In the article below, we describe the guts and bones of Shopware 6. You will learn what technologies empower the system, bringing its most fine features to life. So, what is Shopware built on? What is its tech stack? Let’s find the answer. Continue Reading
Is Shopware a CMS you will ask? On a global scale, it is an e-commerce system available either in the cloud or on-premise depending on the edition (we describe free and paid editions in our Ins & Outs of Shopware Pricing). However, every e-commerce platform is bound to content management capabilities. Otherwise, what’s in it for us? In the article below, we discuss why Shopware is a CMS, shed light upon whether Shopware CMS is free or not, and highlight what paid Shopware CMS options are available. Continue Reading
Shopware is a new trending e-commerce platform that tends to take a position that Magento leaves moving towards big corporate clients. The balance of e-commerce forces is gradually changing and we are here to record the shift and help you avoid possible difficulties associated with this process. Below, we focus upon the Shopware pricing for all the available editions. It varies between free versions and options that cost one a pretty penny. Let’s see how much money you need to run e-commerce websites based on different Shopware versions and what features you get. You will also learn what Shopware editions are available. Continue Reading
Shopware is working incredibly hard to win over merchants not only in Germany, where it originates from a small and unknown project, but also all over the globe. In the following article, we shed light upon the e-commerce platform, which gains more and more market share across the EU countries. You will learn what Shopware is and why it is worth planning your migration to Shopware 6 from other e-commerce platforms.
Note that this article starts the series of Shopware cookbook blog posts dedicated to the platform. We’ve already explored the administration interface of its cloud version, and now it’s time to provide more facts about the system. So, what is Shopware? Continue Reading
Today, we are going to talk about sitemaps in Shopware 6. Different e-commerce systems provide unique ways to manage this instrument. However, all of them leverage the mighty instrument. As a store manager, you can always customize it to make your store look more attractive for search bots and customers. What about Shopware, you willask? By default, it generates a standard sitemap, compresses it, and then caches it in the file system. Furthermore, your e-commerce website offers advanced support for shops with many products and categories when it comes to the sitemap. Shopware splits the corresponding file into several parts and lets you generate them in the background. Note that there is no way to create a visitor sitemap since the index file is generated for SEO purposes only. In the article below, we describe how to find Sitemap settings in Shopware 6. After that, you will discover several ways of managing your Shopware 6 sitemap. For more tech-savvy users, we provide a brief description of how to add custom sitemap entries in Shopware 6.
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Flexibility in every aspect of your e-commerce website simplifies not only your daily routine but also the shopping experience of your prospects. For instance, you want to apply different scale units, such as bottles, packs of bottles, and barrels, to your products. If your e-commerce platform doesn’t let you do that, it is necessary to create numerous different products with similar characteristics except for the scale units. As for Shopware 6, it lets you create custom scale units for your products. Thus, you can easily apply such scale units as bottles, packs of bottles, and barrels to your products, achieving outstanding flexibility. In the article below, we explore the Shopware 6 Scale Units screen in settings. You will learn how to manage the existing records as well as add new scale units in Shopware 6.
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It is no longer necessary to explain how important different salutations are. You either keep abreast with the times or get disrespect from lots of potential customers. Shopware 6 lets you choose the first path. The system provides the ability to create custom salutations and add them to the registration form so that your customers can choose one that suits them. In the article below, you will find how to find the Shopware 6 Salutations screen in settings. We described how to manage the existing records as well as add new salutations in Shopware 6.
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What are the core requirements for extending your e-commerce business abroad? First of all, it is the support for multiple languages and currencies. However, there is one more vital factor. Your website should cope with foreign legislation in general and taxes in particular. And Shopware 6 perfectly suits this demand. It lets you create different tax rates for your products and assign them to countries. In the following article, we shed light on where the Shopware 6 tax settings are situated. After that, you will find out how to manage the existing tax rates as well as add new tax rates in Shopware 6.
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Every e-commerce platform offers tools that let you treat customers according to their behavior. Usually, you create a set of rules. If the specific conditions are met, a customer gets a special proposition. Below, we describe one of Shopware’s core instruments that offer similar functionality – Rule Builder. The tool is used for creating specific rules that impact the way multiple areas of your storefront behave. Below, we shed light on how to find Shopware 6 Rule Builder. Besides, you will learn how to create rules in Shopware 6 to organize the frontend workflow. We explain general settings as well as specific conditions that you can build within the instrument. Import/export tips along with questions/answers are available below. Continue Reading
By default, Shopware 6 offers several useful settings that dramatically improve the visibility of your e-commerce website from the perspective of search engines. It would be a great mistake if you don’t leverage them. But what should you do first? Below, we explore the SEO settings of Shopware 6. You will learn how to find the corresponding configuration page and what optimizations it contains. We shed light on SEO-URL templates, describe other SEO settings, and explore how to rebuild the SEO index in Shopware 6. Also, some import/export recommendations, as well as an FAQ section, are available below. And don’t miss this Product Page SEO Checklist, It describes how to enhance the appearance of your store pages among search results.
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