Migrate products from PrestaShop to VirtueMart

by Click2Sync

1. Log in with your Click2Sync account here

If you don't have a Click2Sync account create one here

2. Connect your Prestashop instance

To start synchronizing your products, click on the button "add storefront"

Upon click you will see different options from where to retrieve your product information. Click on "Prestashop"

A pop-up will appear where you have to fill the information about your Prestashop instance.

  1. URL of your Prestashop
  2. Webservice Key (The next steps describe how to obtain it)

To obtain a Prestashop Webservice Key, first go to your Prestashops' Adminsitrator Panel and select "Advanced Parameters" and then "Webservice"

Click on "Add new WebService Key"

  1. Press the "Generate" button to create a new key
  2. Make sure to click the first checkbox on the columns View(GET), Modify(PUT), Add(POST), Delete(DELETE) and Fast view(HEAD). If this checkboxes are not selected Click2Sync will not function properly

Save the current changes

  1. Upon saving you will be redirected to the Webservice
  2. Your new key should appear, this will be used in Click2Sync. Copy this key
  3. You should have "Enable Prestashop's websevice" indicating "YES" if not please activate it and save

Save the current changes

After filling the two textboxes with the correct information click on "Scan Products", with this Click2Sync will start reading your products

  1. When Click2Sync starts reading your products a circle with 6 options will appear (Sync, Absorb updates made on your prestashop, Send pending updates to your prestashop, Analyze, Settings and Pause)
  2. On the inferior part of the page you can view the progress the product load(The first time load can take a considerable amount of time)

When the load process completes you will see the product information displayed on the middle.

  1. Image
  2. Name
  3. Price
  4. Quantity

3. Connect your VirtueMart instance

This steps assume you already developed your custom integration to our API, if you want to know more about how to integrate to Click2Sync click here.

Click on the "add storefront..." drop down and select de option marked as "Custom"

A pop-up asking for the API endpoints and URL will appear. Fill in the textboxes, press the "Generate Key" this will be used as a header response on your endpoints and then press the "Scan Products" button to start the import of your products

You will see a notification in the lower right corner indicating that the process is running, wait until you see the notification change to "first time load complete". After it finishes you can view your products on Click2Sync. (Note: The first time load can take a considerable amount of time)

4. Now to migrate the products from one connection to the other

5. Enter to any product detail page

6. Press the "Batch" button. A pop-up of Batch operations will appear. Click on the button marked as "add +" and a list will appear, select "Mirror products"

7. In the text box of "to" write the connection where you want to mirror your products, in this case select "VirtueMart"

8. Click on the "Batch" button to start the batch operation of importing your products

9. A notificacion will appear indicating the batch process is executing

10. When the process is done a notification saying "done, your batch update has been completed" will appear

11. Finally send the pending updates to your VirtueMart instance by pressing the "Sync" button