Upgrade PrestaShop 1.6 to 1.7 and Level Up Your Store In 2022 [Detailed Guide Included]

Upgrade PrestaShop 1.6 to 1.7 and Level Up Your Store In 2022 [Detailed Guide Included]

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An Overview 1. New Features of PrestaShop 1.7 2. Why Is PrestaShop 1.7 Better Than 1.6?

3. How to Upgrade PrestaShop 1.6 to 1.7?

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Install PrestaShop Setup Source and Target Carts Choose data and additional options Start Demo Migration Proceed to Full Migration

4. List of After-Migration Priorities

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New Features of PrestaShop 1.7 PrestaShop 1.7 was released in November 2016 with the motto "Sell faster. Code Better. Create Easier". The main idea of its creators was to make the process of the store's establishment more straightforward and user-friendly. PrestaShop has made a largescale step forward from PrestaShop 1.6 and introduced the following new features and forward-looking changes: Improved way of theme creation and maintenance (including a new default and a starter theme).

Advanced key user journeys (beginner-friendly onboarding, simple product-creation procedure, and module search).

Re-organized main menu.

Enhanced admin interface that is aimed at speeding up the most popular tasks.

Symfony framework, which helps to strengthen code security and store's performance.

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Why Is PrestaShop 1.7 Better Than 1.6?

Main improvements over the previous versions include: "Create a product" page got a new interface, faster performance, better-looking shortcuts, and improved way of adding products to the categories.

Back office navigation was redesigned entirely, which led to the improvement of the UI/UX experience and significantly easier browsing.

Improvement of the modules page contributed to the better daily management of the modules.

Prestashop has launched many new beautifully-looking themes, which can be downloaded from the Official Marketplace.

How to Upgrade PrestaShop 1.6 to 1.7?

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Upgrading PrestaShop 1.6 to 1.7 is not an easy task since there are significant differences between the oldest versions of the software. So, merchants must be ready to adapt or replace many of the addons (themes, modules). Thus, this process requires at least minimal tech skills or developer's assistance (which can be rather costly). Also, the modern ecommerce world offers business owners a worthy alternative - automated migration service (like Cart2Cart). With the help of this tool, you will be able to upgrade your store to the latest version of PrestaShop without spending much time, effort, and money.

So, if you want to upgrade PrestaShop 1.6 to 1.7, you need to:

Install PrestaShop Go to the Official Site, download and install the latest version of PrestaShop.

Setup Source and Target Carts

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Since you are upgrading your current store, please choose PrestaShop as your Source and Target carts.

Copy stores’ URLs to the corresponding fields, download Connection Bridges and upload them to the root directories.

Choose data and additional options Cart2Cart migration service helps users to transfer the following data: Products Product categories Manufacturers Taxes Customers Orders Coupons Reviews Blogs/blog posts, etc.

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Also, we recommend our clients to consider choosing the following additional options (it's not obligatory): Preserve order IDs on Target Store - allows maintaining old order IDs on a new PrestaShop store.

Create 301 redirects on your target store after migration - helps to create redirects to the new store, therefore preserving SEO. (Please note that this option requires installing an additional SEO module before the data transfer.)

Migrate customers' passwords - this option also requires an additional Cart2Cart Prestashop Passwords Migration Plugin.

Please, find the detailed installation guide here.

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Start Demo Migration Demo migration is an entirely free option that allows users to transfer a limited number of entities to a new store (upgraded version of PrestaShop). In this case, business owners will have the possibility to assess the functionality of our service and check how the upgraded version of their store will look like.

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Proceed to Full Migration

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After the completion of demo migration, we advise you to check your store, and if everything works well, its time to launch the upgrade PrestaShop 1.6 to 1.7.

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List of After-Migration Priorities Although the upgrade of PrestaShop store has been completed, we highly recommend our clients to do the following: Check whether all the data has been transferred correctly and test the performance of the store (e.g., make a few random purchases, open the store's website on different devices/ browsers, etc.)

Choose a new theme or adapt an existing one.

Install additional modules, plugins, and extensions to increase your store's functionality.

Use our Recent Data Migration Service (optionally) in case any new data has occurred on your PrestaShop 1.6 store during or after the upgrade.

Actually, this is it. Now you are equipped with knowledge on how to upgrade PrestaShop 1.6 to 1.7. And remember, it's not enough for your PrestaShop store to be up to date, you have to be up to tomorrow upgrade with our Cart2Cart service!

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Contact us

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Website: https://www.shopping-cart-migration.com/cart2cart Email: Support Department

support@shopping-cart-migration.com

Business and Partnership business@shopping-cart-migration.com

Phone:

1-800-224-1462