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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.

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Shop chatbot upkeep: keep delivery times and rules current

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.

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Size advice in fashion shops: size charts by brand and cut

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.

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Take-back symbol in online shops: ElektroG duty since July

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.

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Wholesale shop with login prices: still getting found

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.

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Black Friday Waiting Room: Managing Your Shop Under Load

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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Shopware 6.8 announced for 2027: prepare the upgrade now

Shopware plans the major version 6.8 for 2027. The time until then is enough to inventory custom plugins, migrate Symfony configuration in XML, work through deprecations and plan the PHP change as a separate step.

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hreflang for international shops: links and codes

Three language versions add up to nine annotations, and one missing entry makes the pair ineffective. How the annotation is built, which codes are valid, what x-default does and where automatic redirects meet a legal limit.

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Shipping costs in the shop: models, thresholds, calculation

The basket is full, then the shipping line appears – and the order is abandoned. How to derive model and threshold from shipment costs, basket distribution and contribution margin.