Leaving 1ShoppingCart & Taking My Database?

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Hey everyone,

Any have experience with migrating their data away from 1Shoppingcart and have any suggestions on the best way to do this?

I have an info product that was created years ago and it all has been run off of 1SC, so I have about 8 years worth of customer contact info (name address, phone, email, order history) that I don't want to lose.

I'm moving my product and funnel from a static html site over to being Wordpress based with OptimizePress + SamCart + possibly Aweber and I think that should cover all the same functionality I use now with 1SC except for where to house my historical sales data.

Best case scenario would be something that already integrates with my new stack.

thanks for reading
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  • Profile picture of the author AronParker
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    • Profile picture of the author manxixe
      Originally Posted by AronParker View Post

      I HATE 1Shopping cart support

      They're horrible
      amen...

      i've been putting this off for waaay too long so i'll be glad when it's all wrapped
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  • Profile picture of the author EJ Lear
    I've had to do this many times, there is a service called cart-to-cart (https://www.shopping-cart-migration.com/) which is a good bridge and not very expensive.

    I had to do a customer's site with about 300 products in it and it did a great job (it would have worked the same way with 100,000 products).

    The customer was a Magento user who never bothered to keep Magento updated, or do basic database upkeep. By the time they wanted to redesign the site they were like 5 versions behind so exporting from one version, creating a fresh install of the Cart-to-Cart exported database was the best route. They are a nationally recognized brand and I had a hard time believing how ignorant they were if we're honest, keeping up your cart version is very important as security patches are fixed along the way.

    Cart-to-Cart's service is great, you can pretty much bridge from any cart to any cart, it's a lifesaver when you need it. Make sure to create a test site, it takes 30 minutes and you can verify that everything is working good, additionally many backups along the way is wise.

    Hope this helps you out, I have no affiliation with them whatsoever. :-)

    Peace,
    EJ
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    • Profile picture of the author manxixe
      Originally Posted by EJ Lear View Post

      I've had to do this many times, there is a service called cart-to-cart (https://www.shopping-cart-migration.com/) which is a good bridge and not very expensive.

      I had to do a customer's site with about 300 products in it and it did a great job (it would have worked the same way with 100,000 products).

      The customer was a Magento user who never bothered to keep Magento updated, or do basic database upkeep. By the time they wanted to redesign the site they were like 5 versions behind so exporting from one version, creating a fresh install of the Cart-to-Cart exported database was the best route. They are a nationally recognized brand and I had a hard time believing how ignorant they were if we're honest, keeping up your cart version is very important as security patches are fixed along the way.

      Cart-to-Cart's service is great, you can pretty much bridge from any cart to any cart, it's a lifesaver when you need it. Make sure to create a test site, it takes 30 minutes and you can verify that everything is working good, additionally many backups along the way is wise.

      Hope this helps you out, I have no affiliation with them whatsoever. :-)

      Peace,
      EJ
      Hi EJ,

      thanks for the suggestion and tip.

      I did run across cart-to-cart while doing some searching around and their service does look pretty slick.

      I think my challenge is going to be that I'm not necessarily trying to move from one cart to another cart (only have 5 products in the 1SC setup) - more focused on just moving the contacts and order history into a platform that plays nice with my new stack.

      The reason I went with 1SC way back when was because having everything all in one platform was really convenient (CRM + email broacasts + autoresponders + payment processing + product DB) but now it's a hot mess to untangle each piece and migrate each into a correct new home.

      I also buzzed a question to the support folks at samcart about bringing historical data/orders into their system and they said they don't have an option for that.


      thanks again!
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