How to migrate

VIRTUEMART TO OPENCART
Using LITEXTENSION tool

 Shopping cart migration tool by LitExtension help web developers

and online business owner transfer data from cart to cart
successfully
VirtueMart to OpenCart migration tool: http://goo.gl/GmYJVi
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Which data migrated?

Product

Tax

Customer

Review

SEO URL
Order

Custom field
Customer password

How is it?
Free installation

30 days money back

1 year support

Lifetime update

24h fast support

1 time purchase
unlimited usage

How it works?

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PROCESS
Migration

Setup

Preparation

STEP 1

STEP 2

Plugin Setup

Enter License
Key

STEP 3

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STEP 4

STEP 5

1. Preparation
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.

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1. Preparation
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

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2. Setup
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)

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2. Setup
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:

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

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2. Setup
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:
http(s)://yourstore.com/cartmigration_connector/connector.php

Note: It is only required to upload the connector in case your Source

Cart or Target Cart is self-hosted.

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2. Setup
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

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3. Plugins Setup
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.

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3. Plugins Setup

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.

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4. Enter License Key

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.

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4. Enter License Key

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

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5. Migration
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.

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5. Migration
5.1 Step 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

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

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5. Migration
5.2 Step 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.

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5. Migration
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.

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Additional Options

Migrate recent data: if you choose this option, it will migrate new
data only. Supposed you have just finished a full migration from your
current Source store to OpenCart store, after that OpenCart store is
still live and continue getting new data, and you want to get your
OpenCart store updated with the new data, select this feature to
avoid starting over again.

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 OpenCart Store,
allowing you to maintain your Pagerank.
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Additional Options
Transfer images in product descriptions to Target Store: download
all images in product description into your store so that it wont
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

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5. Migration
5.3 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.
After
the
migration
is
completed, click on Clear
Cache and ReIndex Data to
finish.

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