Q: I want to pre-order an upgrade from Professional to Ultimate, but I won’t need CS-Cart Ultimate right after it is released. Will it be possible to activate the license upgrade later and continue using the Professional license until I am ready to move to Ultimate?
Moving data from CS-Cart 2.2.4 Professional to CS-Cart 3 Ultimate is similar to upgrading it to CS-Cart 3 Pro – make a special store archive and then deploy it in Ultimate or specify a path to a CS-Cart 2.2.4 store (if it resides on the same server).
Then, it will be required to move data from these 4 stores (based on CS-Cart Professional) to one Ultimate installation.
Then, you will have the ability to exchange the rest of your Professional licenses to Ultimate storefront ones at no additional cost via CS-Cart Help Desk. As a result, you will have 1 admin and 5 storefront Ultimate licenses that will give you the right to make 1 Ultimate installation with 5 independent storefronts (the 5th storefront is a bonus).

A: First of all, it is required to buy the upgrade of 1 Professional license to 1 Ultimate license pack (that includes 1 admin and 2 storefront Ultimate licenses) that will cost $455 after Ultimate Edition release, but at this moment it is available with $100 discount (unfortunately, there is no ability just to exchange Professional licenses to appropriate number of Ultimate ones).

Q: I have 4 CS-Cart Professional installations and I want to switch to Ultimate Edition to have the ability to manage all my stores via a common admin panel. What should I do and how will the upgrade work in this case?Upgrading CS-Cart 2.2.4 Professional to CS-Cart 3 Ultimate

A: We will do our best, but most probably it will be available some time later.

Q: Will the new upgrade be available on the date of CS-Cart 3 release?

A: Custom-made add-ons for version 2.x will need some revisioning to work in CS-Cart 3. We will publish a detailed guide to add-on transferring on our site.

Q: Will my custom add-ons for CS-Cart 2.x work in CS-Cart 3?
Initially CS-Cart 3 will have only 1 new storefront skin, and we will include more free ones as soon as possible after the release.
The design templates of CS-Cart 2.x will be incompatible with this new structure, but the content of the blocks and their positions will be transferred — they will just look differently.

A: CS-Cart 3 introduces a new and more powerful block manager and a whole new approach to page structuring.
Q: Will my storefront design remain the same after the upgrade?

A: Yes, it will. Products, categories, users, etc. will be available after the upgrade just as they were before. No store data will be lost, because the database structure will be just converted to the one of CS-Cart 3. This also applies to upgrading from Professional to Ultimate edition.

Q: My current CS-Cart installation is populated with products and other data. Will this data be available in my store after upgrading to CS-Cart 3?

A: Yes, you will, but it will be required to upgrade your CS-Cart up to version 2.2.4 first, then follow the instructions above.

Q: My CS-Cart store is older than 2.2.4. Will I be able to upgrade to 3 too?
Also, if both CS-Cart 3 and 2.2.4 are installed on the same server, you will be able to perform data transfer without creating a transition archive: CS-Cart 3 will be able to connect directly to MySQL database of CS-Cart 2.2.4 and gather all data automatically.
CS-Cart 3 will have a pre-installed Export/Import Stores add-on that will be used for importing store data from such archives.
In order to do it we will provide a special add-on for CS-Cart 2.2.4 that will allow you to pack the whole store database and images into a special archive.
Unlike before, it will be impossible to upgrade CS-Cart to version 3 via the Upgrade center in the admin panel. Instead, it will be required to install CS-Cart 3 separately and then transfer the data from CS-Cart 2.2.4 to it.

A: CS-Cart 3 is a major release with many modifications, so the upgrade process will be a bit trickier than it was for previous versions.