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.
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