Escaping The Magento 1 End of Life: How to Migrate Magento to Shopify Without Losing Any Data

in magento •  4 years ago 

As you may know, Magento to Shopify migration remains the second most popular request that we receive since the announcement of the Magento 1 end of life.

Shopify is a multifunctional platform that has hundreds of useful apps helping to customize the functionality of an online store. Even e-commerce giants like Nescafe, Red Bull, and Tesla Motors are successfully operating on Shopify, and have done for many years.

Here you can get full information about Magento 1 to Shopify migration cost.

Moving from Magento: Why Choose Shopify?

In fact, there are about ten different platforms that you might be offered as alternatives to Magento 1. The big ones are Shopify, WooCommerce, Bigcommerce, Salesforce, and Magento 2.

Shopify is a SaaS platform. By choosing any of the available plans, you get reliable hosting out-of-the-box. This means you neither have to choose, maintain, and pay for hosting, nor scale it for seasonal sales peaks like the holiday season or black friday.

Perhaps this is one of the biggest advantages of a Magento to Shopify migration. Given that you have a couple hundred products in your current store and buy a high-quality Shopify theme template, you can migrate all the needed data and launch your new Shopify store within a couple of weeks.

What Tools Does the Market Offer to Migrate Data from Magento 1 to Shopify?

Currently, there are three popular data migration tools/apps that can significantly help to import products from Magento to Shopify. These are:

  1. Excelify
  2. Litextension
  3. Cart2Cart

Excelify

Excelify is a Magento to Shopify migration app. It provides a great set of tools for the migration of data from Magento (and other platforms) to Shopify. With this app, you can export and import important data, such as products, customers, orders, pages, blog posts, discounts, and all the other valuable content you undoubtedly have.

Litextension

Litextension is a complete solution for data migration from any shopping cart to Shopify. The service works in automatic mode and, upon being launched, the migration will be processed even if you turn off your computer or the internet connection is lost. The following data can be migrated using Litextension: products, product categories, orders, customers, reviews, coupons, SEO URLs, and more.

Cart2Cart

Cart2Cart – The Magento to Shopify migration tool that has been on everyone’s lips for several years already. Cart2Cart specializes in data migration between more than 80 e-commerce platforms, from 3DCart to X-Cart and Yahoo Store.

Each of the presented tools has other advantages and disadvantages, as well. But one thing is for sure – none of them can guarantee you a complete automation of the data migration stage. Either way, you will have to manually check the data for errors.

This is a brief summary of an article published on Whidegroup blog. If you want to know more details about how to migrate Magento to Shopify —read the full article

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