how to migrate data from cs-cart to magento using litextension
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HOW TO MIGRATE DATA FROM CS-CART TO MAGENTO USING LITEXTENSION
MIGRATION TOOL
If you are looking for quick, easy way to migrate data from your CS-Cart to Magento, LitExtension Migration Modules should draw your attention. It allows you to migrate products, categories, attributes, customers, password, orders and other data from CS-Cart to Magento. The process is straightforward and requires no technical knowledge.
1. Preparation
It is strongly recommended to backup Magento Target Store before
the migration. Target Store should be placed in a stable hosting or
in localhost.
2. Setup
First of all, choose a product you need from our Store:
http://litextension.com/shopping-cart-migration.html
After downloading the product zip file from our Store, please
extract it into a folder. The module consists of two main parts:
Cart Migration Magento Module (“app” and “skin” folder) and
Source Cart Connector ("magento_connector" folder)
2.1 Cart Migration Magento Module Setup
Magento Data Migration Module 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 Source Cart Connector Setup
Extract "magento_connector" into Source Cart root folder
After finished please make sure Migration Connector can be
reached at:
http(s)://yourstore.com/magento_connector/connector.php
For 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. Migration
Please login your Magento 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.
Step 1: : Source Cart Configuration
Cart Type: Select corresponding source cart type (CS-Cart)
Cart Url: source cart full url
Cart Token: the token string which has been configured in
connector.php
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.
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.
4. 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.
5. Advanced ConfigurationAccess 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.