AmeriCommerce to Magento Migration Tool allows you to migrate Products, Orders, Customers, Passwords and Other Data automatically.
Check it out: http://litextension.com/shopping-cart-migration/americommerce-to-magento.html
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How to migrate data from AmeriCommerce to Magento by LitExtension
1. HOW TO MIGRATE DATA
AMERICOMMERCE TO MAGENTO
USING LITEXTENSION TOOL
2. If you are looking for quick, easy way to migrate data from
your AmeriCommerce to Magento, Magento Migration
Modules allows you to migrate products, categories,
attributes, customers, password, orders and other data from
AmeriCommerce to Magento.
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Migration Tool Module: http://litextension.com/shopping-cart-
migration/americommerce-to-magento.html
3. 1. Preparation
For Source Store:
Please ensure you have the right permission to upload files into your Source Store
It must not block access from Target Store to the connector.
Source Store can operate normally during migration as it requires a very limited resource for
the process.
For Target Store:
Target Store should be placed in a stable hosting or in local host.
It also must not block connection to Source Store.
Webserver (mostly apache) should have full permission to write on /media folder.
PHP Compatibility: PHP 5.3 or later.
Magento Compatibility: 1.9 or later
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4. 2. Setup
After downloading the product zip file from our Store, please extract it into a folder.
The module consists of two main parts: Magento Data Migration Module
(“leCartMigration” folder) and Source Cart Connector (“magento_connector” folder)
2.1 Magento Data Migration Module Setup
Magento Data Migration Module is a Magento Module which acts like a hub at
Magento side to receive data and import it into Magento database. It can be installed
just like all other Magento Modules:
Using your FTP software, place the folder in your Magento /modules folder.
Go to Back Office >> Modules.
Locate the new module in the list, scrolling down if necessary.
In the row for the new module, click Install.
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5. 2.2 Source Cart Connector Setup
Extract “magento_connector” into Source Cart root folder. After finished please
make sure Migration Connector can be reached at:
http(s)://yourstore.com/magento_connector/connector.php
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You will get a message “Connector Installed” once it is installed properly.
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');
7. 3. Plugins Setup
Custom Fields Plugin: help migrate custom fields from Source Store to
Target Magento Store. 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 Magento Store.
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Products and Categories SEO Urls Plugin: help
migrate Products and Categories urls. Old urls will
be saved in Target Magento Store and will be
maintained to keep all current SEO ranking you
have built up for years.
8. Customer Password Plugin: special
plugin which adds the ability to read
passwords encrypted by Source Stores to
Magento. All passwords are migrated
over and remains encrypted, customers
can login to the new shop right away
without the need of resetting passwords.
AmeriCommerce to Magento migration
tool natively supports migrating
passwords and does not need this plugin.
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9. 4. Enter License Key
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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10. 4.2. Login your Magento Target
Store backend, select Cart
Migration > Configuration, and
copy and paste your license key
here:
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13. Root Category: the category of Magento store to import all source cart categories into.
Languages Mapping: If your Source Cart is multilingual, corresponding languages (or
storeviews) should be available in Target Magento Store. You may need to create
additional languages in Magento Store to avoid data loss.
Currencies Mapping: Assign Source Cart currencies to proper Target Magento Store
currencies. Creating currencies in Target Magento Store may be needed.
Orders Status Mapping: Assign Source Cart order statuses to proper Target Magento
Store order statuses. Creating additional order statuses in Target Magento Store may be
needed.
Entities to Migrate: select all entities to migrate or just a part of them
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14. Additional Options:
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 SEO urls of
source will be preserved in Target Magento Store, allowing you to maintain your page rank.
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.
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16. 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.
Information shows in this step:
1. Source cart: source cart base URL you have entered in Step 1, this url will be
registered with your license.
2. Entity limit: the limit associated with your license. To change this value, you need
to upgrade/purchase another license code.
3. Tips slider: handle tips you should know
4. Migration progress: show current progress
5. Console: show debug information.
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17. After the migration is completed, click on “Clear Cache and Re-build
Index” to finish. If you don’t want to run it right here or it returns false for
any reason, you can do that manually in
"Advanced Parameters > Performance > Clear Cache" and
"Preferences > Search > Re-build the entire index"
Advanced Parameters > Performance > Clear Cache
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