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Shopware
Original author(s)shopware AG
Developer(s)shopware AG
Initial release2000
Stable release
6.6.1.2[1] Edit this on Wikidata
Repository
Written inPHP, JavaScript
Operating systemCross-platform
Available inEnglish, German
TypeE-commerce
LicenseMIT License and commercial licenses
Websitewww.shopware.com

Shopware is an open source e-commerce software written in PHP. The software is developed in Germany.[2][3]

History[edit]

Shopware AG was founded in Schöppingen, Germany in 2000 by brothers Stefan Hamann and Sebastian Hamann.[2]

The Community Edition was introduced in October 2010 based on Shopware 3,[4] making the source available.[5] With the release of Shopware 4 on August 28, 2012, the e-commerce platform became free and open-source software under the AGPL3 license,[6][7] forming the technical foundation for the commercial SaaS editions that include proprietary software plugins.[8]

Shopware at the Internet World trade fair in Munich, Germany in 2017.

In 2016, the company announced during its annual Shopware Community Day event that the source code of premium plugins would no longer be encrypted using the proprietary ionCube integration, with ionCube becoming optional in Shopware 5.2.[9] As of Shopware 5.5, support for ionCube and encrypted plugins was removed.[10]

Former Magento chief Ben Marks joined the Shopware team as Director of market development in 2021.[3] As of 2021, the company employs 250 people.[3]

In 2021, EHI Retail Institute reported Shopware reached 11.5% market share among top 1000 e-commerce sites in Germany, second after Magento.[11] By 2022, Shopware surpassed Magento and became market leader in Germany with 12.2% market share among top 1000 e-commerce sites.[12] An estimated 100,000 e-commerce companies use Shopware, generating a combined revenue of 12 billion Euro.[3]

In 2022, Shopware AG announced that it had received a €100 million investment from PayPal and Carlyle.[2] Furthermore the company opened its first office in New York City, USA.[13]

According to BuiltWith, 5% of online shopping sites in Germany are built with Shopware as of August 2023.[14] According to W3Tech, 0.2% of content-managed websites of the top 10 million websites worldwide are built with Shopware as of August 2023.[15]

Extensions[edit]

The official Shopware Shop registry features over 2,200 plugins as of July 2021,[16] including payment merchant integrations for PayPal and Stripe.[17] Developers can create their own plugins.[4][16][18]

Technology[edit]

Shopware 6 Administration.

Shopware is developed in the PHP programming language.[4] It requires a relational MySQL database.[18]

Shopware 4 and earlier were based on the Enlight framework, a proprietary e-commerce extension to the Zend Framework. Shopware 5 and later are based on the Symfony open-source framework.[19][20][10][18]

As of Shopware 5.4, installation of plugins can be managed via Composer.[21]

As of Shopware 5.5, Elasticsearch integration is supported by default for fast search functionality.[22]

Shopware 5 built its user interface using the Smarty template engine, jQuery, and Ext JS.[4]

Since Shopware 6, the Twig template engine is used instead with Bootstrap and jQuery for the shop frontend, and Vue.js for the administration frontend.[18][23] Since version 6.5, and the introduction of Bootrstrap 5 for the storefront, the dependency on jQuery has been removed. [24]

A Git repository is used for version control, which is also available on GitHub.[25]

Release history[edit]

Version 4[edit]

Backend with statistics, product window, and user roles in windows
Web interface of Shopware 4.0 backend. Displaying statistics, product information, and user roles.

With the release of Shopware 4.0 on August 28, 2012, the software was placed under the AGPL license, becoming free and open-source software.[6][7][26][27] Key changes included:

  • A media manager centrally manages images, videos, and other media through drag-and-drop.[26]
  • A REST API provides a collection of functions for connecting external software.[26]
  • The speed of the Community and Professional Editions backend and frontend was improved,[28] and support was added for reverse proxy caching such as Varnish.[26]

Version 6[edit]

First Run Wizard in the Shopware 6.

In May 2019, a developer preview of Shopware 6 was presented at the annual Shopware Community Day event.[23][29] Shopware 6.0 was released later that year.[30] The release is a complete rewrite of the software,[29][31] from the monolithic codebase of Shopware 5 to a modular approach, with a headless backend API separate from its frontend.[31][32]

There is no in-place upgrade from Shopware 5 to Shopware 6.[33] Data can be migrated from a Shopware 5 online shop to a new Shopware 6 instance.[31][33] Plugins are not compatible. Shopware 5 is supported with bug fixes until 2023 and security patches until 2024.[31][33]

Key changes included:

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Release 6.6.1.2". 29 April 2024. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
  2. ^ a b c Lunden, Ingrid (2022-02-08). "Shopware, an e-commerce platform that powers 100K brands, raises its first outside funding: $100M from PayPal and Carlyle". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  3. ^ a b c d Staff Writers (2021-03-09). "Former Magento Chief Evangelist Ben Marks joins Shopware as Director - Retail Gazette". retailgazette.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  4. ^ a b c d "Module für PHP-basierte E-Commerce-Systeme schreiben Fortsetzung, Teil 8". IT-Republik (in German). PHP Magazin. 2012-03-15. Archived from the original on 2012-11-27. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
  5. ^ "Shopware 3.5 Download Archive". shopware.de. 2011-05-11. Archived from the original on 2011-05-11. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  6. ^ a b "Shopware bringt Version 4 im August 2012 auf den Markt". Internet World Business. 2012-05-08. Archived from the original on 2012-05-11. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
  7. ^ a b "Shopware bekennt sich mit AGPL zur Open-Source-Strategie". Shopware (in German). 2012-05-08. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
  8. ^ "Shopware 4.0 Roadmap". Shopware (in German). 2011-05-12. Archived from the original on 2011-05-12. Retrieved 2023-08-31. Der Kern des Produkts wird unter eine Open-Source Lizenz gestellt
  9. ^ "Shopware Community Day breaks ground with an open source bang". Handling-Network.com. 2016-05-22. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  10. ^ a b "Shopware 5 upgrade guide". developers.shopware.com. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  11. ^ Gärtner, Markus (2021-08-11). "Das sind die meistgenutzten Onlineshop-Systeme in Deutschland". onlinehaendler-news.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  12. ^ "E-Commerce 2021: Zeit des Wachstums". EHI Retail Institute (in German). 2022-10-12. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  13. ^ "Shopware "New Era" Update Review". Firebear Studio. 2022-09-22. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  14. ^ "eCommerce technologies Web Usage Distribution in Germany". trends.builtwith.com. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  15. ^ "Usage Statistics and Market Share of Shopware, August 2023". w3techs.com. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  16. ^ a b "This is what has changed in Shopware 6". EXWE Custom software. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  17. ^ "How to Create an E-commerce Website from Scratch". Dinarys. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  18. ^ a b c d Tibi (2021-10-04). "Shopware 6 - the choice for small to medium sized enterprises?". Clever++ Blog. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  19. ^ "Shopware - Projects using Symfony". Symfony.com. Retrieved November 19, 2021.
  20. ^ "Shopware 5.0 Major Version". Shopware Knowledgebase. Shopware. 2015-04-27. Archived from the original on 2015-05-30. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  21. ^ "Shopware version 5.4 released: More clarity, even better performance". Shopware. 2018-02-26. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  22. ^ "Shopware 5.5: New version released". Handling-Network.com. 2018-08-06. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  23. ^ a b "Shopware 6 - Shop-System der Zukunft". loy.info. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  24. ^ AG, shopware. "Developer news: Bootstrap 5 coming soon". Shopware. Retrieved 2023-11-15.
  25. ^ "Shopware Repository". GitHub.com. Retrieved April 30, 2016.
  26. ^ a b c d Hedemann, Falk (2012-08-28). "Shopware 4 ab heute erhältlich: Das sind die 10 wichtigsten Neuheiten". t3n Magazin (in German). Archived from the original on 2016-04-25. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
  27. ^ "Lizenz für Shopware 4 steht fest: Shopware bekennt sich mit AGPL zur Open-Source-Strategie - openPR". OpenPR.de (in German). Shopware AG. 2012-05-08. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
  28. ^ "Shopware 4: Neue Software für Webshop-Betreiber". ChannelPartner (in German). International Data Group. 2012-08-28. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
  29. ^ a b "Tech deep dive into Shopware 6 with Daniel Nögel". Shopware. 2019-06-19. Archived from the original on 2020-09-27. Retrieved 2023-08-31. Shopware 6 is a complete rewrite […]
  30. ^ "Shopware 6: Vom klassischen Shopsystem zur E-Commerce-Plattform". t3n Magazin (in German). 2019-05-24. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  31. ^ a b c d "End of Shopware 5 – What comes next?". Scayle. 2022-08-03. Retrieved 2023-08-31. it was a complete rebuild of the software platform.
  32. ^ "How about Shopware 5?". Shopware. 2022-08-16. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  33. ^ a b c d "Shopware 6 ist da! Early Access". Splendid Internet (in German). 2019-07-31. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  34. ^ "Shopware 6 Early Access 2: Highlights und Ausblick". Splendid Internet (in German). 2019-11-08. Retrieved 2023-08-31.

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