Vm2Mage offers you a clean migration-tool to migrate your webshop from VirtueMart to MagentoTM. The tool is easy to use and still allows you to migrate your products.
Upcoming features
At the moment, Vm2Mage is fully functional when it comes to migrating customers, products and categories. as beta. The software is completely functional in that regard. But not all parts of VirtueMart will be migrated - we will work on those new features continuously. Check out our roadmap for more information.
Features
- Migration of categories: Parent- and child-categories
- Migration of products: Product images, pricing rules, Configurable Products
- Migration of customers: Customer details, address details, password reset
- Migration of orders through a seperate tab "Older orders"
- Two extensions: One in Joomla!TM, one in Magento
- Proven technologies: AJAX, XML-RPC
- Flexibility: Filter which objects to migrate first
- Low cost: If you don't need support, it's only a small fee
- Tested on sites with 100.000+ users and 10.000+ products
Audience
Migrating data from VirtueMart to Magento is part of a bigger process: A new Magento site also requires a proper theme, a revision of strategy, marketing effort, perhaps CMS-capabilities. Therefor we advise Vm2Mage to people who want to make real use of Magento.
Vm2Mage is a flexible tool ment for Magento sitebuilders, webdesigners and webdevelopers. If you want to migrate from VirtueMart to Magento, this extension is a real time-saver!
Product comparison
| Feature | Vm2Mage Standard | Vm2Mage Professional | Vm2Mage Install |
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| Price | 20 Euro | 145 Euro | 295 Euro |
| Migrations | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
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About support
Support is only guaranteed for customers of the Vm2Mage Professional version or the Vm2Mage Install Service through the dedicated Vm2Mage Professional Forum. All support on the Vm2Mage Open Forum is offered "as is". All usage of Vm2Mage is at your own risk.
License
Everybody gets full access to the source code of Vm2Mage by downloading the Vm2Mage packages. SVN access to the development tree is only available to Yireo Partners.
Vm2Mage consists of two parts: The Magento extension is released under the Yireo EULA, which means the source is copyright protected. The Joomla! extension is licensed under the GNU General Public License, hower this does not mean "free beer". Public access to the source code is only available through Subversion in unpackaged form.
Minimum requirements
- Joomla! 1.5.7 or newer
- VirtueMart 1.1.2 or newer
- Magento CE 1.3, Magento CE 1.4, Magento EE 1.6, Magento EE 1.7
- PHP version 5.2.8 or higher
Want to migrate your CMS too?
Why should you? If your VirtueMart webshop makes heavy use of the nice and cool features of Joomla, why not keep the CMS and migrate the VirtueMart shop only. Using our MageBridgeTM extension you can integrate Magento into Joomla and thus replace VirtueMart in a clean way.
Current version
The current version of Vm2Mage is version 0.6.
Connecting Joomla! and Magento
Using the Yireo extension MageBridge you can integrate Magento into Joomla!. This saves you the time of developing a fresh new Magento theme. Also, if you migrate from VirtueMart to Magento stand-alone, all encrypted passwords are lost. With MageBridge, you can migrate without a password-reset.
- Setting up tax-classes before Vm2Mage migrations
- Migrating products using Vm2Mage
- Installing and configuring Vm2Mage
- Reviewing your migration strategy
- Upgrading Vm2Mage
- Migrating orders using Vm2Mage
- Migrating customers using Vm2Mage
- Limitations of Vm2Mage
- Cleaning up Magento entries
- Vm2Mage FAQ: Troubleshooting
- Vm2Mage FAQ: Installation
If you need any help, please use the forum.
Help us with your feedback, by adding a review in the Joomla! Extensions Directory.
Connecting Joomla! and Magento
Using the Yireo extension MageBridge you can integrate Magento into Joomla!. This saves you the time of developing a fresh new Magento theme. Also, if you migrate from VirtueMart to Magento stand-alone, all encrypted passwords are lost. With MageBridge, you can migrate without a password-reset.

