How to Migrate from osCommerce to Zen Cart [Video]

osCommerce is an open source PHP based shopping cart with a great experience. It used to be one of leaders in the e-Commerce world. Since then appeared a lot of shopping carts that can provide better opportunities for online business. One of them is Zen Cart. It offers useful product management features, a wide range of templates and numerous addons. These are the main reasons why store owners decide to migrate from osCommerce to Zen Cart. Cart2Cart will make the process of migration fast and accurate. It is fully automated, so it is not required to have high programming skills. Watch our video tutorial and look through step by step instruction and perform migration effortlessly.

Step 1. Register an Account

It is possible to sign in via your existing Google or Facebook profile or create a Cart2Cart account.

Step 2. Select Source Cart

At this point, you have to pick osCommerce from the drop-down menu. Then paste store’s URL. The

next phase is to install Connection Bridge. To do that you have to download unpack and upload a

bridge to your store root directory. For better convenience, we recommend you to look through FAQ.

Step 3. Select Target Cart

On this step, you have to enter information about your Target Cart. Pick Zen Cart from a menu and

paste store’s URL. After that, you have to set up a Connection Bridge as you did on a previous step.

Step 4. Entities Selection

Here, you can choose entities that have to be shifted from osCommerce store to Zen Cart. Put a

ticks near items that have to be moved. Moreover, Cart2Cart provides an opportunity to select

additional options like create product variants or transfer images in product descriptions. Take into

consideration that most of this options are paid.

Step 5. Currencies Mapping

If you use several languages to sell products, Cart2Cart provides a possibility to map them. In a

case, you don’t need such an option, just skip this step.

Step 6. Order Statuses

If you decided to transfer orders, on this step you have an opportunity to map their statuses.

Step 7. Demo Migration

Cart2Cart provides a possibility to try how everything works before Full Migration. During the

process of Demo Migration will be transferred limited number of items. After that, you will be able to

evaluate an outcome. We will really appreciate if you rate Demo Migration results.

Step 8. Full Migration

Here, you have a possibility to check entities one more time. Make sure you have enough cash on

an account and check if you have a discount coupon code. Now you are ready to perform Full

Migration. It will take some time.

After Full Migration is completed, you will receive an email. After that, you will be able to check

migration results on your desirable Zen Cart store.