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The Reasons Why You Should Migrate From WooCommerce

Let’s be honest: how are you supposed to be truly successful with your online shop on WooCommerce? WooCommerce is built on WordPress—a blogging platform from 2004. You can feel that in many places.

Since WooCommerce’s WordPress foundation was never designed for a modern e-commerce platform, in practice the whole store looks like Frankenstein’s monster: kind of cobbled together—and usually not very conversion-focused.

WooCommerce VS Shopware 6: The Most Important Differences

Shopware 6 is simply a clean platform built for one purpose: to push your e-commerce success forward.

For one thing, it starts with SEO optimization: WooCommerce’s rather messy—and especially slow—code tends to be a disadvantage in search engines. Shopware 6, on the other hand, can rightfully present itself as a favorite.

What we notice again and again is that getting started with WooCommerce is pretty easy, but any additional adjustments to checkout, discounts, tracking, vouchers, and many other features are very unstable and time-consuming. For every little thing, you need to install yet another plugin. Shopware 6 already comes with lots of features—and in practice, the extensions are reliable too.

Ads on Google, Microsoft, and Bing also benefit from the much faster performance. That increases conversions and means you have to spend less ad budget. A good deal, right?

The Reasons Why You Should Migrate From Magento

Magento is pretty well-known, but that doesn’t automatically mean it’s the best e-commerce system. Magento has always been complex, which makes it hard to develop further. Those two reasons, plus the very high license costs, mean costs can rise very quickly.

Magento VS Shopware 6: The Most Important Differences

Shopware 6 is much easier to use. As a shop owner, you can quickly find your way around the modern UI and also create multiple sales channels for Google Shopping, Amazon, and more—fast. It just makes sense and is built intuitively.

As already mentioned above, costs for things like licenses are significantly cheaper. According to our research, Magento sometimes charges $22,000–$125,000 per year for certain licenses. Shopware 6 is much cheaper with the Professional and Enterprise versions.

Hosting also isn’t easy with Magento, because Magento is a real performance monster—and you definitely have to pay for an expensive, large server so the shop runs stable and fast enough.

The Reasons Why You Should Migrate From Shopify

As an e-commerce platform, Shopify is clearly better compared to WooCommerce, Magento, and others—but Shopware 6 is still better in some aspects.

Many of these benefits come from the fact that you can choose between the self-hosted and cloud version of Shopware 6. Key terms here are flexibility, extensibility, customization, and data control.

Shopify VS Shopware 6: The Key Differences Explained

The biggest advantage is that with Shopware 6 you can decide for yourself whether your data is fully under your control with the self-hosted option, or whether you use the cloud version like Shopify to take some load off. The biggest advantage of self-hosted: you can customize everything and have anything developed. You’re not tied to the limitations of cloud versions.

Development can also be easier with the self-hosted version, because unlike Shopify, with Shopware 6 you don’t necessarily have to communicate through the limiting cloud APIs. That reduces overall costs a bit in the end.

For large or demanding shops, there’s also the option to use Shopware PWA, which lets you take your shop’s UI and performance to the next level—and perform significantly better in SEO and ads.