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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.
According to the draft EDPB Recommendations 2/2025, customers should as a rule be able to order without an account. The article puts the non-binding draft into context, shows the justifiable exceptions up to closed B2B user groups and describes the implementation in Shopware.
Direct debit, invoice, PayPal or card: what a payment method costs a shop is not found in any single fee table. The article shows how online revenue splits across payment methods, which cost components belong to each, what may be passed on to customers and how shops calculate the cost per payment method themselves.
A third of Black Friday and Cyber Week shoppers use the deals mainly to buy gifts (Bitkom). This guide shows how gift wrapping, a gift message, a second delivery address and a receipt without prices get into the checkout, and what the law, the warehouse and Shopware require.
Parcel shops and parcel lockers as a delivery address are quick to promise and rarely built cleanly. This article covers location search, clean address data, handover to the shipping integration and ERP, accessibility and the edge cases to settle before launch.
A customer proves their age without leaving a date of birth behind. What Regulation (EU) 2024/1183 asks of the shop, which deadlines are running and where the request fits into the ordering path.
As soon as an item exceeds the limits of automated parcel sorting, more changes than the shipping price. This guide shows how to model bulky goods and freight shipping end to end, from the item master through the shipping method matrix to delivery notification, delivery depth and transport damage.
Magecart attacks are rising sharply in 2026 and target the payment page. This guide shows how a skimmer reaches the checkout, how to spot a compromise and how to protect checkout integrity with a script inventory, Content Security Policy and Subresource Integrity – including PCI DSS requirements 6.4.3 and 11.6.1.
ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity increasingly add to cart themselves. How to operationalize product data, availability and checkout for the agentic commerce sales channel.
The pre-ticked box brings short-term revenue and long-term trouble. Which checkout patterns count as misleading, what works instead, and how to review your own process for fairness.
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