Monday 30 November 2015

8 Essential Steps to Migrating Your Product Data to Magento

When your business was on a small scale, it is possible that you managed with the solution that was inexpensive and enthusiastically available. As your business has grown now, it has become essential to upgrade your platform. Magento is the best eCommerce platform which is trusted by the world’s major brands.

The main reason of business owners why they postponement switching to a new platform is the fear of Data Migration Process. Sometimes Data Migration from an existing platform to Magento store becomes very unwieldy and time consuming.

Here are main eight essential steps to migrating data from an existing shopping cart platform to Magento:

Step 1: Export all product data from existing store
Step 2: Make sure you are using an Excel file.
Step 3: Eradicate unwanted columns and data fields
Step 4: Be ensure all product data formatted appropriately
Step 5: Arrange fields according to the settings of Magento
Step 6: Append new fields
Step 7: Format all information accurately
Step 8: Import all data in .CSV file format by using import feature of Magento

Step 1: Export Data
Your first step is to get all product data from the existing platform. Export tool will help to set down all product data into a file. You can remove information that is not useful in your new instance.

Step 2: Excel File
Make sure the data should be in excel file. If the data export is in .xml file format, then you need to change it into in excel file.

Step 3: Eradicate unwanted data fields
Remove all the redundant columns and data fields that will not be used in your import to Magento.

Step 4: Cleaning Data
This step will help you to reduce errors and save your time.  To clean data, remove duplicate values by using Excel’s Remove Duplicate Command. Also, use Excel’s TRIM and CLEAN functions to remove extra spaces.

Step 5: Arrange Fields
You need to rearrange product information in your data import so that it can be congregate the requirements of Magento.

Step 6: Append Fields
You can add new fields to your Excel file based on your findings.

Step 7: Format Product Information
Product Data imported into Magento must be in .csv format always. If we are using an Excel file, we need to convert that file into a .csv file.

Step 8: Import Data
Upload the complete .CSV file using import feature in Magento. It will take 1-2 hours in importing 200-300 products on an average base. After completing importing product data, a manual confirmation is required to ensure that all products have successfully imported into Magento.

These steps will surely help you in migrating your product data to Magento. But if you don’t have time then you can outsource this process to Switch2eCom and manage entire cycle cost-effectively.

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