Magento

Hello to all.

Can be possible to develop some application that facilitates the migration from Oscommerce?
In the next future.

(many thanks, excuse my poor english)

UPDATE: Ups! sorry Zen Cart and CRE Loaded too!

And to add one more.....

Zen Cart

I’m sure it will happen once Magento is stabilized.  There are tons of people who want to make the move.

It will be interesting to see how a migration works because Magento does some one off stuff with their products and attributes.

As a side note....

The only only other things that would stop me from being able to migrate (once Magento is deemed stable enough for production use) are:

- ability to import product data feeds (much like the functionality that easy populate provides for Zen)

- Google base uploader

- Live Product Search uploader (although not nearly as important as Google Base)

Import product data feeds?  What do you mean by that?

Creating the feeds for Google (I’m not aware of a Product Search feed, I thought the Base feed fed both) will be very easy.  I’ve created quite a few from scratch in only a few hours of work.

Brandon - 13 September 2007 08:27 PM

Import product data feeds?  What do you mean by that?

As in feeds from suppliers. I have a bunch of different suppliers (drop shippers) that provide feeds to keep inventory updated and accurate. Need to be able to update that periodically.

The “Live Product Search” refers to live.com’s (Microsoft) product search (similar to Google’s without the traffic). 

we are working on the osCommerce migration tool, and we hope to have that done when Magento is stabilized.

Thanks

yoav

Will you work on the basis of the Cre Loaded version too since this version propose almost the same database structure except for small changes (for instance Cre loaded offers the possibility to add title, description and keywords (meta)

How advanced is now the migration tool from OSCommerce to Magento? (% of completion?)

Would it be possible to make available the script at its current state?
I’m even prepared to pay a developer to complete it… and then provide the script back to the community.

Would anyone there join me in financing the completion of the migration tool?

I want to start testing my shop and my products in Magento beta so it is ready to go live as soon as the release version is ready.

(where can I find the database structure for Magento so I can start comparing, must be somewhere but I haven’t found it yet)

If you can wait a few more weeks, the migration tool should do the trick. It won’t be ready for a few weeks.

this feature would be outstanding. please keep us updated!

RoyRubin - 06 December 2007 10:47 PM

If you can wait a few more weeks, the migration tool should do the trick. It won’t be ready for a few weeks.

What kind of information are you planning on migrating in your osCommerce mirgration tool?  I realize there are probably as many configurations for osCommerce as there are installations of it.  Are you planning on moving only products and categories or are you also planning on moving customers and order history?

Would there be any plans for moving multi-store installations as well.  I can understand the difficulty in doing this but it seems like with your multi-store implementation it should at least be possible.  I’m sure there are many people waiting on any update to this.  (the general migration tool, there probably aren’t as many looking for a multi-store migration.)

For the osCommerce migration tool we are planning on importing products, categories and customers. Order history is a bit more tricky so we are looking at having some archive order table to display old orders. These orders will not be editable in any way in Magento.

Thanks

yoav

YoavKutner - 17 December 2007 07:51 PM

For the osCommerce migration tool we are planning on importing products, categories and customers.

Would that also include their passwords?

@i960: yes, password hashes will be transferred, and they would be validated using OSCommerce password hash algorithm.

Moshe - 18 December 2007 10:15 AM

@i960: yes, password hashes will be transferred, and they would be validated using OSCommerce password hash algorithm.

Awesome!  We get a lot of repeat customers, and I really do not want to tell them all that they have to create a new password.