PHP 5.3 or later.

Magento Compatibility: 1.7 or later.

Required PHP extensions:

Required PHP configurations:

memory_limit no less than 256Mb

allow_url_fopen must be On.

pdo_mysql CD

simplexml DOM

mcrypt curl

hash mb_strings

2. Setup

After downloading the product zip file from our Store, please

extract it into a folder

2.1 Migration Tool Setup

This tool is a Magento Module which acts like a hub at Magento

side to receive data and import it into Magento database. It can

be installed just like all other Magento Modules, please follow

our general Installation Guide:

http://litextension.com/docs/cart_service_migration_user_guide.pdf

2.2 Create API Key and Password for Shopify

In order to enable data migration to or from BigCommerce, you will

need to provide an API Password for your store. So, here is a step-

by-step tutorial that will help you to get this information by your

own.

1. At first, log in to your store's admin area and go to Apps Menu.

2. Than, press Private Apps button

3. Click Generate a Private App button.

4. Enter the title of your new Private App and save the changes.

5. Right after that, you will see your API Key and Password.

You will then need to copy and paste these info into migration Step 1.

3. Plugins Setup

Plugins are purchased and setup separately into Magento 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 Magento 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 Magento 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 Magento Store.

Customer Password Plugin: special plugin which adds the ability to

read passwords encrypted by BigCommerce to Magento. All

passwords are migrated over and remains encrypted, customers can

login to the new shop right away without the need of resetting

passwords. "Zencart to Magento" and "Magento to Magento" tools

natively support migrating passwords and do not need this plugin.

To install plugins just copy plugin files into the instructed folder inside

Cart Migration Magento Module. New functionalities will be

enabled.

4. Input Your License Key

License Key is an encoded string which comes with your

download package. This key is needed 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 Magento Target Store backend, select Cart Migration >

Configuration, and copy and paste your license key here:

5. Migration

Please login your Magento Target Store backend, select Cart Service

Migration > Migration

The migration will go through 3 simple steps. Just hit “Next” when

you finish one step to advance.

Step 1: : Source Cart Configuration

Cart Type: Select corresponding source cart type (auto

selected as BigCommerce)

Cart Url: BigCommerce store original url

API Key, Password: Created in section 2. SETUP

Step 2: : Migration Configuration

Root Category: the category of current Magento 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 Magento Store. You

may need to create additional languages in Magento Store to avoid data loss.

Currencies Mapping: Assign Source Cart currencies to proper Target Magento

Store currencies. Creating currencies in Target Magento Store may be needed.

Orders Status Mapping: Assign Source Cart order statuses to proper Target

Magento Store order statuses. Creating additional order statuses in Target

Magento 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 Magento 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.

3.4 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.

After the migration is completed, click on “Clear Cache and ReIndex

Data” to finish. If you don’t want to run it right here or it returns

false here, you can do that manually in System > Cache

Management and System > Index Management.

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 Service Migration >

Configuration from Magento 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.