Then her hosting bill doubled. “Your OpenCart version is outdated,” the support email said. “You need a developer to migrate.”
OpenCart didn’t have a one-click product CSV export. But Maya found a free extension in the OpenCart marketplace: (by iSenseLab). Free. She installed it.
For the tax issue: WooCommerce had tax settings off. She went to – enabled tax, set her local rate (10% GST). Done. opencart to woocommerce migration free
Maya fixed broken images by installing (free by Qassim Hassan). It scanned imported products and fetched images from the URLs in her CSV. One click – 47 images appeared.
She sat on her living room floor at 11 p.m., laptop open, and whispered, “There has to be a way.” Then her hosting bill doubled
Maya researched. Most automated migration plugins cost $69–$299. She couldn’t afford that.
Maya had run “Urban Herbals”—her tiny online shop for handmade soaps and organic teas—on OpenCart for three years. In the beginning, it worked. But as she added products, the dashboard groaned. Extensions broke after every update. And the latest SEO plugin? $199 a year. Her profit margins were already thin. But Maya found a free extension in the
She tested checkout. Smooth.