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Since version 6.6.10.0, Shopware has generated ZUGFeRD e-invoices as a standard feature, and since 6.7.9.0 credit notes and cancellation invoices as well (Shopware). This post shows which data ends up in the XML, how the flow automates generation and where an addition is needed before the 2027 deadline: routing ID, Peppol, ERP.
Orders by phone, email or from a trade fair can be created directly in the Shopware administration. This guide covers the workflow, prices and tax per customer group, payment method and team permissions – and what to consider legally with the new order confirmation option in Shopware 6.7.15.0 (Shopware release news).
One shifted comma and the item costs a hundredth of its price. This article explains when the contract is formed in an online shop, when rescission under Section 119 BGB holds, what the customer must be compensated for and how checks in the price import catch such errors before Black Week.
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.
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.
The data processing agreement is signed, and in many shops that is where processor management ends. Which control duties Article 28 GDPR creates, why sub-processors belong in the picture and which records hold up when a supervisory authority asks.
A framework agreement lives on its call-offs, not on its signature. The four quantities a call-off contract needs and how they become fields in the shop.
Public-sector templates do not fit: for shops the mandatory entries are called information on accessibility and sit in Annex 3 BFSG. What belongs in it, where the page sits and which two routes are open to consumers.
A customer from Belgium ends up in the Belgian version automatically and cannot get back. What Articles 3, 4 and 5 of Regulation (EU) 2018/302 require – and where shops break.
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