How to migrate PrestaShop to Magento [Video] PrestaShop is popular e-Commerce solution, which today powers more than 130 000 online shops. It offers advanced marketing and SEO tools, helpful support and high level of security. However, merchants claim that PrestaShop store is not stable after major upgrades. Moreover, some important extensions are available only for additional costs. Thats why a lot of online store owners decide to migrate to Magento, which is more flexible and customizable, offers a huge number of extensions and is suitable for different store sizes.
In order to help those entrepreneurs move Prestashop to Magento, Cart2Cart provides a possibility to transfer all data automatically. It means you don’t need programming skills and software to download. All you have to do is to watch our video tutorial and follow an easy step by step instruction.
Step 1. Register You will have a possibility to sign in with your existing Google or Facebook account or register a new account.
Step 2. Select Your Source Cart Choose PrestaShop as your Source Cart. Then paste your current online shop’s URL. The next phase is to install Connection Bridge on your computer to give us access to your data. To perform that you have to: 1. download Connection Bridge; 2. extract it from archive; 3. shift bridge to the root directory. In order to paste Connection Bridge to the root directory you have to use FTP client (Total Commander, Filezilla etc.) To make the process of bridge installation easier we recommend to look through our FAQ, which includes video tutorials.
Step 3. Select Your Target Cart Pick Magento from the drop-down menu. Then enter target store’s URL. After that, you have to repeat the same procedure with Connection Bridge as it was explained on the previous step.
Step 4. Entities selection At this point, you will have an opportunity to choose items which have to be migrated by putting a tick near entities. On this step, it is also possible to select additional options. For PrestaShop to Magento migration it is possible to migrate products and product categories URLs. For more information, you can read our article on how to migrate SEO URLs with Cart2Cart.
Step 5. Multi-store Configuration On this step, you have an opportunity to map target and source stores.
Step 6. Languages Mapping If your current Prestashop store is multilingual, Cart2Cart provides a possibility to map languages with target Magento store.
Step 7. Currencies Mapping If you use more than one currency to sell products, you will have an opportunity to map them too. If not, just skip this step.
Step 8. Orders Status Mapping In a case, you’ve chosen to transfer orders, at this point Cart2Cart gives an opportunity to match their statuses.
Step 9. Demo Migration Cart2Cart provides a great opportunity to try how everything works while absolutely free Demo Migration. On this step, you will have a possibility to check entities one more time. We advise you not to skip this stage as you will be able to evaluate an outcome. If you are satisfied with results, proceed to the next step.
Step 10. Full Migration To start Full Migration Process, ensure you have enough money on your account, double check items that have to be moved to Magento and press Start Full Migration.
You will be able to watch the process. After data transferring is finished, you will receive an email notification. Now you are able to check migration results. Thats it!