We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to succeed in ecommerce. That’s why we invest heavily in our open-source core, ensuring that businesses of all sizes can build, scale, and innovate on a powerful, flexible foundation. Every time a new user chooses our free Community Edition, it strengthens the ecosystem and reinforces the power of collaboration. The Fair Usage Policy helps keep this ecosystem balanced, ensuring that merchants, developers, and partners can grow together in a sustainable way.

Community Edition is the base of all Shopware plans. If you want to scale up and grow faster with an advanced feature set and expert support by your side, explore our plans for your business now.
Start your journey with Shopware by downloading our free, open-source Community Edition and installing it on your PC, Mac, Linux, hosting environment, or virtual machine. Follow our detailed installation guide, which walks you through every essential step to ensure a smooth, systematic, and successful Shopware 6 setup.
Find everything you need in our developer documentation. Whether you're just getting started or diving deeper, our comprehensive documentation offers step-by-step guidance to help you create outstanding online stores.
You’ll already find thousands of interfaces for various areas such as payment, shipping, and ERP available in the Shopware Store. However, thanks to our API-first approach, you can also connect other systems quickly and easily. This enables the seamless integration of your unique system environment into your online store.
Leverage Shopware's extension APIs to build unique extensions that boost merchants' businesses. Use the powerful plugin system to build highly custom extensions or apps using the platform of your choice.
Shared knowledge fosters a dynamic, highly engaged, and ever expanding community. Stack Overflow is our central hub for continuous swarm knowledge. This is further complemented by the Shopware documentation and training, as well as the countless blog posts, meetups, and other content created by the community.
If you have questions about Shopware and related topics, then the community forum is the right place for you!
Developers around the world contribute to Shopware's source code, sharing their work and innovations with the entire community. By contributing your ideas and innovations to our open-source platform, you can make a real impact and leave your mark. Be part of something bigger—your contributions can inspire and empower businesses worldwide. Let’s build the future of Shopware together!
The engagement and the support of the Shopware community is outstanding. Every day, brilliant ideas, content, and code drive our open-source platform forward. Shopware’s success is thanks in part to the hard work and talent of the community. Words cannot express our gratitude. We cannot thank you enough.






