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Migrating Product Variants: How Cart2Cart Handles Product Options During Data Migration

If your target shopping cart supports advanced product options and combinations, Cart2Cart's data migration service can transform simple products from your source store into configurable product variants on your target store. This enables you to specify separate quantities, stock levels, and SKUs (or EAN, model, etc.) for each unique product combination. This ensures a seamless and accurate data migration of your product catalog, preserving the complexity and detail of your product offerings.

Supported Platforms for Product Variant Data Migration

This option to create product variants during data migration is available for the following target shopping carts:

Magento (products will be configurable), VirtueMart (option combinations become product items), X-Cart (option combinations will be product variants), Zen Cart (only if "Stock quantities by attributes" contribution is installed), BigCommerce (product variants will be created from variant options like size and color), CoreCommerce, GoldenPlanet, Kickstart, Mystore.no, Palundu, PrestaShop Cloud Api, Shop-Script, Storeden, Visualsoft, Zoey.

Understanding Product Variant Creation During Data Migration

With the "Create Product Variants" Option

The following illustrates how product variants appear in the Magento admin panel after data migration when the "create product variants" option is selected.

On the Manage Products page, you'll find a Configurable Product (Apple Cinema 30”) and individual Simple Products differentiated by color (green, red, yellow, etc.). Up to 1000 Simple Products can be created. For example, "Blue Apple cinema 30”:

On the Associated Products page, you'll see Apple Cinema 30” in various colors. A key advantage is the ability to add specific descriptions, such as adjusting weight, SKU, manufacturer, and status. This allows customers to find exactly what they need with comprehensive information.

Without the "Create Product Variants" Option

If you don't select the "Create Product Variants" option during data migration, the Manage Products page will only display a single Simple Product (Apple Cinema 30”) without any options.

On the Custom options page, you'll only be able to modify the price, price type, SKU, and sort order, as shown below:

Steps to Migrate Product Variants with Cart2Cart

To utilize the "create product variants" option during your data migration, follow these steps:

1. Register an account with Cart2Cart.
2. Start a new migration project.
3. Provide the necessary information for your source and target stores.
4. Proceed to the Entities Selection step and choose the option to "Create product variants based on the combination of options."
5. Perform the data migration.

Please note that this is an additional option and will affect the final data migration price. Be sure to factor the cost of this option into your overall budget. For further details, refer to our article: Create Product Variants with Cart2Cart.

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