CS-Cart to OpenCart Migration

Merchants typically move from CS-Cart to OpenCart to reduce licensing costs, since OpenCart is free and open-source while CS-Cart carries a subscription fee. OpenCart also has a large, active community and a wide extension marketplace, which gives you more flexibility to customize your store without paying for built-in enterprise features you may not need.

LitExtension has three pricing tiers for CS-Cart to OpenCart migrations, based on your store’s size and how much hands-on support you want:

• Stores with under 100 products, orders, and customers qualify for the Freemium Migration Package, which is completely free.
• The Automated Migration Tool is priced from $59 for merchants who prefer to run the transfer themselves, with the final cost depending on your total data volume.
• The All-In-One Migration Service starts at $169 and covers everything end-to-end: technical consultation, data mapping, a demo run, the full migration, post-migration testing, and up to 60 days of support afterward.

For a precise quote tailored to your store, use the Pricing Estimator on this page or get in touch with a LitExtension Support Agent.

The final quote for your CS-Cart to OpenCart migration depends on a few things:

• How much data your store holds overall.
• Whether your setup includes custom fields, non-standard attributes, or unique business rules that need extra mapping work.
• Which migration method you go with (Automated Tool vs full-service AIO) and whether you add any optional extras.

Timelines for the CS-Cart to OpenCart migration vary by store size and how much customization is involved, but most transfers wrap up somewhere between a few hours and a few days. A small, simply structured store can often finish the same day, while a larger catalog with heavily customized products or configurations needs more time for proper mapping and validation.

Once the transfer is done:

• Double-check your migrated products, customers, and orders for accuracy.
• Point your domain/DNS to your new OpenCart store to go live.
• Run a full checkout, payment, and shipping test before opening back up to customers.
• Redirect your old CS-Cart URLs so search rankings carry over.
• Reach out during LitExtension’s post-migration support window if anything needs fixing.

Not if you plan for it. LitExtension can help preserve your CS-Cart SEO URLs and set up redirects to their OpenCart equivalents, so your existing search rankings and backlinks stay protected after the migration. That said, it’s a good idea to confirm your redirect setup and resubmit your sitemap to Google Search Console once the new OpenCart store goes live.

No. Your CS-Cart store stays active and fully functional throughout the entire migration process. LitExtension runs the transfer on secure cloud servers, so you can keep accepting orders and serving customers as usual while your data moves to OpenCart.

Yes. You can select exactly which entities you want to transfer, rather than migrating your entire store at once. This is useful if you only want to move certain data types first, or if you’re testing the process with a smaller subset before running the full migration.

No, you cannot transfer themes and plugins. A CS-Cart to OpenCart migration only transfers your store’s essential data, not its design or custom code. You’ll need to set up your OpenCart theme and install any extensions separately, so your new store looks and functions the way you want from launch.

If the migration stops unexpectedly due to a server issue, network disruption, or another cause, LitExtension resumes from the last completed point instead of starting over. This keeps the process reliable even if something goes wrong mid-transfer.

No, you don’t need to be tech-savvy to migrate from CS-Cart to OpenCart with LitExtension. Our Automated Migration Tool is built for merchants without a technical background. You connect both stores, select your data, and run the transfer through a simple dashboard; no PHP or database knowledge required. If your setup is more complex, the All-In-One service puts the technical work in the hands of LitExtension’s experts instead.

Every transfer runs over HTTPS with 128-bit SSL encryption, and your data goes directly from CS-Cart to OpenCart without being stored on LitExtension’s servers along the way. LitExtension also operates under GDPR compliance and puts a Non-Disclosure Agreement in place before your migration order begins.