Knowledge: E-Commerce

E-Commerce

B2B Commerce

B2B commerce (business-to-business commerce) refers to electronic trade between companies – for example via online shops, customer portals, punchout catalogues or EDI connections. In contrast to B2C, requirements are shaped by customer-specific conditions, approval workflows and deep ERP integration.

E-Commerce

Checkout Optimization

Checkout optimization covers all measures that make an online shop's ordering process – from cart to order confirmation – faster, simpler and more trustworthy. The goal is to reduce purchase abandonment and increase the conversion rate.

E-Commerce

Headless Commerce

Headless commerce describes an e-commerce architecture in which the frontend (presentation layer) is decoupled from the commerce backend, with both communicating exclusively via APIs. As a result, the frontend can be built with any technology and evolved independently of the shop system.

E-Commerce

PIM (Product Information Management)

A PIM system (Product Information Management) is central software for managing, enriching and distributing product information such as descriptions, attributes, media and translations. It supplies connected channels – such as the online shop, marketplaces, catalogues and data feeds – with consistent product data.

E-Commerce

Shopware 6

Shopware 6 is an e-commerce system developed in Germany, built on the PHP framework Symfony with an API-first architecture. It is available as an open-source edition as well as in commercial plans and is one of the widely used shop systems among mid-sized businesses in German-speaking markets.

E-Commerce

ZUGFeRD

ZUGFeRD (Zentraler User Guide des Forums elektronische Rechnung Deutschland) is a hybrid format for electronic invoices that combines a human-readable PDF/A-3 file with structured XML invoice data. From version 2.x onwards, the format is aligned with the European standard EN 16931.

E-Commerce

E-Commerce

B2B Commerce

Checkout Optimization

Headless Commerce

PIM (Product Information Management)

Shopware 6

ZUGFeRD

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