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Migrate From Magento GO to Magento CE
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Migrating from Magento Go to Magento Community Edition
You’ve probably already heard the news about Magento Go closing down. The official date that the platform will be closed down is 1st February 2015.It should be worth remembering that Magento itself has two offerings: Magento Community and Magento Enterprise. Since Magento Go merchants are quite familiar with operating a Magento store, it is quite logical that many should choose to move to the Community or Enterprise editions of Magento, rather than learn a new platform, such as BigCommerce.
Migrating to Magento CE
For clients looking to stay on the Magento platform, and are also looking for power and flexibility, you might be tempted by Magento Community – and rightly so! You are already familiar with running a Magento-based shop, so why would you want to learn how to use a completely new piece of software. With Magento CE you’ll be able to focus on rebuilding your store instead.
There are a number of things to remember when you’re looking to move your site from Go to Community, some of which can get quite technical and that’s why we recommend that you work with a company such as Media Idee so we can take the headache out of the transition.
Here’s an overview of difference in services you will receive over the Magento Go Platform.
Support: Phone, Mail, Live support is available to you now at a more personal level than you had with GO.
Managed Backend and Product Uploads: The biggest time and resource crunch for Magento is hiring people to just upload your products, ensure your uptime, uploading new campaign banners and so forth. We can easily take the hassle of managing your store off your shoulders and provide timely and quality support and integration services. We also provide marketing services which ensures that the only thing you have to do is relax and concentrate on what you do best.
PCI Compliant, Optimised, Magento tuned hosting done by the Media Idee team based on our years of experience serving global clients and multi-store brands.
Bigger, Better, More Branded Solutions: There was no way to generate a proper branded store under Magento GO. Only pre-determined themes and extensions could be used, and these were very limited plus limited Java script support. No access to your code was given either. However, with Community CE you will have access to the code-base and can make bigger and better changes and should you choose us, you can create a brand in the mind of your customers.
Connected to your Partners. Our services can connect to your existing distributors, fulfillment and logistical partners and suggest new ones e.g. for email marketing services, programmatic buying, analytics and reports on a whole different level such as with Heat Maps, Scroll Maps, Engagement and customer journeys.
Anything Go did, Community can do and it can definitely do it a lot more as well a lot faster. It’s fast, scalable and secure. Whilst this shows a small demo of how the platforms services will differ, of course, migrating your content and domain name are also big parts of the process of migration. Migrating with Media Idee as your partner means that that you won’t lose any content due to the data being re-mapped or ‘lost in translation’.
If you would like to discuss how Media Idee can smooth your transition from Magento Go to Magento Community, then please contact us at corporate@midigital.co or connect to us at (UK): +44-20-32901438 or (US): +1-603-842-2536. You may also fill out the contact form here and we’ll be in touch within 24 hours.
Magento has emerged as the dominant platform for those interested in e-commerce. The opportunities it provides in terms of customization and optimization are nearly unlimited and it allows you to quickly build an effective and scalable business operation. Magento is state of the art software that includes the most modern ecommerce features available at the moment. There are no barriers for migration to Magento platform from any software you use. The complete list of what is possible is below:
MAGENTO MANAGEMENT FEATURES
Select and Control Information to Share Across Multiple Online Stores From a Single Admin Area
Assign Roles and Permissions Across Users
Web Services API for easy integration between Magento and any third-party application
Custom Website Design and Styling
Manage Online Customer Groups
Integrated Content Management System (CMS) for Creating and Managing Informational Pages
Google Website Optimizer Integration for A/B and Multivariate Testing
CHECKOUT, PAYMENT & SHIPPING
One-Page Online Checkout
Integrated for Real-Time Shipping Rates from UPS®, FedEx®, and USPS®
Option on Credit Card Transactions to Authorize and Charge or Authorize Only and Charge on Creation of Invoices
Integrated with Amazon Payments, PayPal, Authorize.net, and Google Checkout
Ability to Accept Checks, Money Order, and Online Purchase Orders
SSL Security Support for All Online Order and Sensitive Transactions
Online Tax and Shipping Calculation and Prior to Checkout Estimates
Option to Create Account as Part of Online Checkout Process
Gift Message Management
Configurable Saved Cart Expiration
Multiple Shipping Address Management
Online Order Tracking from Customer Account
Ability to Manage Multiple Shipments on a Single Online Order
Destination Country Management
Per Order and Per Item Flat Rate Shipping Option
Free Shipping Functionality
Manage Shipping by Weight and Destination
SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION (SEO)
Light Footprint Design for Fast Load Time and Search Engine Optimization
Google Site Map Creation and Site Map Auto Generation
Search Engine Friendly URL’s Including URL ReWrite Controls
META Information Management at Product and Category Levels
Auto-Generated Popular Search Terms Page
ANALYTICS AND REPORTING
Integration with Google Analytics and more advanced analytic systems such as RJMetrics, KISSMetrics, ClickTale, iPerceptions and more.
Admin Report Dashboard with Business Overview
Sales Reports Including Total Sales and Returns
Tax Reports
Abandoned Shopping Cart Reports
Best Viewed Products Reports
Top Sold Products Report
Low Stock Item Report
Onsite Search Terms Report
Product Reviews Report with RSS Support
Tags Report with RSS Support
Coupon Usage Report
MARKETING PROMOTIONS AND TOOLS
Online Poll Creation and Management
Newsletter Management
Landing Page Creation Tools
Catalog Promotional Pricing and Controls
Flexible Coupons Rule and Pricing Restrictions
Free Shipping Promotion Management
Multi-Tier Pricing for Volume Discounts
Bundled Products Options
Customer Group Pricing
Recently Viewed Products
New Items Promotional Tool
On Page and In Shopping Cart Upsells and Cross Sells
Send to a Friend and Wishlist Management
Order Management
View, edit, create and fulfill orders from admin panel
Create one or multiple invoices, shipments and credit memos per order to allow for split fulfillment
Print invoices and packing slips
Call Center (phone) order creation − Includes ability to create new customer, or select existing customer and view shopping cart, wishlist, last ordered items, and compared products list, as well as select addresses, give discounts and assign custom prices
Create re-orders for customers from administration panel
Email Notifications of Orders
RSS feed of New Orders
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Contact Us form
Feature-rich Customer Accounts
Order History with Status Updates
Order Tracking from Account
Password Reset email from front-end and admin panel
Order and Account Update Emails
Customizable Order Emails
Create and Edit Orders from the Admin Panel
CUSTOMER ACCOUNTS
Order status and history
Re-orders from account
Recently ordered items
Address Book with unlimited addresses
Default Billing and Shipping addresses
Wishlist with ability to add comments
Email or Send RSS feed of Wishlist
Newsletter Subscription management
Product Reviews submitted
Product Tags submitted
CATALOG MANAGEMENT
Inventory Management with Backordered items, Minimum and Maximum quantities
Batch Import and Export of catalog
Batch Updates to products in admin panel
Google Base Integration
Simple, Configurable (e.g. size, color, etc.), Bundled and Grouped Products
Virtual Products
Downloadable/Digital Products
Customer Personalized Products – upload text for embroidery, monogramming, etc.
Tax Rates per location, customer group and product type
Attribute Sets for quick product creation of different item types
Create Store-specific attributes on the fly
Media Manager with automatic image resizing and watermarking
Advanced Pricing Rules and support for Special Prices (see marketing tools)
Search Results rewrites and redirects
Approve, Edit and Delete Product Tags
Approve, Edit and Delete Product Reviews
RSS feed for Low Inventory Alerts Customer Personalized Products – Upload text for embroidery, monogramming, etc. (this one is already there, but want to have the following shown after it)
Customer Personalized Products – Upload Image
Customer Personalized Products – Select Date/Time options for products
Customer Sorting – Define Attributes for Customer
Sorting on category (price, brand, etc.)
PRODUCT BROWSING
Multiple Images Per Product
Product Image Zoom-in Capability
Product Reviews
Related Products
Stock Availability
Multi-Tier Pricing Upsell
Product Option Selection
Grouped Products View
Add to Wishlist
Send to a Friend with Email
CATALOG BROWSING
Layered / Faceted Navigation for filtering of products in categories
Layered / Faceted Navigation for filtering of products in search results
Flat Catalog Module for Improved Performance with large catalogs
Static Block tool to create category landing pages
Ability to assign designs on category and product level (unique design per product/category)
Configurable search with auto-suggested terms
Recently viewed products
Product comparisons
Recently compared products
Cross-sells, Up-sells and Related Items
Popular Search Terms Cloud
Filter by Product Tags
Product Reviews
Product listing in grid or list format
Breadcrumbs
Talk to us about migrating your store today.
We can also help you in:
Migration from Zen-Cart/osCommerce to Magento
Migration from CS-Cart/X-Cart to Magento
Migration from Virtuemart to Magento
Migration from Volusion to Magento
Migration from Prestashop to Magento
Migration from Opencart to Magento
Migration from legacy custom shopping carts (PHP or ASP) to Magento platform
