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Shopify to OpenCart: WHAT IS BETTER?

15 October 2016 - 04:18 AM

OPENCART vs SHOPIFY

Selecting the most suitable e-commerce platform for shaping, operating and maintaining an e-commerce website is critically important, as it can be the factor responsible success or failure of the website. Opencart is free, simple to setup and modify and if your willing to get your hands dirty can do just about anything you wish for. Shopify is an ecommerce platform which follows SAAS business model. This business model makes it easy for first time entrepreneurs to venture into ecommerce without spending much upfront. Online business can follow the detailed comparison between OpenCart and Shopify to choose the best solution for your site.

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Shopify

 

Advantages of Shopify
- Shopify currently is the leading online solution provider for e-commerce sites globally.
- Shopify provides a ready-to-use hosted solution.
- It has a theme store where well designed and responsive themes can be found.
- It is a SaaS based pay-as-you-go e-commerce website solution that allows you to setup online store within hours. 
- It has all of the basic features which any small business may need.

 

Disadvantage of Shopify
- There are too few free themes in the Shopify extension store.
- There is only one free text field per product, so adding separate tabs on a product page isn't possible. It to make it possible, great efforts have to be put in.
- By default, Shopify provides a basic search functionality that does very little to assist the user, again to overcome this issue, developer needs to put in extra attempt.

 

OpenCart

Advantages of OpenCart
- Many out of the box features are available for free.
- ability of working with multiple languages and currencies.
- Open Cart has a lot of plugins and extensions, which can provide with nearly any functionality you want. 
- It is free and open-source, so it easy to implement any desired custom feature.

Disadvantages of OpenCart
- Not very easy to customize, and might be constricting for some businesses.
- Caching is not provided by Open Cart, and must be added using an extension for improving performance.

If you want to choose OpenCart for online business, OpenCart migration tool is suggested for you to migrate data from old cart and start with OpenCart shopping cart. Shopify to OpenCart migration extension is a popular automated tool for e-merchants.

On the other hand, you feel Shopify is the best choice with your case about technical knowledge and cost. Let's check Shopify migration tool with OpenCart to Shopify migration extension of LitExtension.

MAKE A RIGHT CHOICE NOW!


Transfer WooCommerce to OpenCart 2016

25 July 2016 - 04:57 AM

OpenCart database migration extension is developed to move WooCommerce to OpenCart quickly and safely. Web developers and store owners can set up WooCommerce to OpenCart migration easily and wait to move products, customers, orders automatically.

 

How to export WooCommerce to OpenCart with LitExtension automated shopping cart migration tool:  http://litextension....migration.html 

 

Here is an inforgraphic to show an overview about this OpenCart migration tool, you can see about which data transfer WooCommerce to OpenCart, how this plugin sets up and run.

 

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About WooCommerce to OpenCart migration tool,
- No third party involved in migration process
- Test with free opencart migration demo web 
- Be easy to set up woocommerce to opencart migration plugin 
- Automated way

 

 

 


Import products from VirtueMart to OpenCart 2016

18 July 2016 - 09:19 AM

Virtuemart to OpenCart Migration Plugin is popular hopping Cart Migration Solution. It allows you to migrate all your products, categories, orders, customers, passwords, SEO URLs and other data from Virtuemart to OpenCart within 3 simple steps.
 
OpenCart migration tool is free of charge, but full migration is paid for unlimited usage and its price starts from $69.
 
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VirtueMart to OpenCart import supports OpenCart versions: 1.5.0, 1.5.0.1, 1.5.0.2, 1.5.0.3, 1.5.0.4, 1.5.0.5, 1.5.1, 1.5.1.1, 1.5.1.2, 1.5.1.3, 1.5.2, 1.5.2.1, 1.5.3, 1.5.3.1, 1.5.4, 1.5.4.1, 1.5.5, 1.5.5.1, 1.5.6, 1.5.6.1, 1.5.6.2, 1.5.6.3, 1.5.6.4, 2.0.0.0, 2.0.1.0, 2.0.1.1, 2.0.2.0, 2.0.3.1, 2.1.0.1, 2.1.0.2, 2.2.0.0
 
WHAT DATA MIGRATED FROM VIRTUEMART 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
 
7. Reviews
• Customers Name, Rating, Review, Status ...
 
8. Taxes
• Tax rules, Tax rates, Product tax classes ...
 
9. Manufactures
• Name, Description
 
10.Multi-Store
 
11. Multi-Language
 
 
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
 
• Preserve IDs: Preserve Order IDs, Customer IDs on the OpenCart
 
• Re-Migration: Unlimited re-migrations with NO extra cost
 
• Migrate Recent Data: You have just finished a full migration, after that Virtuemart is still live and continue getting new data, and you want to get your OpenCart updated with the new data, this feature to avoid starting over again.
 
• Clear Data Before Migration: Allow deleting current data (products, customers, orders, etc.) from the OpenCart before migration
 
• Data Security: Direct data transfer from Virtuemart to OpenCart, NO third party involved
 
• Free Installation
 

 


Which is the best solution to change to woocommerce with high data security?

14 January 2016 - 03:19 AM

I manage an online store on bigcommerce site. Now I want to change my site to woocommerce. Can you show me the best way to migrate database with high data security?