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Here you find our articles about online shops, websites and web tech. We explain new rules, tools and good ways of working. You can filter the articles by topic. At the top of an article you find a short version in plain words. Ask us if something is still not clear.
39 percent of the wholesalers and manufacturers surveyed name manual quote and order entry as one of the biggest brakes on sales (ECC KÖLN). This guide shows how AI reads orders from email, PDF and scans, matches them against customer and item master data, checks them with fixed rules and creates them in the ERP as orders awaiting approval.
From e-invoicing in January to the forced labor ban in December: this deadline calendar sorts the legal changes of 2027 for online shops by key date and who is affected, names the primary source for each date and shows how the obligations translate into product data, supplier data and budget planning.
According to the release calendar, Shopware 6.5 receives security fixes until the end of February 2027, and only through the security plugin, which does not cover flaws in Symfony and Twig. The article puts the deadline into context, shows the security releases of August and September 2026 and describes the route via 6.6 to 6.7 by the end of February.
A shop chatbot is only as current as its sources. How to maintain delivery times, return rules and promotions with validity dates, cite the source in every answer and prepare for the holiday season.
How fashion shops build size charts by brand and cut, condense return reasons into a fit scale and pass sizes cleanly to the product feed – with sourced figures and without promises about effects.
After 31 December 2026, the PHP project no longer publishes security fixes for PHP 8.2 (php.net). This guide shows how WordPress websites and WordPress shops can move to PHP 8.3 or 8.4 before the end of the year: inventory, compatibility check, staging test and switch.
Since 1 July 2026, retailers obliged to take back old appliances no longer have a transition period. Which symbol the ElektroG requires in online shops, where it belongs, what remains open for smaller shops and how symbol, take-back information and collection are generated from product data in Shopware.
Customer prices belong behind the login, the product page does not. How wholesale shops keep their range public for search engines, which structured data is allowed without a price, why paywall markup is no way out and how the German Price Indication Ordinance fits in.
Black Friday falls on 27 November 2026. A virtual waiting room lets visitors in, in an orderly sequence and at the pace of the shop. Where it sits technically, which status codes it sends and why robots.txt and the payment return never belong in the queue.
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