How to Edit a Menu Bar in Shopware 6

- E-Commerce, Shopware

In the following article, we provide an answer to a popular question about Shopware 6. Many merchants ask how to edit a menu bar in Shopware. We’ve discovered several ways how people do that. If you also have no idea how to change the appearance of frontend menus in Shopware or know only a single solution, you’ve come to the right place. Below, we describe the most popular methods that let you achieve the best appearance for your menu bars in Shopware 6. Continue Reading

How to Build a Shopping Feed in Shopware

- E-Commerce, Shopware

A product feed or shopping feed is a file that contains a list of products with the related data structured in a specific way that each item can be displayed, advertised, or compared after the file is uploaded to a sales channel. A shopping/product feed typically contains a product image, title, description, identifier, and attributes. However, the list of parameters stored in a data file may vary depending on its source. Let’s assume that you run an e-commerce website on Shopware 6 and connect it to external shopping channels. There are several ways to achieve this goal. Below, you will learn how to build a shopping feed in Shopware to connect your website to external marketplaces and other similar platforms that require your catalog data. But before going any further, let’s find out how product feeds work and what their purpose is. Continue Reading

Is Shopware Open Source? Brief History of Gained Flexibility

- E-Commerce, Shopware

The largest German e-commerce software provider starts a great expansion abroad, trying to drive Magento, Shopify, and other similar platforms out of the market. Will it succeed? Considering the current situation with Magento, it seems that Shopware has all chances to get many new customers all over the globe. Therefore, we’d like to introduce you to the platform via our blog. Since many people ask whether Shopware is open source or not, we’ve prepared a small exploration on the subject. So, is Shopware open source? Yes, it is, but things are not quite as they seem. Continue Reading

Shopware 6 CMS Basics

- E-Commerce, Shopware

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

Ins & Outs of Shopware Pricing: How much does Shopware cost?

- E-Commerce, Shopware

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

Your First Acquaintance With The Platform: What is Shopware?

- E-Commerce, Shopware

what is Shopware

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. 

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Exploring Shopware: Sitemap in Shopware 6 Settings

- E-Commerce, Shopware

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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Exploring Shopware: Scale Units in Shopware 6 Settings

- E-Commerce, Shopware

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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