OpenCart to Woo Migration

In a few clicks, migrate your Opencart products, orders and customers to your WooCommerce store.

Setup and Installation

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Installation:

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  • Download OpenCart Migration for WooCommerce and have your .zip file
  • At the WordPress admin panel, go to the Plugins section, and click ‘Add New’ to upload and install the plugin you just downloaded from WooCommerce.
  • Upload the .zip file to proceed with the installation.
  • Wait until the plugin installs. After successful installation, activate the plugin, and move on to configuration settings.

Configuration:

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At the WooCommerce admin panel go to WooCommerce > Settings > OpenCart to Woo for configuration. Here you will find the Six tabs: API Settings, Product Import Settings, Orders Import Settings, Customers Import Settings, Run Import, and Import Status.

API Settings:

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In this section, you can configure the API settings. These include:

  • Opencart Store URL: Enter your open cart store address
  • Opencart database host: Enter your database host address
  • Opencart store database name: Enter the open cart store database name
  • Opencart store database username: Enter the open cart store database username
  • Opencart store database password: Enter the open cart store database password.
  • Opencart database prefix: add open cart database prefix.
  • Enable email notification: send an email when the import is completed.
  • Import completion notice email: If not provided, by default email will be send to admin email.
  • Connection status: Opencart store connection message.

Product Import Settings:

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  • Import all opencart products to woocommerce: Import all open cart products to woocommerce store.
  • Update existing products: checkbox to update product, if already exist.
  • Filter product by specific title: Enter specific product titles if you want to import products based on their titles.
  • Max product to import: Input the maximum number of products that you want to import.
  • Filter products by specific category IDs: Filter products based on their specific category IDs. Use comma-separated values for multiple categories e.g. 1,3,5,8,9.
  • Filter products after specific product ID: Enter a specific product ID to filter all products after that specific ID.
  • Filter products published after specific date: Select the date to filter all the products that are published after the selected date.
  • Filter products published before specific date: Choose the date to filter products published before that date.
  • Product status for newly imported products: Select the status of the newly imported products. You can select:
  • Published
  • Draft
  • Same as opencart

Note: Product options will not be imported along with products.

Order Import Settings:

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  • Import all opencart orders to WooCommerce: Click the checkbox to import all orders from Opencart to WooCommerce.
  • Update existing orders: Enable the checkbox to update existing orders if any.
  • Filter orders after specific ID: Enter a specific ID and get all orders that are created after that particular order ID.
  • Max orders to import: Add the maximum number of orders that can be imported.
  • Filter orders created after specific date: Enter a date to get all the orders after that specific date.
  • Filter orders created before specific date: Select a date to import all the orders that were created before that specific date.
  • Filter orders by specific order status: Enter the Import order status
  • Order status mapping: check the mapping status of each order in Opencart and WooCommerce. You can select the status of each WooCommerce order as:
  • Pending Payment
  • Processing
  • On Hold
  • Completed
  • Canceled
  • Refunded
  • Failed

Customers Import Settings:

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  • Import all opencart customers to WooCommerce: Enable the checkbox to import all customers from Opencart to WooCommerce.
  • Update existing customers: Update existing customers if any. If you do not want to import all customers, uncheck the box and configure the following settings.
  • Filter customers created after specific date: Select a date to filter customers created after that particular date.
  • Max customers to import: Enter the maximum number of customers that can be imported.
  • Filter customers of specific IDs: Filter customers based on their IDs. Use comma-separated values for multiple customer IDs e.g 1,2,3.
  • Filter customers having specific group id: Enter group ID to get all customers of that specific group ID.
  • Filter customers having specific first name: Input specific first names to import all customers having that first name.
  • Filter customers having specific last name: Enter last name to get all customers with that specific last name.
  • Filter customers having specific emails: Enter email addresses to filter customers based on their email address. Use comma-separated values for multiple emails e.g abc@gmail.com,xyz@gmil.com.

Note: User’s passwords will not be imported as OpenCart APIs do not provide password data for security reasons.

Run Import:

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In the run import tab, you can manage the import of all products, customers, and orders.

  • Import All Data to WooCommerce: Click the checkbox to import all the data including products, orders, and customers from OpenCart to WooCommerce according to the import settings you have configured previously.
  • Import Option: Choose options to import data from OpenCart to WooCommerce. When “Import All Data to WooCommerce” is checked all data will be imported. When unchecked, you can select:
  • Import Only products
  • Import Only Orders
  • Import Only Customers

Import Status:

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In this tab, you can check the status of all running imports.

  • Products Import Status: Check the status of product imports.
  • Order Import Status: Import status of all orders.
  • Customers Import Status: Status of all customer imports.
  • You can cancel all the running imports by clicking the “Cancel All Running Imports” button.