Why and how to Migrate from VirtueMart to Magento

and How Why to Migrate from VirtueMart 4o Magento Shopping Carts Merchants are Migrating Away From Shopping Carts Merchants are Migrating To ośCommerce (22%) Magento 45% Zen Cart (14% PrestaShop 12% VirtueMart 1.x (10% OpenCart 8%) Most Popular eCommerce Software (Top 1M Sites), Feb 2013 Others: 7964 Magento: 9063 Shoplfy: 826 Yahool Stores: 1014 Interspire: 1106- VirtueMart: 3324 Volusion: 1168 OpenCart: 2425 Prestashop: 2998 osCommerce: 2461 Zen Cart: 2515 Hight What about Google Trends? 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 Jan 2008 Jan 2009 Jan 2010 Jan 2011 Jan 2012 Jan 2013 Interest over Time Before You Start Migration when the traffic is the lowest Choose a Time of Migration inform customers stakeholders, suppliers Let Your Customers Know Make Backups it is useful to have plan B as Magento is resource consuming Find a Hosting Install Magento Migration With Cart2Cart 1) Register Cart2Cart Account 6. Match Languages 2. 7. Setup VirtueMart as Source Cart Match Currencies Setup Magento as Target Cart 8. Match Order Statuses 4. Select Entities 9. Absolutely Free Demo Migration 5. Multi-store Configuration 10. Perform Full Migration After Migration is Performed Take Care About SEO Set 301 Redirect Create a Sitemap Use Canonical Tags and o Inform Google about Meta Robots Migration Customize Site Design Test Everything Sources: Designed by: http://tomrobertshaw.net/2013/03/feb-2013-ecommerce-survey/ http://www.practicalecommerce.com/blogs/post/968-Actual-Open-Source-eCommerce-cart- migration-stats-reveal-market-trends http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-AU#q=magento%2C%20virtuemart&cmpt=q http://www.shopping-cart-migration.com/shopping-cart-migration-scenarios http://virtuemart.net/ http://www.magentocommerce.com/ G Cart2 Cart automated shopping cart migration