Shopware Apps vs. Plugins: The Right Architecture
App system or classic plugin? When API and webhooks are the right choice, when core access is indispensable – and how to find the right extension strategy for your Shopware shop.
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App system or classic plugin? When API and webhooks are the right choice, when core access is indispensable – and how to find the right extension strategy for your Shopware shop.
Since December 13, 2024, the GPSR requires four mandatory details per product listing. Here is how to implement them cleanly in Shopware and minimize warning-letter risk.
Date of application 27 Sept 2026: an online shop must show the official notice on the legal guarantee prominently and unchanged. How we set it up with the core feature of Shopware 6.7.14.
Guided buying flags preferred products and suppliers and enforces procurement compliance without micromanaging staff. Here is how we map the control framework in the Shopware B2B component system.
From Shopware 6.7, Store API endpoints are cacheable. Avoid N+1 problems in Nuxt, set client caching correctly and use stale-while-revalidate.
The June 2026 release modernizes the classic storefront: a Vite dev server without a proxy, Twig UX components, theme values as native CSS custom properties and a global window.Shopware event system. What it means for your theme.
Local prices instead of foreign currency: how to handle exchange rates, price rounding and per-country tax in Shopware to reduce cross-border cart abandonment.
Product bundles and set articles are among the most direct levers in e-commerce for increasing average order value (AOV) – without acquiring new customers.
A wishlist is more than a nice extra: as a save feature without login, with reminder logic and analytics it becomes a conversion and retention lever.
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