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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.

12 min read

Packaging Register 2026: LUCID Obligation for Shops

Registration, system participation, data reporting, completeness declaration: the four LUCID duties – and what changes with the VerpackDG on 12 Aug 2026.

18 min read

B2G Commerce: Selling to Public Sector Buyers

Public authorities, hospitals and universities buy through framework contracts and electronic procurement channels. What your B2B shop has to deliver technically – from the Leitweg-ID to an accessible ordering interface.

17 min read

Battery Regulation 2026: Duties for Online Shops

The BattDG brings new registration, notice and take-back duties for batteries. Here is how to model the details as an attribute set in your shop – including the battery passport outlook for 2027.

17 min read

AI Crawler Control: A Compliant TDM Opt-Out in 2026

Text and data mining is permitted unless a machine-readable reservation exists. How shops declare the TDM opt-out in three places – without accidentally blocking retrieval crawlers too.

15 min read

Controlling AI Costs in E-Commerce: Tokens and Caching

A third of AI-using companies report higher costs than expected. That is rarely down to the price per token, but to context length, output length and call frequency. Seven levers and a worked example.

17 min read

Securing the Store API: Safer Headless Shop Operations

Headless moves business logic behind a public API. Here is how to review authorization, field rights, rate limits and access key hygiene systematically.

20 min read

Shopware Message Queue: Workers in Production

Late order mails, a stale search index, an outdated sitemap: how to move the Shopware message queue into production with CLI workers, separate queues and alerting.

18 min read

Shopware Cache Rework: Caching for Logged-In Customers

The storefront HTTP cache now works with login and a filled cart. How the sw-cache-hash works, what changes in invalidation and how to prepare extensions safely.

20 min read

MySQL 8.0 End of Life: Migrate Your Shop Database

With 8.0.46, support for MySQL 8.0 ends. Why the EOL database under your shop is first an audit problem – and how the move to 8.4 LTS works.