three important questions on OC

[rldev]

I am considering moving a shop from an old Magento installation to Open Cart. The reason I am consdering this is that OC seems a lot more responsive in performance and the community seems to be a lot more responsive in helping others. Besides going from Magento 1.3 to 1.7 is no walk in the park.

I need to know a few things.

1. Is there an out of the box way or extension that would allow me to sell a product(a kit) that is made up of different skus and maintain inventory control on the individual skus? The kit will only have one price. This is very important for me.

2. Is opencart easier to upgrade then Magento? How about in relation to the store templates?

3. I have several different types of products, they fall into 3 different categories. Some are flat ship, some are Fedex, and some are shipped free. This was easily doable in Magento as I could create rules for each category. I do see a ship by category module, but it doesn't look like it would allow me to choose Fedex as one of my options. So basically I need a product or category based shipping option that will allow me to choose different shipping methods Is the same apparent for OC? To be more clear if customer orders product A(free ship) only, it is free ship. If customer orders product A(free ship) and product B(flat rate ship), customer is charged flat rate ship. If customer orders C(Fedex ship), customer is charged live Fedex Rate. If customer orders A, B, C or A, C or B, C; customer is then charged Fedex Live rate.

4. Does anyone have experience with Cart2Cart for moving data from Magento to OpenCart?

[rldev]

Bump. Nobody can answer any of these questions, even one?

[bigchili]

1. Is there an out of the box way or extension that would allow me to sell a product(a kit) that is made up of different skus and maintain inventory control on the individual skus? The kit will only have one price. This is very important for me.

Closest thing out of the box you're going to get is setting up product options for the kit you are selling. You can maintain inventory control on the different options. Not familiar with any 3rd party extension that will allow you to have multiple SKUs for 1 product though.

2. Is opencart easier to upgrade then Magento? How about in relation to the store templates?

Yes and Yes.

3. I have several different types of products, they fall into 3 different categories. Some are flat ship, some are Fedex, and some are shipped free. This was easily doable in Magento as I could create rules for each category. I do see a ship by category module, but it doesn't look like it would allow me to choose Fedex as one of my options. So basically I need a product or category based shipping option that will allow me to choose different shipping methods Is the same apparent for OC? To be more clear if customer orders product A(free ship) only, it is free ship. If customer orders product A(free ship) and product B(flat rate ship), customer is charged flat rate ship. If customer orders C(Fedex ship), customer is charged live Fedex Rate. If customer orders A, B, C or A, C or B, C; customer is then charged Fedex Live rate.

Might be a 3rd party extensions to handle that. Best bet is to check in the Extension Store here http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension&path=4

4. Does anyone have experience with Cart2Cart for moving data from Magento to OpenCart?

Don't have experience with them, but there are a couple of mods that you could use to do it yourself pretty easily.

http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension&filter_search=Total%20Import%20Pro&sort=e.date_modified&order=DESC

[rldev]

Thanks. Maybe someone else will know something about my shipping needs. I couldn't find any extension that clearly allows me to do what I need.

[Solan]

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