Migrating Magento 1.x to Magento 2.0

Magento 2.0 has been released at the end of 2015. There are more difference in file structure of Magento 1.x vs Magento 2.0, we can say that it is impossible to upgrade to 2.0 like you used in 1.x. So many store owners want to upgrade their store to Magento 2 to take full advantage of this new eCommerce platform, how will you do if you want to upgrade your Magento 1.x to 2.0?

At the end of 2015, LitExtension developed successfully an amazing tool to migrate store from Magento 1.x to Magento 2.0 called “Magento to Magento Migration Tool”. Moving to the latest version will obviously be beneficial for most Magento users. LitExtension supports migration with all Magento 1.x versions to 2.0.

• Upgrade Magento 1.4 to 2.0
• Upgrade Magento 1.5 to 2.0
• Upgrade Magento 1.6 to 2.0
• Upgrade Magento 1.7 to 2.0
• Upgrade Magento 1.8 to 2.0
• Upgrade Magento 1.9 to 2.0

Up to now, this tool helped over 1,000 store owners to get their job done within a few simple steps after 6 months from released. Now, we will show how to Migrate data from Magento 1.x to Magento 2.0 using a LitExtension migration tool.

Step 1: Source Cart Configuration

Step 2: Migration Configuration

Step 3: Migration

WHAT DATA MIGRATED

PRODUCTS

• SKU, Product Name, Description, URL*, Quantity, Stock Status, Model, Weight …
• Base Image, Additional Images
• Base Price, Special Price
• Assign to Product Categories
• Attributes (Color, Size …), Attribute Sets
• Options (Size; Weight, Color …)
• Extra Fields ( Checkboxes, Dropdownlist, Radiobuttons)
• Variants: can be grouped with related variants together to form a product
• Meta Title, Meta Description, Meta Keywords
• Currencies

CATEGORIES

• URL, Name, Description, Base Image, Additional Images

CUSTOMERS

• CustomerID, Username, First Name, Last Name, Email, DOB, Address …
• Customer Password
• Customer Groups: Preserve relationships with their groups

ORDERS

• OrderID, Order products, Product price, Quantity, Order date, Status, Discount price …

SEO URLs

• Migrate Products and Categories SEO URLs
• Migrate 301 SEO URLs of categories and products

CUSTOM FIELDS

• Custom fields of Products, Categories, Customers and Orders

REVIEWS

• Customers Name, Rating, Review, Status …

TAXES

• Tax rules, Tax rates, Product tax classes …

MANUFACTURERS

• Name, Description

MULTI-STORE

• Yes

MULTI-LANGUAGE

• Yes

Source: http://blog.litextension.com/migrating-magento-1-x-to-magento-2-0/