HOW TO MIGRATE DATA FROM CS-CART TO PRESTASHOP USING LITEXTENSION TOOL

If you are looking for quick, easy way to migrate data from your CS-Cart to Prestashop, 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 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. “CS-Cart 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 (CS-Cart)

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.