OpenCart to PrestaShop Migration

Choose Your OpenCart to PrestaShop Migration Method

Start with the data your business needs in PrestaShop and compare each method against that scope. A product file alone does not transfer the full catalog, customer accounts, historical orders, discounts, reviews, and relationships together.

PrestaShop’s native importer changes its available fields by entity. Its manual file-mapping workflow is separate from LitExtension Automated Migration. Choose the method that fits the records and relationships you need, rather than assuming a catalog import completes the entire move.

Prepare Both Stores and Define Scope

Back up the OpenCart database, files, and important assets. Record counts for selected entities and retain representative examples: products with attributes and options, sale prices, customer accounts, orders with different statuses, coupon restrictions, reviews, and translated records.

Prepare PrestaShop and identify existing products, customers, and orders that must remain. Save a target backup before enabling Clear Target Data. Keep a record of custom OpenCart extensions and describe any data they generate before starting.

If PrestaShop uses multistore, identify the intended shop and review associations, customer sharing, and module configuration. Target multistore support does not automatically establish migration of every OpenCart storefront, store assignment, or shared-customer rule.

Prepare the PrestaShop theme, modules, payments, carriers, tax configuration, notifications, and checkout separately. Data migration does not convert OpenCart extension code or storefront design into their PrestaShop equivalents.

Connect OpenCart and PrestaShop

Sign in to the LitExtension app and create a migration. Select OpenCart as Source Cart and PrestaShop as Target Cart. Enter the required store details and follow the connection instructions for your installed versions.

Complete the connector setup displayed for each store and keep required access available through transfer and validation. If a connection check fails, review the details and source/target setup, then share the error with support. Do not substitute native CSV-import instructions for the app’s connection workflow.

Select Products and Categories

Products include names, SKUs, short/full descriptions, status, manufacturer, tax class, regular/special prices, quantities, stock-management settings, meta titles/descriptions, weight, dimensions, tags, attributes, thumbnail images, and additional images.

Attributes remain a parent group without promises for every detailed subfield. OpenCart Option is not assumed equivalent to PrestaShop Variants or combinations. Describe selectable products, price modifiers, required text inputs, and extension-managed options before planning their target behavior.

Categories include names, descriptions, sort order, images, and meta descriptions. Category meta titles and meta keywords are not in the shared scope. Review category organization and product assignments in the Demo, then configure navigation separately.

Select Customers and Test Login

Customers include first names, last names, emails, billing addresses, passwords, usernames, status, creation dates, and display names. Customer Groups is not listed for profile migration, even though coupon customer-group fields are supported separately.

For cross-platform password migration, use LitExtension’s Customer Password Migration plugin on the PrestaShop target and follow its setup instructions. It is installed on the target rather than the source. Test migrated login with a representative account before launch and keep the plugin active according to the guidance.

Check names, emails, billing addresses, status, and account access in the Demo. Retain a password-recovery plan for customer support and resolve login issues before inviting customers to use the new store.

Select Historical Orders, Manufacturers, and Taxes

Orders include IDs, dates, statuses, items, subtotal, discount, tax, shipping price, total price, comments, customer names/emails, and billing/shipping addresses. Order Items and addresses remain parent groups without added detail-field promises.

Select Preserve Order IDs when staff need original OpenCart references. Compare representative totals, statuses, comments, addresses, and customer relationships. Order tags, transactions, invoices, and tracking fields are outside this shared scope.

Manufacturers include names, slugs, descriptions, and images. Taxes include tax-class names and tax rates with country/rate information. Check tax records and product tax assignments, then test the configured target tax behavior; migrated records do not establish every country-specific tax or checkout setting.

Select Coupons, Reviews, Pages, and Languages

Coupons include descriptions, codes, coupon dates, customer groups, per-coupon/per-customer limits, discount amounts/percentages, and start/end dates. Coupon titles, status, and creation dates are outside this scope. Test eligibility and discount calculation on representative carts before launch.

Reviews include creation dates, status, ratings, reviewer names/emails, and comments. Review titles and separate product-code/name fields are not included. Check how transferred reviews appear in the target storefront and prepare any display module needed for your setup.

CMS-page fields include titles, creation dates, URLs, descriptions, categories, and thumbnails. A Description field does not establish transfer of page-body Content. Retain original text and prepare required policy and information content separately.

Multiple Languages includes product names/descriptions/attributes and category names/descriptions. Translated CMS pages and blogs are outside this scope. Prepare the target languages and review representative translated records. Blog migration is not included.

Configure Additional Options

Create 301 Redirects connects old OpenCart URLs with corresponding PrestaShop destinations. Preserve Order IDs retains original order references. Strip HTML Tags removes markup from product and category names. Review each option separately before the Demo.

Description Images transfers embedded images in supported product and category descriptions. Check these separately from catalog images and page thumbnails. The option does not add blog or CMS-body migration.

Clear Target Data removes existing records for selected migration entities. Save a target backup and identify records that must remain before enabling it. Shopify Smart Collections is not applicable to PrestaShop; prepare target categories and navigation instead.

Review the Demo and Run Full Migration

Run a Free Demo and compare sample PrestaShop records with OpenCart. Inspect descriptions, prices, stock, attributes, images, category sorting, manufacturer records, customer login, orders, taxes, coupons, reviews, page fields, and translations.

Matching counts alone do not establish correctness. Save source and target examples for discrepancies and resolve them before Full Migration. Once started, the transfer runs on LitExtension’s servers, so you can close the browser and return to check progress.

OpenCart can continue accepting orders during transfer. Validate completed records and relationships, then test product selection, account access, coupon eligibility, payments, carriers, taxes, notifications, and checkout on desktop and mobile.

Prepare URLs, Final Updates, and Launch

Review migrated metadata and page URLs, test important old links and redirects, update internal links, and check target navigation. Original product/category URL keys are not listed; redirects do not guarantee unchanged rankings. Review any custom SEO extensions separately.

Track new and changed OpenCart records during migration. Recent Migration transfers new records, Smart Update handles changes to existing data, and Re-migration reruns the transfer. These services are free for 60 days; review final updates before directing customers to PrestaShop. They do not create continuous synchronization.

Estimate Cost and Timing

Cost and timing depend on selected data volume, options, images, connections, and agreed custom work. Allow time for preparation, Demo feedback, Full Migration, validation, password testing, and launch checks.

Use Estimate Migration Cost for an initial estimate. If you want specialists to manage the project, Schedule a Call to discuss All-in-One Migration.