Making migration to Drupal Commerce 2 easier

Moving to a new e-commerce platform can be a massive undertaking, but Drupal is making it simple. Whether you currently use Commerce 1, Ubercart, Shopify, or Magento, there is (or will soon be) an easy way to move over to Commerce 2 and see what it can offer you. Watch the latest High5 video here to learn more.

What moving means

There are a ton of different parts that make up your e-commerce site: products, product variations, orders, customers, account balances, user logins, etc. One of the first things you need to decide is which parts you're going to migrate. Maybe you want to pull order data, but not discounts, which can be notoriously difficult to move over. Products are obviously essential, but moving tax rules over is not nearly as crucial, since you could probably set those up yourself (and if you work with a third party for that anyway, migrating tax rules is a waste of time).

What migrate tools can do

Migrating your site manually is incredibly labour-intensive and prone to failure (you try moving 10,000 products manually without screwing any of them up.) Automating the process with migrating tools that have been thoroughly tested will give you a lot more consistency when moving your data around. And the best part is that this is all open source; we're releasing these tools so that anyone can migrate their site on their own at no charge.

How the tools were developed

We started from the most common stuff (products, orders) and worked our way out to customers and discounts and product classes and all the rest. We have sample sets that we test for each of those aspects. So we have full databases of Ubercart sites, for instance, that we migrate over so we can see which parts are missing and what needs to be improved. We continually work to build those missing pieces and fill out all those edge cases.

What's ready and what's coming

We have all the basics done for Ubercart; if you want to do an Ubercart to Commerce 2 migration right now, you can do it, though you might have to do a little bit of configuring and customizing to get the edge cases. We're trying to get to a point where you can literally just push a button and have everything move over, but that's still a couple of months away. Commerce 1 is close to that, Magento is pretty basic, and Shopify is more of a prototype right now.