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Hello and welcome to a new CS-Cart video tutorial. In this video I'm going to guide you through
the Store Import process and show you how it works.
Say you have a shop running on CS-Cart 3.0.6. Everything's nice and proper, and...
Here comes CS-Cart 4, with some new features, one of them being...
Right, Store Import. Obviously, you'd like to upgrade.
Because, well, that's progress. As a matter of fact, it's rather easy to do.
What you're gonna need is your primary, currently working store—let's call it the primary
store, and a clean, freshly-installed on the same
machine as your primary store, CS-Cart 4—that'll be the new store. Now, what we are going to do is import all
the data from my primary store—3.0.6 Ultimate—into the new CS-Cart 4, so that I could use
and benefit from its cool features. First things first, since Store Import works
as an add-on, log in to the admin panel of your new CS-Cart store and go to Add-ons→Manage
Add-ons. Scroll down and find the Store Import add-on.
Click instal. Seeing the notice, go to add-ons and click
Store Import. Now, enter a full path to the directory of
your primary store. In my case, the path is the following:
Please note that the primary and the new store must be installed on the same host.
Click Validate. Double-check if everything is correct.
If all is good, click Import Data. Sit back and wait until your data is imported.
Depending on the amount of it, it might take either a couple of minutes, or a couple of hours.
As you can see, the inital data import is successfully completed.
Everything I had in CS-Cart 4 by default has been deleted and replaced with the data from my
primary store. The peculiar thing about Store Import is that
it doesn't transfer your store's design. So, on this step, you can leave this page
and customize the look of your future store according to your needs, or reproduce your
primary store's design. You can spend unlimited amount of time doing this.
Your primary store will still work, receive orders, and sell normally.
Pay attention to the text on this page: first of all, if you're an Ultimate user like me,
prior to proceeding to customizing your store, you have to change the Storefront URLs to
the new ones, because now they are bound to the primary store, and the error in the URLs may cause problems.
Besides, you won't be able to customize your new store.
Also, you have to go to the Languages section and set the correct Country value for each
language. This will enable your new store to work properly.
I'm going to switch to the theme editor built in CS-Cart 4, which you can find under Design→Themes in your admin panel,
and reproduce the design of my primary store to use it in the new one now. Well, almost nailed it.
Let's return to Store Import now and proceed directly to the next step by clicking this
button. On this step, you can actualize data since
the latest import. If your primary store is alive, up, and
running, you may need to actualize data. Actualizing data allows you to update your
store since the initial data import.
Actualizing data and Store Import are pretty much the same.
You can actualize data as many times as is necessary.
Let's click Actualize data. Having actualized data, you will see this
notice. Now, I'm ready to complete my Store Import.
Well, that's pretty much it. Now my CS-Cart 4 looks very much like
my primary store, both in- and outside. I'm now ready to go live and sell happily.
Well, that's it for today. We'll be happy to answer any questions you
might have in the comments section below, on Facebook, and Twitter.
Thanks for watching!