How to Convert VirtueMart to OpenCart in Some Minutes

OpenCart data migration services by ‪‎LitExtension‬ supports users to migrate Products, Customers directly from your store to OpenCart.
No third party involved.

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VirtueMart to OpenCart migration plugin is the most popular OpenCart migration tool that is developed to convert VirtueMart to OpenCart.

WHAT DATA MIGRATED FROM OLD CART TO OPENCART?

1. Products

• SKU, Product Name, Description, URL, Quantity, Stock Status, Model, Weight ...

• Base Image, Additional Images

• Base Price, Special Price

• Assign to Product Categories

• Attributes (Color, Size ...)

• Options (Size; Weight, Color ...)

• Extra Fields (Checkboxes, Dropdownlist, Radiobuttons)

• Variants: can be grouped with related variants together to form a product

• Meta Title, Meta Description, Meta Keywords

• Currencies

2. Products Categories

• URL, Name, Description, Base Image, Additional Images

3. Customers

• CustomerID, Username, First Name, Last Name, Email, DOB, Address ...

• Customer Password

• Customer Groups: Preserve relationships with their groups

4. Orders

• OrderID, Order products, Product price, Quantity, Order date, Status, Discount price

5. SEO URLs

• Migrate Products and Categories SEO URLs

• Migrate 301 SEO URLs of categories and products

6. Custom Fields

• Custom fields of Products, Categories, Customers and Orders

And other data

For Source Store & Target Store (self-hosted)

•Please ensure you have the right permission to upload files.

•It must not block access from any third party IP.

Source Store and Target Store can operate normally during migration as it requires a very limited resource for the process.

PHP Compatibility: PHP 4.x or later.

It is strongly recommended to backup Target Store first.

For Cart Migration:

Cart Migration is a web application which can be installed on Source Store or Target Store or a third party server.

•Cart Migration should be placed in a stable hosting or in localhost.

•It also must not block connection to VirtueMart to OpenCart.

PHP Compatibility: PHP 5.3 or later.

Required PHP extensions:

•pdo_mysql

•curl

Required PHP configurations:

•memory_limit no less than 128Mb

•allow_url_fopen must be On

•base64_decode should be allowed

After downloading the product zip file from our Store, please extract it into a folder. The package consists of two main parts:

• OpenCart Cart Migration Application (“cartmigration” folder)

• Connector (“cartmigration_connector” folder)

2.1 OpenCart Migration Setup

OpenCart data migration service is a web application which can be installed on VirtueMart to OpenCart.

1.Upload “cartmigration” folder to your server, make sure it can be accessed via an url. Example: http://yourserver.com/cartmigration/

2.Chmod folder app to 0777

3. Create an empty database in your server, this database will be used by Cart Migration to store migration tracking data.

4. Go to http://yourserver.com/cartmigration/ you will see the Setup page. Enter the database login information here, Click “Setup”.

5. If the entered information is not correct, you will see a warning. If everything is correct, you will see the Migration form.

2.2 Source Store and Target Store Connector Setup

• Copy and upload “cartmigration_connector” into Source Cart and Target Cart root folder. After finished please make sure Connector can be reached at: https://yourstore.com/cartmigration_connector/conn...

• Note: It is only required to upload the connector in case your Source Cart or Target Cart is self-hosted.

If you have any problem reaching the link please ensure you have htaccess configured correctly and the file has execution permission.

For 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.

Note: please do not use special characters in token or else the migration tool might fail to work, it should contain number and alphabet characters only. Example:

• Good token: 12ab34cd56

• Bad token: #Fr35h#Mi!5

OpenCart migration extension is purchased and setup separately into Cart Migration. 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:

• OpenCart SEO Urls Plugin: helps migrate Products and Categories urls. Old urls will be saved in Target OpenCart Store and will be maintained to keep all current SEO ranking you have built up for years.

• OpenCart Customer Password Plugin: special plugin which adds the ability to read passwords encrypted by VirtueMart to OpenCart. All passwords are migrated over and remains encrypted, customers can login to the new shop right away without the need of resetting passwords.

• Custom Fields Plugin: help migrate custom fields from VirtueMart to OpenCart. 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 OpenCart Store.

License Key is an encoded string which comes with your download package. This key is required to activate your VirtueMart to OpenCart Migration Tool.

4.1 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.

4.2 Go to http://yourserver.com/cartmigration/, click on Settings, and copy and paste your license key here, click Submit.

Return to http://yourserver.com/cartmigration, you are now at Step 1 of migration process.

The migration will go through 3 simple steps. Just hit “Next” when you finish one step to advance.

5.1 Source Cart Configuration

• Cart Type: select corresponding source cart type (normally it has been preselected)

• Cart Url: source cart full url (note: it should not include “cartmigration_connector/connector.php

• Cart Token: the token string which has been configured in connector.php

Target Cart Setup

Target Cart Setup should be similar to Source Cart setup. Please read the above section for details.

5.2 Migration Configuration

• Languages Mapping: If your Source Cart is multilingual, corresponding languages (or storeviews) should be available in Target Store. You may need to create additional languages in Target Store to avoid data loss.

• Currencies Mapping: Assign Source Cart currencies to proper Target Store currencies. Creating currencies in Target Store may be needed.

• Orders Status Mapping: Assign Source Store order statuses to proper OpenCart Store order statuses. Creating additional order statuses in OpenCart Store may be needed.

• Entities to Migrate: select all entities to migrate or just a part of them.

Additional Options

• 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

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.

After the migration is completed, click on “Clear Cache and ReIndex Data” to finish.