Shopware 5 to 6 Migration

Shopware 6 wasn't an incremental update to Shopware 5 — it's a ground-up rewrite on Symfony, with a new admin, a new plugin architecture, and a new Storefront templating layer replacing the old Smarty/Bootstrap setup. That's why "upgrading" isn't really the right word; it's closer to a full rebuild that happens to keep your data.

Shopware's update guide for Shopware 5.7 gives July 2024 as the end of security releases. Since then you have been running customer payment and personal data on a platform with no official security fixes.

PHP adds a second clock: Shopware 5.7 officially runs on PHP 7.4 up to 8.2, and newer versions are not released for it. According to php.net, security support for PHP 8.2 ends on 31 December 2026. From then on, none of the PHP versions Shopware 5 officially runs on will receive security updates. Migrating before that date avoids a platform that can be secured neither at the application level nor at the server level.

The price is driven mainly by the number of plugins without an equivalent in the Shopware 6 Store, the amount of custom code in Shopware 5's core, a customized theme, connected systems such as ERP or PIM, and the data volume of products, customers, and order history. A single general number would be misleading, so we assess your store in a discovery phase and quote a fixed scope only afterwards.

As a rule of thumb, a store with a moderate number of plugins and a custom theme takes 8 to 14 weeks. Plugin rebuilds and theme work usually take longer than the data transfer. If you want to be live before the end of 2026, start the assessment now. Our guide to migration cost and timeline covers the basics.