Shopware to Shopify
Shopware 5 has reached end of life. We handle the complete Shopware to Shopify migration: products with variants, properties, categories, customers, orders and every URL via 301 redirect – in around 4 weeks, at a fixed price.
Why switch?
Shopware 5 served you well – but without updates, with costly maintenance and a growing plugin load it turns from a growth driver into a liability.
Shopware 5 no longer receives regular updates. Every gap in the shop, its plugins or the PHP stack stays open – a real risk for revenue, customer data and PCI compliance.
Hosting, PHP upgrades, plugin compatibility, staging: Shopware 5 needs constant technical care. Shopify is hosted, patched and scaled – you focus on products and marketing.
Servers, agency hours, plugin licences and emergency fixes add up quickly on Shopware 5. Shopify bundles hosting, security and updates into one predictable monthly price.
Legacy Shopware 5 themes are often slow, especially on mobile. Shopify ships a global CDN, modern themes and a conversion-tested checkout without extra development.
Data migration
We map your full Shopware data set onto the Shopify data model – including the fields no standard importer knows about.
All products with SKUs, descriptions, tiered pricing, customer group prices and tax rates.
Shopware configurators are mapped to Shopify options and variants – including surcharges and SKUs.
Free-text fields, properties and filter values become metafields and Shopify filter taxonomy entries.
Category tree, streaming categories and menus are rebuilt as Shopify collections and navigation.
Customer accounts, addresses and customer groups including B2B logic and net price display.
Orders with line items and status – ready for reporting, returns and support from day one.
Product images, galleries, data sheets and downloads are transferred and correctly linked.
Meta titles, descriptions, canonicals and every Shopware URL as a 301 redirect.
Special cases such as bundles, configurator products, voucher logic or ERP fields are reviewed during the analysis and mapped individually.
SEO & 301 redirects
Shopify enforces its own paths like /products/ and /collections/. This is exactly where unguided Shopware migrations lose visibility. We plan the structure upfront and 301 every old URL to its new target.
URL & ranking audit
We pull every indexed Shopware URL from the sitemap, Search Console and a crawl – including traffic and rankings.
1:1 mapping
Every product, category and CMS URL gets a defined Shopify target. No blanket redirect to the homepage.
301s at go-live
Redirects ship with the launch – together with sitemap, robots.txt, canonicals and structured data.
Post-launch monitoring
After launch we monitor crawling, 404s and rankings and fix issues until the curve recovers.
We also carry over meta data, hreflang annotations and structured data so Google understands the new store immediately.
Pitfalls
These four points decide whether a Shopware to Shopify migration delivers clean data or weeks of rework.
Problem
Shopware 5 supports unlimited configurator dimensions while Shopify allows three options and 100 variants per product. Standard importers fail here or create duplicates.
Our solution
We analyse the variant matrix upfront, consolidate dimensions sensibly and rebuild complex configurators via metafields or product sets – without losing data.
Problem
Shopware properties, filters and free-text fields have no direct Shopify equivalent. They often end up inside the description text and are lost for filters and templates.
Our solution
We move them into structured metafields and the Shopify filter taxonomy. Filters, templates and feeds then read real data instead of HTML.
Problem
Shopify prescribes /products/ and /collections/. Without mapping old Shopware URLs individually you lose rankings, backlinks and ad quality.
Our solution
Full URL mapping before launch, 301s for products, categories, CMS pages and pagination – plus post-launch checks for 404s and redirect chains.
Problem
B2B pricing, minimum order values, voucher rules or ERP integrations live in Shopware plugins that simply don't exist for Shopify.
Our solution
We assess every plugin: Shopify feature, app or custom build. Whatever matters we rebuild as a custom app, Shopify Flow or Shopify Functions.
Process
A fixed process with clear milestones – your Shopware store stays online untouched until go-live.
Shopware audit: products, variants, properties, plugins, URLs and integrations are captured and mapped.
Theme, navigation, payment methods, shipping, taxes and – where needed – POS and B2B logic.
Import of products, inventory, images, categories, customers and orders including sample verification.
Redirects, domain switch, training and monitoring of the first days after launch.
Pricing depends on product count, variant complexity and custom plugin logic. After the analysis you receive a binding fixed-price quote.
Guide prices from €4,500 to €8,000 net
Non-binding net guide prices for orientation. You'll find all packages, deliverables and details on the Shopify migration overview page.
FAQ
Send us a few details about your Shopware store – you'll get a concrete migration plan and a fixed-price quote.