# Shopware

> Shopware is e-commerce software from shopware AG in Schöppingen, Germany; the vendor says its current product, Shopware 6, is a complete redevelopment of Shopware 5.

Original page: https://t10.de/en/glossary/shopware
Publisher: total10 GmbH, https://t10.de/en/glossary

According to its vendor, Shopware 6 is a commerce platform for B2B and B2C based on open source. By default, customers host and run it themselves, for example on their own cloud infrastructure; alternatively, it can run in environments that the vendor hosts.

The vendor says that reworking Shopware 5, which was built as a single large block of code, would have been far more complex, more error-prone and therefore considerably more expensive, so Shopware 6 was written from scratch. It adds that Shopware 6 uses the Symfony framework throughout. On 16 August 2022, shopware AG [announced](https://www.shopware.com/de/news/shopware-5-so-geht-es-weiter/) (in German) that support for Shopware 5, which had been available since 27 April 2015, was to run until July 2024, and that there would be no version 5.8. For a move from version 5, Shopware's migration assistant shows whether the installed plugins are also available for Shopware 6 and whether their configuration can be carried over.

Our work with Shopware 5 is limited to the long-term maintenance of existing shops; we never start new projects on it. Our own Shopware 5 shops include rasensamen-kaufen.de and rollenrampe.de. When a change of platform is due and makes economic sense for the shop owner, we help move the shop to Shopify. We do not offer Shopware 6.

## See also

- [EOL](https://t10.de/en/glossary/eol): EOL (end of life) is the point at which a vendor or project stops supporting a software version, so that users may be exposed to unpatched security vulnerabilities.
- [Shopify](https://t10.de/en/glossary/shopify): Shopify is a subscription-based commerce platform: merchants either have Shopify host their online shop or build their own shop front on its Storefront API.
- [Symfony](https://t10.de/en/glossary/symfony): Symfony is an open-source PHP framework, a ready-made foundation for web applications, released under the MIT licence and developed by its community to a fixed release schedule.

## Where the term appears

- [Online shops: Shopify and Shopware 5](https://t10.de/en/online-shops)
- [Shopware 5 end of life: what it means for your shop](https://t10.de/en/blog/shopware-5-end-of-support)
- [rollenrampe.de](https://t10.de/en/portfolio/rollenrampe-de)
- [The self-driving content machine](https://t10.de/en/blog/self-driving-content-machine)
- [Ordering promotional material without losing control](https://t10.de/en/blog/promo-material-ordering-pharma)
- [total10 - software for e-commerce and pharma](https://t10.de/en/)
- [E-commerce for SMEs: shops, content, AI](https://t10.de/en/ecommerce)
- [Bespoke software & business apps with Symfony](https://t10.de/en/symfony-development)
- [AI product copy and SEO content with RAG](https://t10.de/en/seo)

## Sources

1. [Impressum der shopware AG](https://www.shopware.com/de/impressum/), shopware AG, accessed 2026-11-07
2. [Shopware 5 - so geht es weiter (16.08.2022, Michael Telgmann)](https://www.shopware.com/de/news/shopware-5-so-geht-es-weiter/), shopware AG, accessed 2026-11-07
3. [Unternehmen](https://www.shopware.com/de/unternehmen/), shopware AG, accessed 2026-11-07
4. [Startseite shopware.com/de](https://www.shopware.com/de/), shopware AG, accessed 2026-11-07
5. [Migration: Systemvoraussetzungen](https://docs.shopware.com/de/migration-de/Systemvoraussetzungen), shopware AG (Shopware Dokumentation), accessed 2026-11-07