bricksnmortar Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Hi All, I've got a bunch of sites in CS Cart which I need to migrate across to Presta. Seemed like Cart2Cart is the dominant player and so started with their service. The standard package migration did a very poor job so I wrote to them to ask what next. They said 10 hours of work (around $500) and I asked if it gets cheaper if I do multiple sites with them, but no. So I bought the package on Oct 2 and its still not done. It takes them about a week each time they ask a question to look at it again. And I have had to point out the same issues on several occasions which then costs another week. Maybe its language difficulties, maybe they're busy. I needed to get this done a month ago and I'm getting hammered at work for missing the deadline by so far because I'd said with 10 hours work it should take under a week. My bad. Are there any alternative services that people have used for migrating? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancarp Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 I have been in the programming software business for 40+ yrs and am currently researching the differences in cart databases to do these kind of conversions. What kind of volume are you looking at per store? I just chatted with cart2cart today and find them eager to sign you up, but really expensive in what they do. Obviously you have found them to be really slow as well. What I do is take the old database and update the new cart database with the data via csv or spreadsheet-like processing. General things like customers, orders, categories/products are relatively easy. From what I understand, c2c does this bull work and the rest is up to you. If you are interested, let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuk66 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 I have had best results with custom import scripts, because PrestaShop does many things covertly and there is no usable database reference. So SQL to SQL approach doesn't work without really deep database undestanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bricksnmortar Posted November 16, 2014 Author Share Posted November 16, 2014 Just found these guys http://www.migrashop.com/ but they don't do CSCart and these do magento/presta http://profprojects.com/migrate-magento-to-prestashop/ http://www.presto-changeo.com/en/prestashop-migration-modules/115-magento-to-prestashop-migration.html and Chris at Logicalit.com.au will do the custom type import into Presta from almost anything As I find others I will post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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