Hi folks,
I have a client who's about to go live with a dev store, by swapping URLs to turn the dev store into the live store. The dev store, of course, contains all the orders that were present in the live store when a copy was taken to create the dev store. But while the dev store was under construction, a lot of new orders came into the live store. The client wants to transfer these orders into the new store, so that the order history will be complete.
I see that Miva Merchant still has a built-in "Export Orders to Flat File" function, as it has for years. But there's no corresponding import function. The conventional wisdom is that it's not possible to import orders from one store to another, because there are ID numbers and other data that won't be correct when moved from one store to another. But I'm an unconventional guy ... and this is a special case, transferring orders from one store to another that has an almost identical configuration.
I think I can write a matched pair of import and export modules that will do a decent job of transferring data from one store to another. It may not get everything, but it can get enough data to be helpful on the admin pages, and also on the order-history pages that customers use to view their orders. Before I start spec'ing out the project for the client, I wanted to ask:
I have a client who's about to go live with a dev store, by swapping URLs to turn the dev store into the live store. The dev store, of course, contains all the orders that were present in the live store when a copy was taken to create the dev store. But while the dev store was under construction, a lot of new orders came into the live store. The client wants to transfer these orders into the new store, so that the order history will be complete.
I see that Miva Merchant still has a built-in "Export Orders to Flat File" function, as it has for years. But there's no corresponding import function. The conventional wisdom is that it's not possible to import orders from one store to another, because there are ID numbers and other data that won't be correct when moved from one store to another. But I'm an unconventional guy ... and this is a special case, transferring orders from one store to another that has an almost identical configuration.
I think I can write a matched pair of import and export modules that will do a decent job of transferring data from one store to another. It may not get everything, but it can get enough data to be helpful on the admin pages, and also on the order-history pages that customers use to view their orders. Before I start spec'ing out the project for the client, I wanted to ask:
- Has anyone done this already?
- Any thoughts on how to do it, and how well it will work?
- If I get the modules working well, would you like to buy a copy for your own use? Or maybe pay a modest fee to have me provide this service?
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