OpenCart to VTEX Migration

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Decided to switch eCommerce platforms from OpenCart to VTEX?

Migrating a digital commerce store onto another platform is a huge undertaking that Optimum7’s programming engineers can assist you in, with the help of our automated processes. Within weeks, we can transfer all of your product and sales-related data onto VTEX’s platform error-free. By creating a duplicate store, we’re able to capture the source database that will act as the original representation of your OpenCart store and migrate all of your data onto your new VTEX platform. This process will not disrupt your current operations. The front end of your eCommerce store will look exactly the same and your customers won’t notice the difference. Also, the back end of your operations will run smoothly. You’ll still be able to process online orders.

Optimum7 also has the capabilities to enhance your new VTEX eCommerce store with customized functionalities that will improve the shoppers’ buying experience ultimately resulting in an easier and faster checkout and increased revenue.

OpenCart

It is lightweight
It has simple user interface and thus comparatively easy to learn and manage
Unlike others, it has more number of inbuilt shipping and payment methods
It has free modules and themes
Opencart Development cost is comparatively cheaper than others
Opencart consume less server resources and it’s easy to maintain

Not suitable for large scale businesses. (Over 750K annually)
Don’t provide large number of fancy features
Since it is easy to learn, low quality and vulnerable modules are available on Internet.
Cache management is not available out of the box
It’s decent for smaller businesses but not scalable

VTEX

Scalable. Your eCommerce operations will never outgrow your platform. VTEX has the capacity to adjust to your business needs
99% of the functionalities all built into the system. VTEX’s platform allows you to easily implement functionalities.
Fully customizable with any new functionality or add-on.
Highest level of PCI Compliance. Increase your online sales with a secure hosting provider that’s compliant with data security standards.
Social logins and “no password” checkout. VTEX makes it easier.
High conversions.

Suitable for businesses that do over 1 million annually
You have to generate a substantial amount of online sales to truly benefit from VTEX
Onboarding takes 30-45 days
In a little over a month, you can start to take advantage of all of VTEX benefits
Fee structure is percentage of sales

Supported Data

Migrate all of your product images, descriptions, product attributes, SKUs products and variants such as weight, pricing, along with the manufacturer’s information onto VTEX. Other sales-related information such as the quantity and price can all be migrated from OpenCart to VTEX
Two important SEO attributes that are critical to any eCommerce website are the meta-title and description. Equally as important are the categories description and category images. These are all inclusive within the migration process.
You’ll also be able to migrate invoices and with it, customer contact information gaining valuable data to analyze demographics to target the right pool of potential buyers. Along with the customers’ name, email address, telephone number, and company name, you’ll be able to acquire the order date, order status, product price, quantity ordered, tax price, shipping price, and order comments. Retain all of your current and past promotions. Any information that’s related to gift cards, coupon codes, Coupon from Date or Coupon to Date, Uses Per Coupon, Uses Per Customer along with the type of discount, the discount amount, and the amount spent can all be migrated to VTEX.
All of the information that’s related to products reviews will be migrated over to the VTEX platform. Fields such as Created Date, Rate, User name, Comment, Product, and Title are all part of the migration process.
Migrate your 301 redirects during the eCommerce migration to avoid loss of or decrease in organic traffic. Re-organize your inventory to a proper parent/child listing by bulk editing your category names and descriptions without HTML tags. You’ll also be able to add custom functionalities that will improve shoppers’ buying experience. Do all of this and safeguard your product images URLs. For blog posts, migrate the category descriptions along with all of the images and product descriptions related to each post.

What kind of data can be migrated from OpenCart to VTEX?

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How It Works

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Marketing

Switching platforms or websites might be potentially risky for your search engine rankings. Most marketing experts are very cautious while working on these migration projects.

With thousands of product pages on your VTEX site, these migrations must be executed carefully. If the migration is done incorrectly, it can result in multiple 404 error pages. These 404 pages could cause you to lose your rankings and authority within days and destroy years of hard work.

Our specialists have compiled a list of critical data you’ll need to migrate from the OpenCart platform to VTEX. With the guidance of our advanced execution, you can safely migrate your store to a new and improved platform while retaining all the SEO ranking authority you’ve built up over the years. We know all the technical details of VTEX server settings to implement 301 redirects the correct way. (Htaccess, apache, admin settings etc.)

Optimum7 staff is very well versed in VTEX PPC (Paid Search), VTEX SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Amazon, Ebay, Jet, Walmart, Shopping Comparison Engines, Inventory Management Systems, CRMs and all levels of integration.

We have already migrated more than 2,000 eCommerce stores!

Questions?

We can help you determine which functionality is best for Shopify, Bigcommerce, Volusion, VTEX, Magento, 3d Cart, Wordpress / WooCommerce, Opencart, Episerver, Oracle ATG and any Custom Cart.

Contact us today with any additional questions you may have about our functionalities.

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Why migrate with Optimum7?

Optimum7 provides a fully automated migration that doesn’t require any programming skills on your part. Through our services, you’re guaranteed to achieve an effortless and successful switch, free from bothersome bugs and glitches. You’ll have a newly established store that will provide the transformation you’re looking for with everything in tact.

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