For orders – she decided not to migrate them. Too complex. She kept the old OpenCart site on a subdomain (old.urbanherbals.com) for legal records. Customers could view past orders there.
She opened it in Google Sheets and gasped—45 columns. Product descriptions had HTML. Image paths were absolute URLs. opencart to woocommerce migration free
Maya pointed her main domain to the new WooCommerce site. She installed a free caching plugin (LiteSpeed Cache) and a free image optimizer (EWWW Image Optimizer). The site loaded in 1.2 seconds – down from 4.7 seconds on OpenCart. For orders – she decided not to migrate them