The blog is your one-stop for getting insight into the Shopware universe, news about our products, updates for developers, and tips and tricks for online merchants and anyone passionate about ecommerce.
New internal structures, better processes and one additional completed translation - read more about Shopware's fabulous month in November on Crowdin!
Eleven years after PHP5 was released, the brand-new version of PHP appears yesterday – called PHP7 as voted on by the community. Shopware 5.1 is already compatible with PHP7, making it one of the first shop systems to offer the completely redesigned programming language.
Part two of a series that uncovers the SEO power of Shopware 5 - the ideal system for building a Google-friendly online shop.
SEO is here to stay. As one of the most crucial aspects of your online shop, it's important that your shop software supports you in every angle so that you can climb to the top of the search results.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are becoming an increasingly popular events in European retail. Simon Gall joins Shopware to shed some light on the marketing potential of this season.
JACQUES LEMANS, one of the most well known manufacturers of watches, relaunched a stylish and chiconline shop using Shopware 5 as the basis. Are you ready for a true online shopping experience?
Shopware's payment partner, PAYMILL, offers their professional advice on integrating the appropriate payment options for your online shop. From integration to support, PAYMILL's expert services can be trusted to help enhance your shop now and in the future.
As an open source project, we are no stranger to public involvement. That's why we are an open project on Crowdin, which allwos our users and community to lend their language skills to the complete translation of our software. This is the October report of the project.
“Thoughts are free” – in order to properly live up to this simple and effective motto, within the past year we organized our own in-house Think Tanks. This topic of our lastest Think Tank concerned the future of the B2B sector.
We are more than honored to announce that Shopware is the recipient of the "Technology Fast 50 Award" from Deloitte. Every year, this coveted award is given to the fastest growing and most promising companies from the technology sector.
Find out now what the new rating rules for extensions in Community Store are which we want to achieve an even higher level of quality with ratings and plugins with.
How to prepare your online shop for holiday season? Nosto, Shopware partner and world´s fastest growing personalization solution, is presenting you five quick wins to set up your shop. Discover now.
The most wonderful time of the year is approaching (along with the madness of holiday shopping)! Fortunately we are gearing you up with the most powerful tools for making the most of this season.
Digital Publishing is a new feature that you can look forward to with our latest version, Shopware 5.1. Digital Publishing in an intuitive tool that lets you design and create dynamic banners, directly from your Shopware backend.
With the release of Shopware 5.1, Shopware has big plans for PHP fans: we will be upgrading to PHP 7, thus offering a completely more robust and speedy online shop solution. Tests have already confirmed a 50% increase in performance!
September marked Shopware's first complete month as a public project on Crowdin. We couldn't be more satisfied with the results. We will be posting a monthly progress report, including well-deserved shout-outs to our incomparable contributors.
On the fifth Shopware Community Day on Friday, September 4th, 2014, Shopware CEO Stefan Hamann highlighted the latest features of Shopware 5.1 in his opening keynote. One of these features, Product Streams, was designed to benefit retailers in a particularly special way.
Help potential buyers find items more easily and, in turn, increase your turnover. Smart Search is fault-tolerant and returns accurate results even if the search term was entered with spelling errors, typos, or other combinations of words.
If you’ve been to the grocery store this week, odds are a chocolate Santa or gingerbread man made you murmur “Jiminy Christmas, it’s too soon!” We think so too. But do you know what it’s not too soon for? Preparing your holiday shop for the impending holiday madness.
Google's "Mobilegeddon" update means sink or swim for your online shop. Luckily, fully responsive and easy to customize come hand-in-hand with Shopware's responsive template.
Online shops with complex requirements tend to require more plugins. Since Shopware is modular, any number of plugins can be added in order to realize individual concepts. Whether three plugins or three hundred, we wanted to make it as easy as possible to manage your extensions.
Cramer is the Head of Marketing at Borussia Dortmund; one of the most successful football clubs in Germany’s league history. Located in Dortmund, the team boasts one of the largest fan bases in the world. Their online fan shop uses Shopware 5 as a software basis.
Today’s blog post is meant to spark a twinkle in the eyes of the developers who work with Shopware on the daily. That’s because with the release of Shopware 5, we had the opportunity to refactor our core classes.
Out of the box, Shopware 5 offers a modern, fully responsive theme, which was designed using the so-called “Mobile First” approach as a basis. We wanted to make it as easy as possible for you to make changes to your theme, which is why we created the Theme Manager.
Get personal with our new partner, Nosto, and learn about the power packed behind personalization. With a free plugin in the Shopware Community Store, plus a complimentary webinar, you have everything you need to start creating enjoyable shopping experiences.
Come meet Shopware in person at the 2015 Copernica Summit and hear our specialist, Ruben, speak about the potential behind storytelling, and how this is relevant for the success of your online shop.
This is a part of the Shopware 5 series, which uncovers some of the brand-new features and innovations that make Shopware 5 the ideal platform for successful online shops.
Shopware is now a public project on Crowdin, a platform where anyone is free to contribute translations and further the localisation of the software.
You spoke, and we listened. We built a free plugin that allows shop owners to generage orders directly from their Shopware backend. Now you can easily process all orders that come through means other than your online shop.
“What do you mean your software is free?” We get asked this a lot. We hear the skepticism in your voice; we see your defensive body language. We understand your apprehension. Now we want to bust the myth that “nothing in life comes free”.
Get started in ecommerce with a trusted solution that is built to thrive in the long term. Free of charge and flexible – there are absolutely no costs until you generate sales. With a month to month contract, you benefit from maximum cost control and are free cancel your contract at any time.
Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions or would like to speak to us personally. We'll get back to you shortly!
