Magento 1 to Shopware 6: The One Migration Where the Platform Choice Is Open
Magento 1 has no upgrade path to anywhere, so nothing carries over to Magento 2 either. What a move to Shopware 6 involves, and when it is the right call.
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Magento 1 has no upgrade path to anywhere, so nothing carries over to Magento 2 either. What a move to Shopware 6 involves, and when it is the right call.
Magento 1 lost support in June 2020. Moving to Magento 2 is a rebuild with a data migration attached — what the Data Migration Tool covers, what it doesn't, and how to scope the rest.
Most reasons for leaving Magento — it's slow, it's insecure, upgrades hurt — describe a maintenance problem, not a platform problem. What staying well actually looks like.
Medusa gives you commerce primitives in TypeScript, not a store in a box. What that trade actually costs, what your team needs to look like, and when it pays off.
There's no official Shopware to Magento migration path, so this one is custom ETL from day one. When the move is justified, and how to run it without losing your catalog structure.
Shopware's Migration Assistant moves your data. It doesn't move your store. A realistic guide to a Magento to Shopware 6 replatform, including the SEO work that decides whether it succeeds.
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