Merchant 4 OpenXB Store to Miva 5

[blakerockstar]

Has anyone attempted upgrading their OpenXB Store to Miva 5 yet? If so I'd like to hear any successes, or any valuable steps that can make for a smooth transistion?

Imparticular, this store we are looking at upgrading is also what we call 'frankenstiened' as far as all the OpenUI, OpenXB, and some custom app modules. Obviously we will need to make sure we will have some compatible modules, but wanted to see if where we may need to compromise.

I can tell you that our Miva5 stores screams over this Miva4 Store using OpenXB, so that is one of our key benefits for attempting this.

All suggestions appreciated.

[ILoveHostasaurus]

There is no special procedure needed since an upgrade to Merchant 5 is not really an upgrade as we've known them in the past; Merchant 5 upgrades just involve adding a module to the Merchant 4 store and it exports all of the data that Miva chose to include, then you import that into a new Merchant 5 store and it adds in the store and data for you. I have run into some timeout issues though on large stores; we have a customer with a 600,000 product OpenXB store that I cannot successfully run the MM5 upgrade module on without it timing out during the export.

[blakerockstar]

Thanks for the heads up regarding an upgrade!