Shopware 5 to Shopware 6 Migration: Five Months, Documented Method, Dedicated QA

No. Shopware ended support for Shopware 5 in 2024. There are no more security patches, and modern PHP versions, payment plugins and marketplace apps target Shopware 6. Running Shopware 5 in 2026 is a security and compliance risk, especially for stores that process card payments.

Four to six months for an established B2C or B2B store. The Wortmann Group migration took five months: four months of delivery and one month of stabilization. Very large catalogs, many custom plugins or several ERP integrations extend the timeline.

The Shopware 5 profile migrates customers with passwords, customer groups, products with variants, properties, categories, media, manufacturers, orders, order documents, newsletter recipients, promotions in part and some content. It does not migrate plugins, themes, custom tables, plugin data, most SEO settings or integrations. Elogic Commerce uses it for standard data and writes custom scripts for the rest.

The Smarty theme is rebuilt as a Twig storefront theme in Shopware 6, or as a headless frontend on Shopware Composable Frontends or Vue Storefront. Design and UX are carried over. The rebuild is an opportunity to fix Core Web Vitals.

Yes. Shopware 6 customer groups, Rule Builder and B2B Components cover customer-specific catalogs, prices, permissions and ordering rules. Elogic Commerce migrated exactly this scope for Wortmann Group without creating an oversized customization layer.

If Shopware fits your operating model, Shopware 6 is the shortest and lowest-risk path because the Migration Assistant covers Shopware 5 data well. If your requirements have changed, Elogic Commerce also migrates to Shopify Plus and Adobe Commerce and gives a platform recommendation after assessment. Elogic Commerce is platform-neutral.

Yes. Wortmann Group kept architectural and product ownership. Elogic Commerce embedded two certified Shopware developers and one QA engineer into the client’s environment in under three days. Elogic Commerce can also own the full delivery.

Yes. Shopware 5 stores accumulate business logic that creates application and database bottlenecks. The migration is the moment to fix them. Elogic Commerce reduced average response time by 32% on a 90,000-product Shopware 6 store for 0815 Online Handel GmbH with a dedicated performance program.

Yes. The Shopware Migration Assistant connects to the live Shopware 5 database, so the Shopware 5 store keeps trading while the Shopware 6 store is built and the data migration is rehearsed. The final delta sync and cutover happen in a low-traffic window. Elogic Commerce ran the Wortmann Group migration this way.

It is a migration. Shopware 6 is a new platform built on Symfony with a new data model, a Twig storefront instead of Smarty, a Vue.js administration instead of ExtJS, and a new plugin system. Shopware 5 plugins and themes do not run on Shopware 6. Core data is transferred with the Shopware Migration Assistant. Functionality is rebuilt.

Cost depends on the number of custom plugins to rebuild, the storefront scope, integrations and catalog complexity. Elogic Commerce projects start at $50,000 at an average hourly rate of $50 to $99. A fixed estimate follows a two to three week assessment. Embedded developers on a monthly basis are an alternative when your team owns the project.

No. Every plugin is inventoried and classified. Many Shopware 5 plugins are replaced by native Shopware 6 features such as Flow Builder, Rule Builder and Shopping Experiences. Others are replaced by Shopware Store apps. The rest are rebuilt as Shopware 6 plugins. Wortmann Group’s custom business logic was redesigned and reimplemented, not copied.

Shopware 5 and Shopware 6 generate different URLs. Elogic Commerce exports the full Shopware 5 URL list, maps every URL to a 301 redirect, migrates metadata and canonical tags, and validates the crawl before launch. Expect two to six weeks of fluctuation, not permanent loss.

Shopware 5 integrations use APIs that do not exist in Shopware 6. Each interface is rebuilt or adapted on the Shopware 6 Admin API or Sync API, with monitoring and reconciliation. Elogic Commerce rebuilt the surrounding system interfaces for Wortmann Group as part of the migration.

Community Edition is free. Rise, Evolve and Beyond add B2B Components, extended features and support. Elogic Commerce maps your Shopware 5 features and plugins to the lowest plan that meets them. Hosting can be self-managed, Shopware PaaS or Shopware SaaS.

AI assistance was applied to test case generation, regression coverage for repetitive commerce flows, test data preparation and result analysis. The QA engineer kept ownership of test strategy, risk assessment and release decisions. The agreed QA scope was completed with 25% fewer hours than estimated.

Shopware B2B Components replace the B2B Suite. Shopware has announced that the B2B Suite is retired from Shopware 6.8, so a Shopware 5 store with B2B logic migrates straight to B2B Components: employee management and roles, quick order, shopping lists, quote management and approval workflows, with customer-specific pricing through rules and price lists. Elogic Commerce maps each Shopware 5 B2B feature to a component or a custom build in the assessment.