LitExtension can help you migrate data fields which originally do not exist in your old or new platform core. These fields are important as it allows you to specify additional information of your products or pages.
Custom fields are not default parts in your platform’s database. They are created through a plugin or module built by the platform’s developers or other plugin providers. They can also be created by directly modifying your database. You use custom fields to specify additional information of your products or pages. In the migration process, LitExtension defines custom field slightly different than normal. They are:
Custom fields are the fields which originally do not exist in your platform core. They are created through a plugin or module built by the platform’s developers or other plugin providers. They can also be created by directly modifying your database. You use custom fields to specify additional information of your products or pages.
To check whether your store has custom fields, you can:
During the data migration to Shopify, all product sizes (length, width, height) and ean, as well as attributes, which are not included in variants creation, will be migrated in MetaFields by the default.
After migrating product attributes from your Source Store to Shopify, you’ll need to install a free Metafields Guru plugin to create, update and delete metafields for products (variants included), both smart and custom collections, customers, orders (draft orders included), blogs, pages and the shop directly from the admin panel of your Shopify store. Otherwise, metafields won’t be displayed and editable in the admin panel.
Follow the instructions below to understand how it works:
Unfortunately, due to Shopify Shopping Cart peculiarities, custom fields cannot be transferred to this platform.
However, if you are planning to migrate custom fields on your Source Cart to another powerful platform which is not a hosted platform, watch this video to see how you can perform it with LitExtension accurately and effortlessly!
LitExtension supports migration the custom fields to WooCommerce. However, WooCommerce doesn’t display Custom fields by default. To enable this option you have to:
echo ‘<table class=”shop_attributes”><tbody>’;
foreach(get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true) as $key => $attr) {
if(strpos($key, “_”) !== 0) {
echo ‘<th>’.$key.'</th>’;
echo ‘<td>’.array_shift($attr).'</td>’;
echo ‘</tr>’;
}
}
echo ‘</tbody></table>’;
Firstly, the pricing is good compared to other migration apps. The most important opinion I would to offer as this review is that the support is very good. Rarely does anything run smoothly, so having the right support is crucial. Very good value for money.
Migrating from Zen-cart to a more modern platform is no easy task, so while there were a couple of things that didn't shift well at the start, they were more than happy to promptly provide a fix without delay. Very happy with their work and follow up.
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