Migrating Magento to NopCommerce

We currently have our site running on Magneto version 1.4.0.1 and are shifting to NopCommerce for various reasons.  Currently, our site catalog has approximately 3500 products.  Before we spend hours recreating each product, does anyone have any suggestions on how to export/import the product titles, attributes, descriptions (short and long), price, sku, and image?

Honestly I think we have found a way to export the product details into excel and then re-organize them to follow the Nop DB structure, but the images are the thing that seem to be the hiccup. When you upload images into Nop from the product pages, it creates a binary URL string in the DB which when the product loads in the browser, it pulls from the cache.  Nop really does not store the actual file on the server so I am not sure how to import images in bulk.  Hope I made myself clear enough to get some assistance.

Thanks.

Welcome to nopCommerce forums. That's great that you have decided to use nopCommerce, I am sure you will like it :)

You can change the settings for image storage from database to filesystem.

Go to Administration > Configuration > Settings > Media Settings

CHANGE the settings for "Pictures are stored into.." from using database.

You can do a DTS package in MSSQL to import from Magento DB (I assume mySQL or some sort) to nop.

And as described above, nop uses images in file system. Or in my case, create a CDN handler and forget above file system. I would not have choose / use nop if it was handling images in db.

natek wrote:
May I ask why are you migrating from Magento to Nop?

HI,

I am also interesting why.

You can check out if there is a plugin to load those images. I have seen also some posts on them about creating a simple importer for images and for products also.

J.

I am using nopadmin to export import products, attributes, images, sku etc... from desktop. It seems pretty easy and faster then using website.

To address the reasons for the move FROM Magento for our company really comes down to a few things. First of all, we run a Window's environment and prefer to host the sites in house on our own servers.  Second, from what we have tested, there really is not much that Magento does that Nop can't do currently.  Plus it seems to run faster during our initial launch of one of our sites compared to Magento. Third, .NET is a stronger programming language in house for us.

We did want to utilize the multi store function but it just is not set up properly for how we want to utilize it.  In our situation, we need to have multiple products with the same sku OR the ability to create different categories/titles/prices/descriptions on a per site basis.  Currently Nop will allow you to map products to multiple stores but if we have different content for each store, there is no real good solution without heavy modification to the source code.

Don't get me wrong, Nop still has some issues. But the interface and the functionality is there for 90% of eCommerce stores.  We are a B to B operation so we are not quite like most others out there.

Hmmm, the multistore functionality you mention sounds possible:

1. Categories can be limited to stores so you can essentially setup a different category tree for each store/site and assign the product to the categories for each store (and also limit the product visibility on a per store basis if required).
2. Titles/Descriptions.  You can setup as many languages as you like so you could have 5 different versions of English for instance and set each store to only display the appropriate language for your content version.
3. Pricing.  Not 100% sure on this one but some creative use of tier prices assigned to customer roles should be able to cater for most situations.  Then have each store automatically assign the role to new users.

You might have other considerations outside those you mention that mean you can't achieve what you need (or it might just be too messy for your liking) but it sounds possible.

petemitch wrote:
Tier prices can also be assigned per store

I am also interested in migrating to Nop.  is there an easy way for me to import customers and products, and their associated purchase history?  We don't have a ton of customers, nor a ton of sales; however, we'd hate to lose that history.  Thank you in advance!