Magento to X-Cart skin migration
 

We have two clients, both currently on Magento, which we are planning on moving to over to X-Cart. We are looking for someone to handle the transition of the current designs to X-Cart 4.4 by Sept 1. The visual layout of the sites needs to stay the same, but we do have some flexability with object layout within each page template.

Please PM me if this is something you can handle and I can send the URLs to existing sites for you to look at so you can give a solid and fair quote.

Re: Magento to X-Cart skin migration
 

If I were you I would never use a beta product for a live store. 4.4 is supposed to release officially by the end of August but if your development is done in the beta, QT usually does not supply patches for converting the beta to official release. This may throw a bit of a wrench into your deadline.

Re: Magento to X-Cart skin migration
 

Agree, 4.3.2 should be used for a live store until the end of August at least - you never want to use the first release of a new branch either, there are ALWAYS bugs.

Re: Magento to X-Cart skin migration
 

We have a very good experience in both x-cart (5 years) & magento (2 years) shopping carts. You can find more at www.mercuryminds.com/portfolio.php

Recently, we migrated a system (dot net based) to magento (60K customers, 38K products, 120K orders) with multi store option. Similarly, we have migrated a system (dot net based) to x-cart (80K customers, 22K products, 150K orders). These two sites will give an idea the capability to handle & how good we are in understanding the database structures well. Please note that while migration we took care of the statistics too.

We can definitely perform this migration (design changes), data migration if needed. Please email me your contact details to sales@mercuryminds.com.

sent you a PM.

Re: Magento to X-Cart skin migration
 

I understand bringing a site over to a new branch is not the optimum place to start, but we like to live on the edge abit... We've already discussed this with our client and they are aware of both the potential issues and new features. They are looking forward to several of the new features and really don't want to back-port some of the new modules to work on 4.3.x (if that is even allowed). We've also have both 4.4 and 4.3.2 test sites setup for comparison and mapping differences between both the code and SQL. We've already started documenting the bugs in 4.4 and posting them to the bug tracker.

We love dealing with the code, the data and the business processes... It's the touchy-feelly, design stuff that we hate dealing with and would rather hand that work off to someone who likes it... And of course, this is not our first rodeo as we have done sites from Comersus on windows to CRE Loaded on Linux to WebSphere CommerceSuite on AIX.

Just my opinion, your mileage may vary.