Google Merchant Resources

Below are the Resources listed by Google for their Product feed. Many new requirements.

Merchant Resources

Below you’ll find the new feed specification and policies and resources to help you prepare for these changes.

Zen Cart to BigCommerce Conversion or Migration

Here are the steps to migrate your products from Zen Cart to Big Commerce. (This information can probably be used to migrate from OSCommerce as well.)  It’s a little tricky to do smoothly. The basic process is to create a CSV file from your Zen Cart database then use the Import Products feature in BigCommerce. The tricky part ,of course, is to create the CSV file properly. It’s best to get your data organized in Zen Cart before creating the CSV file. NOTE: I wrote this for BigCommerce V6. The current V7 does not have a option import feature.

1. Product names need to be unique. In Zen Cart, you can have two products with the same name. Big Commerce uses the product name to identify the product.
If you have access to a SQL query tool like PHPmyadmin, you can use the following SQL query to check for duplicate names in Zen Cart: Continue reading