#695 Re-migrating back to J2Commerce

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Latest post by Adam Melcher on Friday, 13 March 2026 20:09 UTC

David Maurand

For years I used J2Store, but a Joomla update fouled its properfuction in my site for some reason (not in others, where the stores seamlessly updated throughout, and into the J2Commerce era). The only viable replacement was Eshop, which supports this particular store inefficiently, and with more complexity than it seems to me should be required. 

Do you have a rcommended method for assigning the last few years of purchases to preconfigured (by me) products?
Will current users and logins retain access to the store if the above can be done?

The design latitude and relative configuration simplicity I had with J2Store > Commerce is sorely missed. J2Store is still in the site, so those customers will probably come back online, I expect?

Adam Melcher

David,

I replied from the email, but in case that never made it, here was my reply:


We are about to release the Joomla 6 native version and plan to create migration tools from other ecommerce sites. If you can provide me with temp admin access to that site, or send me a link to a full akeeba backup, I can use it to create the first of the migration tools (for eShop). This should make it pretty easy for you to jump back into J2... and yes, current users shouldn't be affected since they would log in as before. It's always easier to create migration tools with live data because it ensures everything ports over properly.

 
 
Adam

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David Maurand

My site isn't up to J6 yet. (It failed on an earlier attempt - not sure why, I don't think it told me why!) I can create a staging clone and J6-it. Would you prefer to work in our sandbox, or your own?

Adam Melcher

I would need to work in my own so I can map out all the database tables and everything else. If you have j2store still running on that site, you would need to disabled every j2store extension before starting the migration to joomla 6, because it forces you to disable the behavior plugin and if anything is enabled, it would break things. after the migration you can enable them again - Olivier is working on an easy migration tool to help with that part (for those who want to run J2 version 4 on a Joomla 6 site). 

A backup of the current Joomla 5 site should provide me with enough info to make a migration tool for eshop.

 

Adam

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David Maurand

How do I get you that file. This is a public ticket so I don't want to post anything here. I can send the jpa via wetransfer, put it in dropbox, or add it to my Google Drive.

Adam Melcher

You can send it via WeTransfer to support@j2commerce.com

 

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David Maurand

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David Maurand

If they are using their existing credentials on another store, will these new credentials interfere?

Adam Melcher

David,

If their current credentials to log into the site are Joomla user accounts, then it shouldn't affect them whatsoever. The menu they get taken to may change, but the access won't.

 

Adam

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