Nintex 2013 End of Life: Migration Guide & Impact

Deadlines have a way of creeping up. One quarter is a distant date on a roadmap, the next it is three months away and your workflows are still running on a platform with no vendor support.

Microsoft has been retiring legacy workflow infrastructure in stages for years. SharePoint 2010 Workflows went end of life in 2020. SharePoint 2013 Workflows are next. On April 2, 2026, Microsoft permanently retired the SharePoint 2013 workflow engine in Microsoft 365, with no extensions and no grace period. Nintex Workflow for Office 365 lost support on December 31, 2025, and will stop functioning entirely when that engine is switched off.

What was once a productivity tool becomes a liability: a source of security exposure, compliance risk, and operational uncertainty. 

The Nintex SharePoint 2013 End Of Life At A Glance

Here is a quick summary of what the timeline means in practice:

• Workflows will no longer run in Microsoft 365 after April 2, 2026
• No lift-and-shift migration to Nintex Automation Cloud is available
• Forms and workflows must be rebuilt on a new platform
  
  

Approaching this deadline as more than a compliance task helps you get real value from the change. You already need to invest time and effort, so it makes sense to improve how your workflows run, not just replace what you had.

Moving to a modern, cloud-ready platform helps you reduce technical debt, improve reliability, and build workflows that scale with your needs. The deadline may force the move, but how you use it can shape your long-term efficiency.

Understand the Impact of Nintex's End of Life: How Will It Affect You?

Without ongoing maintenance, vulnerabilities go unaddressed, system failures become harder to resolve, and any workflow disruption has no vendor support to fall back on.

Compliance exposure also grows over time, as unsupported software is increasingly difficult to justify under audit or regulatory scrutiny. Workflows that have not been migrated off the platform by April 2026 face the real risk of breaking entirely, with no path to a fix.

Why must you migrate?

Staying on an unsupported platform is not a neutral choice. The risks accumulate quietly at first, then compound quickly as the deadline passes and there is no longer a safety net in place.

Security vulnerabilities will go unaddressed

Once end of life is reached, Nintex will no longer issue security patches or updates. Any vulnerabilities that emerge after April 2026 remain open, leaving workflows and the data they handle exposed.

Technical support disappears entirely

No vendor assistance is available for unsupported software. When something breaks, the burden of diagnosis and resolution falls entirely on internal teams, with no official tooling or guidance to draw on.

Compliance becomes harder to defend

Regulators and auditors increasingly scrutinize unsupported software in workflow environments. Running business-critical processes on an end-of-life platform is difficult to justify under most compliance frameworks.

Workflow failures lead to operational downtime

Without ongoing maintenance, the risk of system failures grows over time. Disruptions that would previously have been patched quickly can cascade into prolonged downtime and manual workarounds.

Delayed action shrinks your options

Organizations that wait until the final months face compressed timelines and higher implementation pressure. Starting early means more time to evaluate Nintex alternatives, plan the migration properly, and avoid a rushed, like-for-like replacement.

How Can You Prepare For This Migration (Without Losing Your Mind)

A successful migration does not start with picking a new platform. It starts with understanding what you have, what needs to move, and what needs to change. Here is how to approach it.

Step 1. Audit your existing workflows.

Take stock of every workflow currently running on Nintex or SharePoint 2013. Note which ones are business-critical, which are rarely used, and which may no longer be needed at all. A clear picture of what you have makes every decision after this one easier.

Step 2. Assess complexity and dependencies.

Some workflows are straightforward to move. Others have custom logic, integrations, or dependencies that need more thought. Knowing where the complexity sits helps you sequence the migration sensibly and avoid surprises mid-project.

Step 3. Define what you actually need from a new platform.

Before you evaluate options, get clear on what your workflows need to do. Talk to the people who use them daily. You may find requirements that were never met by the legacy setup, or workarounds that have quietly become part of the process.

Step 4. Upgrade to a modern, cloud-ready platform.

Moving to a modern platform is not just a technical decision; it is a business one. Tools like FlowForma are purpose-built for exactly this moment: no-code, natively integrated with Microsoft 365, and designed to make your workflows faster to build, easier to manage, and simpler to scale as your needs evolve.

Step 5. Plan for adoption, not just implementation.

New tooling only delivers value if your team actually uses it. Communicate the change early, involve key users in testing, and ensure training is part of your project plan from the start.

Step 6. Work backwards from the deadline.

April 2026 was the hard stop. You would have needed to work backwards from that date, accounting for discovery, build, testing, and rollout. Leaving room for the unexpected; complex migrations rarely go exactly to plan.

How Long Does a Nintex Migration to FlowForma Take?

Migration timelines depend on the complexity of your existing Nintex estate, but in practice, organizations can start seeing meaningful progress within weeks rather than months. The key is that you’re not starting from scratch or doing it alone.

With a dedicated migration expert who understands both Nintex and FlowForma, you get hands-on guidance from assessment through to go-live, helping you prioritise the right processes and avoid unnecessary rework.

A typical acceleration path includes a focused 2-day training session where your builders learn how to rapidly replicate Nintex workflows in FlowForma using the power of the FlowForma Copilot, business rules, and no-code logic.

This is often followed by structured onboarding sessions delivered over the first 6 weeks, covering architecture, permissions, and best-practice setup, while your team begins rebuilding simpler workflows immediately.

This dual-track approach means you’re learning and delivering in parallel, rather than waiting for a full migration project to complete.

For more complex environments, migration is usually delivered in phases. Priority workflows are fast-tracked using expert-led support and migration credits, ensuring your most business-critical processes are moved first and optimized early.

Meanwhile, additional processes are rolled out in batches, allowing for controlled go-lives, reduced risk, and continuous improvement.

Making the switch from Nintex doesn’t need to be disruptive, we provide everything needed, including migration experts and migration credits to move quickly, with structure, support, and the flexibility to scale at your own pace.

Customer Story:  U.S. County Government Body Moves from Nintex to FlowForma

A U.S. county government recently undertook a major workflow modernization initiative as part of its transition to SharePoint Online and broader digital transformation programme. Like many public sector organizations, it had previously relied on legacy Nintex workflows to automate key processes such as travel requests, approvals, and internal administrative tasks.

However, over time, the existing platform no longer met the organization’s evolving requirements for usability, scalability, and alignment with newer cloud-based infrastructure.

To support this shift, the county selected FlowForma as its replacement workflow automation platform. The migration has progressed quickly, with over 25 processes already rebuilt and moved into production within just two months.

This rapid delivery has enabled the organization to maintain business continuity while modernising its workflows in parallel, replacing legacy Nintex-based processes with a more scalable, no-code approach. As a result, teams across multiple departments are now benefiting from improved visibility, reduced manual effort, and faster, more consistent execution of everyday processes.

Customer Story: How Morley College Replaced Nintex and InfoPath with FlowForma

Another FlowForma customer Will Johnson of Morley College London, who migrated from InfoPath and Nintex to FlowForma, said "With FlowForma, we didn't just replace InfoPath and Nintex, we improved." Watch Will's short story above.

Morley College London replaced heavily cutomized InfoPath and Nintex solutions with FlowForma Process Automation, enabling no-code process automation across the campus in a modern, scalable and futureproof way.

Migrate from Nintex to FlowForma in a breeze

When Nintex users face end of life, the path Nintex points to is Nintex Automation Cloud: their own next-generation platform. And while staying within the Nintex ecosystem might seem like the easiest route, it is worth pausing before you follow that path automatically.

Nintex’s K2 platform

Staying within the Nintex ecosystem and upgrading to K2 is one option, but it comes with a significantly higher cost and a more complex platform that takes time to learn and deploy. For many organizations, it solves the deadline problem without addressing the underlying one.

FlowForma is purpose-built for Microsoft 365, no-code by design, and AI-powered from the ground up. Your team can migrate existing processes and modernize them at the same time, without the overhead or complexity of a heavy enterprise platform.

Nintex Automation K2 vs FlowForma: A Quick Overview

Both platforms can handle complex workflows, but the experience of building, managing, and scaling on each one is quite different. Here is how they compare across the areas that matter most to your team.

Why migrating to FlowForma Process Automation is the best option

Here’s what FlowForma brings to the table:

It is genuinely no-code

Your business teams can build, test, and iterate on workflows without waiting for developer time or writing a single line of code. FlowForma's drag-and-drop form and workflow builder puts process ownership where it belongs: with the people who actually run the processes.

AI is built in, not bolted on

FlowForma's AI Copilot lets you create a fully functional workflow in minutes by uploading a process document, diagram, or even a text description. Just elaborate your process with conditions, logic, rules, triggers, and other modifications, and FlowForma AI Copilot will take it from there.

Here’s a demo explaining how to automate onboarding using FlowForma AI Copilot.The Discovery Agent turns conversations and meeting notes into ready-to-run processes.

The AI Agent handles tasks like reading documents, extracting data, and validating content automatically. Migrating is not just a technology change; it's an upgrade in how your team works.

Your data stays in your environment

FlowForma runs natively within your Microsoft 365 and SharePoint tenancy. Your data never leaves your own environment, which matters for compliance, security, and data governance. There’s no separate system to sync with and no external database holding your data.

For highly regulated and security-conscious industries, that’s a big tick box. It means your data stays where your governance, security, and compliance policies already live, within Microsoft.

It is also simpler from an IT perspective. Less integration overhead, fewer security concerns to consider, and a clearer audit trail because everything lives in the same ecosystem you already manage.

You get full visibility across every process

FlowForma Insights gives you real-time dashboards and reporting built directly into the platform. No third-party tools, no extra configuration.

FlowForma AI-powered insights

You can track process performance, identify bottlenecks, and report on outcomes from day one.

External stakeholders can be part of your workflows

With FlowForma Engage, you can extend your internal processes to customers, suppliers, and partners, without giving them access to your internal systems.

Document generation is handled automatically

FlowForma lets you generate professionally formatted documents at scale directly from your workflow data, replacing the manual effort that often sits at the end of critical business processes.

Compliance is built into the platform

Every process run in FlowForma automatically generates a full audit trail, providing the traceability you need to meet regulatory requirements without any additional setup.

For organizations coming off Nintex, FlowForma offers continuity where it counts and meaningful improvement everywhere else.

Responsive and dedicated customer support

When evaluating any platform, the quality of support behind it matters just as much as the product itself. A great tool is only as valuable as the team helping you get the most out of it.

FlowForma's Customer Success Team is consistently praised by customers for their five-star support (as said by our users).

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Hear what customers have to say about their experience—watch this video to browse through our customer stories.

FlowForma’s customer success stories

Let FlowForma Power Your Next Generation of Workflows

The April 2026 was fixed, but what you build on the other side of it is entirely your choice. FlowForma gives your organization a no-code, AI-powered workflow platform that runs natively in Microsoft 365, keeps your data secure within your own environment, and empowers your teams to build and scale processes without depending on developers or external consultants.

Moving off SharePoint 2013 Workflows and Nintex On-Premise is not just a technical necessity. For organizations that approach it the right way, it is a genuine opportunity to modernize how work gets done.

Our team is ready to help you evaluate whether FlowForma is the right fit and walk you through every step of the migration with dedicated support behind you.

Book a meeting with our migrations experts to discuss migration paths from legacy platforms.