LitExtension Demo Migration: Everything You Need To Know

For 12+ years of development, LitExtension – #1 Shopping Cart Migration Expert has focused on only one thing: delivering the most pleasant re-platforming experience possible. Being the go-to of thousands of store owners and agencies needing data migration, we know that no one wants to make a sight-unseen transaction. Therefore, at LitExtension, we provide you with Demo Migration so that you can better visualize the migration process before making a purchase.

In this article, LitExtension will walk you through everything you need to know about our Demo Migration:

• What Is Demo Migration?
• Why Run LitExtension Demo Migration?
• Highlights of LitExtension Demo Migration
• How to Perform Demo Migration with LitExtension?

Let's get this show on the road!

Highlights of LitExtension Demo Migration

Here are important things you need to know about our Demo Migration:

• LitExtension Demo Migration is 100% free. You don’t have to worry about any fees while running our free service.
• You can easily try a migration with LitExtension even without having a Target Store. We will provide you with the LitExtension test stores to try Demo Migration.
• A maximum of 20 entities for each data type (orders, customers, products) can be directly transferred from your Source Cart to the Target Cart. This means you can get a total of 60 entities with our Demo Migration!
• Your data on the LitExtension free test stores will automatically be deleted after 3 days.
• LitExtension trial migration might take you 10-20 minutes to perform the whole process.
• You can check the Demo Migration result before officially launching the Full Migration.

What is Demo Migration?

As the world-leading shopping cart migration expert, LitExtension can transfer all your data such as products, customers, and orders automatically, securely, and accurately with no technical skills required.

On LitExtension's home page, we offer Free Demo Migration for every customer. With our Demo option, you can rerun the trial migration as many times as you need.

Demo Migration is a process when you experience how our actual migration service works with a limited number of items. In other words, it is actually a “reduced” version of full data migration.

Right after running the Demo Migration, you can check the result on your Target Cart and evaluate the effectiveness, security and accuracy of our service before officially performing the Full Migration.

Why Run LitExtension Demo Migration?

With a small amount of time and effort to put in, you will enormously benefit from the Free Demo Migration.

It is worth running our demo option because you will beneficially:

• Get the idea of our service and system
• Ensure the process is exactly what you expect from the tool
• Have us solve any problems that arise before the full migration. 
• Know that the migration is well worth your investment.

Now that you have understood what Demo Migration is and why you should use this functionality, let us walk you through the highlights of LitExtension Demo Migration.

How to Perform Demo Migration with LitExtension?

To illustrate how our Demo Migration is set up and performed, let’s suppose you are using a Magento platform and want to switch to Shopify. Below are steps to migrate data from Magento to Shopify in Demo:

Step #1: Registration

First, click LitExtension Site, you will be led to a registration page.

If you already have an account, you just need to fill your email and password to login right here.

Otherwise, you can easily sign up with your email, or your own Facebook or Google account.

After you login to the migration page, please click Create Migration. Then you will see the next step of the migration process.

Step #2: Source Cart and Target Cart Setup

Currently, LitExtension supports the largest eCommerce collection with more than 200 platforms. We are trusted by big brands such as Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, OpenCart, PrestaShop, etc. Therefore, you can easily choose to migrate from your current platform to another one.

At Source Cart Setup, click the drop-down list then choose Magento and provide its URL.

Next, download LitExtension Connector, you will receive a zip file, extract it, and paste it into your Cart Root Folder by FTP/SSH protocol.

Afterward, go back to your migration page, an automated message will appear on the screen to inform you have successfully installed the connector without manual checking.

In case you need more help with this part, we have prepared a detailed guide How to Install Connector File for you to follow.

Now, let's scroll down to Target Cart Setup, choose Shopify as your Target Cart Type.

On the right side of the page, you will see our step-by-step instructions. Follow it and you will finish this setup process by clicking the button “Next: Configure your Migration“.

Step #3: Entities Selection and Files Uploading

In this step, select the entities you want to migrate. You can click “Select All” to select all Products, Customers and Orders, or only tick the necessary categories you want.

LitExtension also provides a number of Additional Options, such as 301 Redirects and SEO URLs Migration, to enhance your data import functionality. In other words, these features assist you in resolving major issues that typically arise after a migration.

Also, you can map your Order Status or Languages right on this step so that they will be displayed correspondingly on the Shopify site. You can select Order Status on Shopify to fit your needs – either exactly the same or in a different way as in Magento’s store.

Whatever variant you choose, you can control how your orders will be migrated to avoid any confusion after the migration.

Step #4: Free Demo Migration

At the end of the page, click “Next: Start Free Demo Migration”

Now LitExtension will start your demo migration with the chosen entities. The process might take you some minutes to finish.

You will see the same steps as the actual migration. However you can skip this step by clicking Skip demo Migration to immediately move forward to Full Migration.

Step #5: Result Checking

You can check the result done by the Demo Migration process before officially making the Full Migration. Our version can also check the total entities you have on your current Source type and calculate the price for your Full Migration.

That’s all about the demo process which can be carried out by yourselves. Technical knowledge and skills are not necessary if you work with LitExtension Shopping Cart Migration service.

If you're satisfied with our service after running our Demo Migration, you can choose from 2 tremendously ideal options which are:

• Basic Migration, with which you can migrate data yourself with our migration tool.
• All-in-One Migration, in which our experts take care of the process from top to bottom.

LitExtension Demo Migration – FAQs

Wrap Up

Demo Migration is crucial for you to understand how LitExtension will transfer your data from cart to cart. Having spent a few minutes with the detailed instructions of trial migration, you can make inroads into moving from your current platform to the new one with LitExtension.

Hopefully, this article has given you enough guidance to perform successfully LitExtension Demo Migration. Please bear in mind that you can perform several Demo migrations with any cart types you like until you are sure about our Full Migration service.

Our experts are 24/7 available to answer any questions you may have along the way. So, don’t hesitate to Contact Us via Support Ticket, Live Chat or Phone Call if you need further information or support.

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