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Migrating orders using Vm2Mage
January 4, 2010
With Vm2Mage various data are migrated into Magento entities (based on the complex EAV-database structure that Magento uses), but there is one main exception to this migraton: Orders. This tutorial explains you the bits about this specific part of the migration.
Migrating customers using Vm2Mage
January 4, 2010
Customer records are easily migrated by Vm2Mage from VirtueMart to Magento - including all their details (orders and addresses). However, there are a couple of things you need to know before starting off. This whitepaper deals with all customer-related topics with Vm2Mage.
Limitations of Vm2Mage
January 4, 2010
Vm2Mage tries to migrate information as best as it can from VirtueMart from Magento, but some information is just not fitting into the Magento world. This article lists the current limitations of Vm2Mage.
Installing and configuring Vm2Mage
January 4, 2010
Vm2Mage allows you to migrate from VirtueMart to Magento, and uses various extensions in both Joomla! as Magento to do so. This tutorial lays down all the steps.
Magento categories and products are not showing
January 2, 2010
There can be various reasons why your Magento categories and products are not showing. Let's start walking through all the options that make your categories and products appear on your Magento site.
Migrating products using Vm2Mage
December 16, 2009
Migrating products is easy with Vm2Mage. You just hit the Migrate button and the AJAX-process is starting to migrate batches of VirtueMart products to Magento. But a product can have dependencies. This tutorial outlines all the steps to safely migrate products.
Setting up tax-classes before Vm2Mage migrations
December 12, 2009
Before migrating products, you will need to configure all the tax-options in Magento. Within VirtueMart you will need to go to "Tax > List Tax Rates". Within Magento you will need to go to "Sales > Tax". Note that within Magento tax rules are very flexible, thus harder to configure.
Troubleshooting Delete-Any-Order
December 6, 2009
When you are using the Delete-Any-Order module, you MUST have a proper backup available. Removing orders from the Magento database while Magento itself does not offer such an option, is dangerous - especially when using third party modules.
Renaming the Magento database table prefix
December 4, 2009
During the installation of Magento you have the option to use a database prefix for your Magento tables in the database. Using such a database prefix adds to the security of your site, because generic SQL Injection attacks will be more likely to fail. But if you installed Magento using the demo-data or if you forgot about this thing during installation, you are stuck with a database without prefix. Here is the procedure to update your Magento instance with a different prefix.
