Magento takes place of honor in eCommerce industry, becoming a legend in top 10 best eCommerce platforms for good reason. There are little who can deny that Magento is one of the most comprehensive, feature-packed eCommerce solution with compelling features. Thanks to continual fixes ( that are vital for business performance!), Magento is one that proves the saying of no limits to perfection.

Good example as a proof of statement above may be recently applied fixes that significantly improve the service performance. Do you agree?

Under this I mean braintree hosted fields including full page caching that extremely boosts page loading ( to be more precise, up to 50%!).

Also, I cannot but say about improved management interfaces transforming tough, day-to-day administration activities into painless experience.

What cannot be left unnoticed is advanced PayPal in-context check-out that reduces the rates of engine abandonment meanwhile boosts conversion rates.

We can count beneficial features endlessly addressing many thanks to its developers and contributors. However, when it comes to switch itself, it`s not a secret that Magneto upgrade procedure is a very tricky task. What's more, with Magento 2.0 release everything got even worse. Due to an introduction of platform’s new modernized architecture, upgrade in its traditional way is impossible. The only way to perform it is to migrate the data from one Magento store to another.


All in all, there are 3 possible ways to do so:


  • You can perform the switch via Magneto Web Setup Wizard
  • Make the update from command or terminal line
  • Let it take care an automated migration tool


No doubts that the last option is the easiest and most reliable one. Now, it`s crucial to find and pick up the most trustworthy solution among hundreds of choices in ambitious eCommerce world. However, no obstucle is ever insurmountable, yes?

There is one secure, fully automated solution called Cart2Cart. Thanks to its fast switch speed, you`re able to get a full-scale data migration in couple of hours.

One more huge plus is that the transition procedure doesn`t require from you tech expertise, preventing you from tedious manual data export and import, data loss or relations breakdown.

No worries about existing store performance, the service offers 100% current store uptime.

What data can I import from Magento 1.8 to 2.0:

Products, product images, product extra fields, etc.
Categories, category images
Customers, customer shipping address, customer billing address, customer groups
Orders, order statuses, order products
Manufacturers, manufacturer images
Other: reviews, coupon codes, taxes, reward points

What`s more, there is a Free Demo for Magento 1.8 to 2.0 in case you desire to evaluate the results before the full switch or just see how the service works in action.

One more beneficial thing is 24/7 support that is very friendly and responsive round-the-clock.

Hope, it was helpful!

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