First of all, let’s make sure you are familiar with the following terms:
Product variant - differentiation of the product in properties, such as colour, size, style, model, brand.
Product attribute - additional field containing product qualities which influence product prices.
Attribute value - a specific quality or quantity assigned to an attribute, such as size, style, color, material and other.
Creating product variants can be time consuming as it can have peculiarities depending on shopping cart type. If you are migrating to a new platform you are not familiar enough with its functionality. You will have to search for the instruction to create product variants properly. However, using Cart2Cart you can avoid these issues. The service will automatically create product variants based on attribute values. For example, the product of your store is T-Shirt. It has the attributes Model, Material, Size, Color and Brand. Each attribute has its value, for example color - blue, white, green; size - large, medium, small, etc. So, one of the product variants created based on attribute values will be men’s cotton large blue Polo T-Shirt.
Using the option of creating product variants on target store automatically will provide you with the following benefits:
Additional options are not required and are chosen on customer’s demand. Not all of the additional options are available for all supported shopping carts so you should check the availability on the shopping cart page first. The option Create product variants based on the combination of attribute values is currently available only for Magento, VirtueMart, X-Cart and Zen Cart. However, Cart2Cart constantly extends functionality and new migration opportunities will be available in the nearest future.
Take into consideration the following peculiarities of the option for each shopping cart:
Also, note that these options are charged additionally. So, you should add the cost of additional option to the price for migration to know the sum you have to fund your account with.
Be sure that Cart2Cart will help you get more out of shopping cart migration, automating the data transfer and giving additional opportunities of product management.