Can I switch from Prestashop to Magento?

[irideflatland]

I've been using Prestashop for a few months now. It looked good at first, but now I hate it.

Payment options suck - Can't get paypal or google checkout to work (others are having the same problems) and they only have an OFFLINE credit card module, so you have to run the credit cards on your physical store's machine, no online processing.

And there are some other things I don't like about it either.



Sooo... the only reason I didn't use Magento in the first place is because it doesn't work with Hostgator hosting. But I would like to switch hosting and use Magento.

Is there a way to get the store all set up on another domain or something, and once all the products are added I can transfer it to the domain I want it on (the one that has Prestashop now)?

 

[kblessinggr]

normally you can just change the configuration settings for a new home url and such (kinda like wordpress when you mess with the database settings itself). But it may be easier installing it as a subfolder or subdomain on the domain you want to keep, so that when you're ready to switch off prestashop, the main index.php in the root of the domain can be your sales page (and using RSS and such, you can possibly have it populate latest products,etc).

 

[irideflatland]

normally you can just change the configuration settings for a new home url and such (kinda like wordpress when you mess with the database settings itself). But it may be easier installing it as a subfolder or subdomain on the domain you want to keep, so that when you're ready to switch off prestashop, the main index.php in the root of the domain can be your sales page (and using RSS and such, you can possibly have it populate latest products,etc).

If I do the subdomain route, then my store pages will all be like store.domain.com/xxxxxx right? I want it to just be domain.com/xxxxx

 

[kblessinggr]

Correct if you do the subdomain route, but what I mentioned earlier is that domain.com/index.php would be a splash page that could link to the store.domain.com , otherwise you would do domain.com/store , as that would work to.

If you wanted to have it installed in the root you would likely need to adjust the database settings after transfering the files and database dump to the new domain to make sure the paths are updated.