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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.

15 min read

Stocktaking in a live shop: counting inventory at year end

German commercial law allows four stocktaking procedures, and each one asks something different of the shop. What the stock snapshot, the blocking logic and the write-back have to deliver so the count matches the balance sheet date.

16 min read

BMEcat and ETIM: Product Catalogs for B2B Buyers

A valid catalog file is not yet a maintained assortment. What BMEcat governs, what ETIM describes and which checks belong before the first write run.

19 min read

Connect a POS system to your shop: stock and receipts

Two channels sell the same goods, yet each one keeps its own books. How stock, receipts and the journal come together, which obligations the till brings along, and where the rebuild tends to fail in practice.

14 min read

Click and Collect: Store Pickup as a Considered Process

Click and collect is more than a checkbox in the cart. This article describes reservation windows, pickup deadlines, cancellation, notifications, till integration and partial pickup as one coherent process.

11 min read

Real-Time Inventory Sync: Stop Multichannel Overselling

Separate systems and a nightly reconciliation lead to overselling and duplicate data-keeping. This guide shows how an event-driven real-time inventory sync between ERP, shop and marketplaces keeps stock consistent across all channels.

12 min read

Customer Prices from the ERP: Volume Tiers in B2B Shop

B2B buyers expect their negotiated price with volume tiers right after login. This guide shows how customer groups and ERP price lists are mirrored into the shop in real time – without price drift between ERP and shop.

11 min read

Google Merchant API 2026: Content API Sunset and Feed Rules

On August 18, 2026, Google sunset the Content API for Shopping, and since September 1, 2026, requests without an extension have been failing intermittently. In parallel, the feed rules for images, shipping and video are tightening. This guide sorts out the dates and shows how to switch your product feeds to the Merchant API and maintain them for the future.

12 min read

Connect SAP Business One to Shopware: A Guide

SAP Business One counts more than 83,000 customers and 1.2 million users in over 170 countries (SAP). How to connect this midmarket ERP to Shopware bidirectionally – articles, prices, stock, orders and documents via Service Layer, DI-API and middleware.