Our philosophy, your opportunity

Shopware's Community Edition

Experience the freedom of open-source. Secure, flexible, and fully in your control.
Empower your business, your way

Feature Overview

Content management & Design

  • Visual page builder

  • Media manager

  • Default theme

Customer experience & Marketing

  • Customer groups

  • Promotions

  • Net-/gross price display

  • Rule-based & scaled pricing

  • SEO

  • Basic search

  • Filter and sorting options

  • Cross-selling

  • Product reviews

  • Tag management

Internationalization

  • Sales channels

  • Multi-language

  • Currency and tax management

Workflow & Automation

  • Roles and permissions

  • Rule Builder

  • Flow Builder

Extensibility

  • App Store / Extensibility

  • Custom fields

  • Custom entities

  • Admin SDK

Inventory & Order management

  • Physical products

  • Digital products

  • Product variants

  • Dynamic product groups

  • Properties

  • Manufacturers

  • Category management

  • Order management

  • Admin orders

  • Customer management

  • Payment method integration

  • Shipping provider integration

Support

  • Community Support via Slack and Stackoverflow

Other

  • Import / Export

  • Migration

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Fair Usage Policy

Fairness, scalability, and a sustainable future for the Shopware community.

We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to succeed in ecommerce. That’s why we invest heavily in our open-source core, ensuring that businesses of all sizes can build, scale, and innovate on a powerful, flexible foundation. Every time a new user chooses our free Community Edition, it strengthens the ecosystem and reinforces the power of collaboration. The Fair Usage Policy helps keep this ecosystem balanced, ensuring that merchants, developers, and partners can grow together in a sustainable way.

  • The Fair Usage Policy applies to businesses using the Shopware Account and Shopware Store alongside the Community Edition.

  • The Community Edition remains fully open-source under the permissive MIT license.

  • For businesses using the Community Edition with an annual GMV exceeding €1M, generated through their Shopware online store, a Shopware plan is required to maintain access to the Shopware Account and Shopware Store.

Want to take your business further?

Community Edition is the base of all Shopware plans. If you want to scale up and grow faster with an advanced feature set and expert support by your side, explore our plans for your business now.

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How to get started with the Community Edition

1. Download & installation

Start your journey with Shopware by downloading our free, open-source Community Edition and installing it on your PC, Mac, Linux, hosting environment, or virtual machine. Follow our detailed installation guide, which walks you through every essential step to ensure a smooth, systematic, and successful Shopware 6 setup.

2. Set up and development

Find everything you need in our developer documentation. Whether you're just getting started or diving deeper, our comprehensive documentation offers step-by-step guidance to help you create outstanding online stores.

3. Create your own ecosystem

You’ll already find thousands of interfaces for various areas such as payment, shipping, and ERP available in the Shopware Store. However, thanks to our API-first approach, you can also connect other systems quickly and easily. This enables the seamless integration of your unique system environment into your online store.

4. Build your first Shopware app

Leverage Shopware's extension APIs to build unique extensions that boost merchants' businesses. Use the powerful plugin system to build highly custom extensions or apps using the platform of your choice.

5. Learn from the best

Shared knowledge fosters a dynamic, highly engaged, and ever expanding community. Stack Overflow is our central hub for continuous swarm knowledge. This is further complemented by the Shopware documentation and training, as well as the countless blog posts, meetups, and other content created by the community.

6. Visit our Forum

If you have questions about Shopware and related topics, then the community forum is the right place for you!

Shopware Community Edition

Join a global community of developers shaping the future of Shopware!

Developers around the world contribute to Shopware's source code, sharing their work and innovations with the entire community. By contributing your ideas and innovations to our open-source platform, you can make a real impact and leave your mark. Be part of something bigger—your contributions can inspire and empower businesses worldwide. Let’s build the future of Shopware together!

Developer digest

Shopware Developer Digest January 24
05/02/2024

Shopware Developer Digest January 24

Here is a collection of resources dedicated to Shopware development and related topics. Learn about opinions and recommendations from the community, various tutorials, blog posts, and other updates on "what's cooking" in the Shopware ecosystem.

Shopware Developer Digest August 24
19/09/2024

Shopware Developer Digest August 24

Here is a collection of resources dedicated to Shopware development and related topics. Learn about opinions and recommendations from the community, various tutorials, blog posts, and other updates on "what's cooking" in the Shopware ecosystem.

Shopware Developer Digest July 24
21/08/2024

Shopware Developer Digest July 24

Here is a collection of resources dedicated to Shopware development and related topics. Learn about opinions and recommendations from the community, various tutorials, blog posts, and other updates on "what's cooking" in the Shopware ecosystem.

Shopware Developer Digest April 24
10/05/2024

Shopware Developer Digest April 24

Here is a collection of resources dedicated to Shopware development and related topics. Learn about opinions and recommendations from the community, various tutorials, blog posts, and other updates on "what's cooking" in the Shopware ecosystem.

Thank you!

The engagement and the support of the Shopware community is outstanding. Every day, brilliant ideas, content, and code drive our open-source platform forward. Shopware’s success is thanks in part to the hard work and talent of the community. Words cannot express our gratitude. We cannot thank you enough.