Move Magento to Shopware 5
We transfer your data from Magento to Shopware
Data migration for Shopware
Moving from the city centre to a trendy district, from a greenfield site to a pedestrian zone: What the choice of business location is in bricks-and-mortar retail, the choice of the right location is in e-commerce. Shop software. If you already have a business, you should ask yourself from time to time whether you are still in the right location.
Read in this Field reportthe positive effects a move can have.
With the large Update Magento to version 2.0 you will inevitably have to re-plan your site soon, because a fully automated migration from Magento 1.X to version 2 is not possible and the Support for Magento 1.X was completely discontinued in 2018.
The adjustments to the numerous existing extensions will probably bring a lot of unrest to your shop over the next few months and unfortunately cause you unpleasant costs. We hope you also see this as an opportunity, as there have been a number of innovations in e-commerce in recent years: New functions, new payment methods, new methods of search engine optimisation and multimedia product descriptions have been introduced.
Even if you have invested a lot of money and effort in your current Magento system It will probably be more expensive and more time-consuming to bring the old shop up to the current technical standard than an immediate restart. Newer systems like the ones we recommend Shopware 5 or Shopware 6 often provide the required functions free of charge or for little money.
Data transmission methods
There are several ways to migrate from Magento to Shopware. Which method ultimately leads to the goal faster depends in particular on the customisations made to the old shop.
Automated relocation via plugin
The good news is that moving from Magento 1 to Shopware can be easier and cheaper than migrating from Magento 1 to Magento 2, as Shopware provides a free plugin especially for this purpose that completely automates the migration.
Relocation with manual data mapping
In addition, a well-thought-out relocation plan allows you to recognise stumbling blocks and solve problems efficiently. To do this, we go through the previous shop and create a list with product, category, image and customer data. Whether order and customer histories and metadata should also be transferred depends on the project. On this basis, we create the so-called mapping, the merging of the existing and the new database schema. For testing purposes, we recommend creating a temporary migration environment in which both the existing system and the new system are installed. We only make any desired changes or optimisations after the migration to the new system in order to leave the target system as true to the original and unchanged as possible.
Relocation via the export and import function
However, combining the export tool (old shop) with the import tool (new shop) can also lead to a good result. If necessary, the data can also be edited, expanded and corrected directly in Excel before importing it into the new shop. As a rule, all relevant shop data can be transferred in this way.
Relocation via the merchandise management system
An alternative to the methods described above is to relocate via your merchandise management system - if available. The existing data sovereignty in a merchandise management or ERP system can significantly simplify the migration process. In this way, a new Shopware shop can be developed and configured in parallel, as the data can also be imported and synchronised in the new shop as often as required.
The challenges of migration
The first migration rarely runs smoothly. It is usually only in the new shop that you realise what is actually missing or incorrectly displayed. Here are Mindfulness of our developer and Patience of our project manager.
If everything is displayed correctly, we install modules and plugins and configure them accordingly. We also make the standard customisations now.
Attention: Avoid SEO crash
From a search engine optimisation perspective, it is important to match the old URLs with the new ones. If the new ones are not 100 % identical, appropriate redirects must be set up, as otherwise unnecessary 404 error pages and Google has to completely re-index the shop.
Only when we become 100 % satisfied Once you are ready, the "right" move is initiated, because we will carry it out in a few hours or, better still, minutes, in order to minimise your loss of business.
Plan migration in detail
As complex and nerve-wracking as the migration of a Magento shop can be: Our good planning is the most important guarantee that the Migration proceeds predictably and we avoid as many mistakes as possible. Especially with a view to the future, you as a shop operator should not shy away from this important, sensible and necessary step.
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