Vm2Mage
Troubleshooting Vm2Mage image migrations
When migrating VirtueMart products to Magento, Vm2Mage also offers the ability to migrate product-images. Because this involves more than just a simple data-transfer, you could run into problems. This document helps you through the neccessary steps to troubleshoot this.
Read more...Tune migration performance with Vm2Mage
Magento is a complex product, and this complexity comes with a downside: On a non-optimized hosting environment Magento can be quite slow. This whitepaper discusses options on how to optimize things so that the Vm2Mage migration goes as fast as possible.
Read more...Installing and configuring Vm2Mage
Vm2Mage allows you to migrate from VirtueMart to Magento, and uses various extensions in both Joomla! as Magento to do so. This tutorial lays down all the steps.
Read more...Vm2Mage FAQ: Installation
The following FAQ contains questions and answers on installing and configuring Vm2Mage.
Read more...Reviewing your Vm2Mage migration strategy
Before migrating VirtueMart data to Magento, you need to think things over. Vm2Mage is like a swiss-army knife. Migration is easy, but you need to understand how this migration works and how you should use Vm2Mage for your specific situation. This can be done by setting up a migration strategy.
Read more...Migrating products using Vm2Mage
Migrating products is easy with Vm2Mage. You just hit the Migrate button and the AJAX-process is starting to migrate batches of VirtueMart products to Magento. But a product can have dependencies. This tutorial outlines all the steps to safely migrate products.
Read more...Migrating orders using Vm2Mage
With Vm2Mage various data are migrated into Magento entities (based on the complex EAV-database structure that Magento uses), but there is one main exception to this migraton: Orders. This tutorial explains you the bits about this specific part of the migration.
Read more...Migrating customers using Vm2Mage
Customer records are easily migrated by Vm2Mage from VirtueMart to Magento - including all their details (orders and addresses). However, there are a couple of things you need to know before starting off. This whitepaper deals with all customer-related topics with Vm2Mage.
Read more...Limitations of Vm2Mage
Vm2Mage tries to migrate information as best as it can from VirtueMart from Magento, but some information is just not fitting into the Magento world. This article lists the current limitations of Vm2Mage.
Read more...Vm2Mage FAQ: Troubleshooting
The following FAQ contains questions and answers on Vm2Mage troubleshooting.
Read more...Setting up tax-classes before Vm2Mage migrations
Before migrating products, you will need to configure all the tax-options in Magento. Within VirtueMart you will need to go to "Tax > List Tax Rates". Within Magento you will need to go to "Sales > Tax". Note that within Magento tax rules are very flexible, thus harder to configure.
Read more...Cleaning up Magento entries
With Vm2Mage you can safely migrate VirtueMart-data to Magento. But if you want to start all over again, deleting all products, categories and customers manually is a boring task. This whitepaper shows you how to use a bunch of SQL-commands to reach the same effect.
Read more...Upgrading Vm2Mage
Vm2Mage is an ongoing project. As more VirtueMart sites are migrated to Magento, more work will be put into new features or bugfixes of the Vm2Mage extensions. If you encounter a bug, first upgrade to the latest available version. This tutorial shows you how to do that.
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