How to Switch from Interspire to Magento

Why and How to Switch from Interspire to Magento On the first of July 2012 Interspire announced that they won't support their shopping cart anymore. Thousands of online stores were left without any updates and bug fixes. Now merchants can switch to a hosted version of Interspire. Nonetheless, proponents of licensed platforms decide to migrate to another shopping cart and many of them choose Magento. Let's take a closer look in order to understand is Magento an alternative? 45% 26% 45% of all migrations are performed to Magento since 2008, powers over 200 000 online stores Magento's market share- over 26% Interest over Time Magento Interspire Jan 2008 Jan 2009 Jan 2010 Jan 2011 Jan 2012 Jan 2013 How can e merchants benefit from Magento? one of the most feature rich advanced marketing and SEO tools platform provides regular updates mobile commerce numerous payment and shipment options multi-store function How to migrate? 1 Prepare for migration install Magento shopping cart and make sure it is available online analyze store traffic, in order to choose a proper time for migration notify concerned people about migration make a backup in order to reinsure make sure you have store admin panel access, FTP access 2 Set up migration with Čart2Cart Create an account Provide information about Source Interspire and Target Magento carts. Install a connection bridge. Choose entties you wish to move. Match languages, currencies, order statuses. Perform Demo migration to make sure everything works correctly. Start Full migration 3. After migration is completed Take cere about SEO create custom 404 page generate stenmap, set 301 redirect Customize ste design Ask customers to recover passwords Sources Designed by: http://www.magentocommerce.com http://www.nterspire.com/ http://www.shopping-cart-migration.com/blog/44-migration-servid tips/12796-forewarned-is-foreamed-pre-migration-tips http://www.shopping-cart-migration.com/shopping-cart-migration- options/659-interspire-to-magento-migration Cart 2Cart atmuted thopprg cart migton