Software:Shopware

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Shopware
Shopware Logo 2016.svg
Original author(s)shopware AG
Developer(s)shopware AG
Initial release2000
Stable release
6.5
Written inPHP, JavaScript
Operating systemCross-platform
Available inEnglish, German
TypeE-commerce
LicenseMIT License and commercial licenses
Websitehttps://www.shopware.com

Shopware is an open source e-commerce software written in PHP. The software is developed in Germany.[1][2]

History

Shopware AG was founded in Schöppingen, Germany in 2000 by brothers Stefan Hamann and Sebastian Hamann.[1]

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

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 iconCube becoming optional in Shopware 5.2.[8] As of Shopware 5.5, support for iconCube and encrypted plugins was removed.[9]

Former Magento chief Ben Marks joined the Shopware team as Director of market development in 2021.[2] As of 2021, the company employs 250 people.[2]

In 2021, EHI Retail Institute reported Shopware reached 11.5% market share among top 1000 e-commerce sites in Germany, second after Magento.[10] By 2022, Shopware surpassed Magento and became market leader in Germany with 12.2% market share among top 1000 e-commerce sites.[11] An estimated 100,000 e-commerce companies use Shopware, generating a combined revenue of 12 billion Euro.[2]

In 2022, Shopware AG announced that it had received a €100 million investment from PayPal and Carlyle.[1] Furthermore the company opened its first office in New York City, USA.[12]

According to BuiltWith, 5% of online shopping sites in Germany are built with Shopware as of August 2023.[13] According to W3Tech, 0.2% of content-managed websites of the top 10 million websites worldwide are built with Shopware as of August 2023.[14]

Extensions

The official Shopware Shop registry, features over 2,200 plugins as of July 2021[15], including payment merchant integrations for PayPal and Stripe[16]. Developers can create their own plugins.[3][15][17]

Technology

Shopware 6 Administration.

Shopware is developed in the PHP programming language.[3] It requires a relational MySQL database.[17]

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.[18][19][9][17]

As of Shopware 5.4, installation of plugins can be managed via Composer.[20]

As of Shopware 5.5, Elasticsearch integration is supported by default for fast search functionality.[21]

Shopware 5 built its user interface using the Smarty template engine, jQuery, and Ext JS.[3] 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.[17][22]

A Git repository is used for version control, which is also available on GitHub.[23]

Release history

Version 4

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, officially becoming free and open-source software.[5][6][24][25] Key changes included:

  • A media manager centrally manages images, videos, and other media through drag-and-drop.[24]
  • A REST API provides a collection of functions for connecting external software.[24]
  • The speed of the Community and Professional Editions backend and frontend was improved,[26] and support was added for reverse proxy caching such as Varnish.[24]

Version 6

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.[22][27] Shopware 6.0 was released later that year.[28] The release is a complete rewrite of the software,[27][29] from the monolithic codebase of Shopware 5 to a modular approach separates a headless backend API from its frontend.[29][30]

There is no in-place upgrade from Shopware 5 to Shopware 6.[31] Data can be migrated from a Shopware 5 online shop to a new Shopware 6 instance.[29][31] Plugins are not compatible. Shopware 5 is supported with bug fixes until 2023 and security patches until 2024.[29][31]

Key changes included:

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lunden, Ingrid (2022-02-08). "Shopware, an e-commerce platform that powers 100K brands, raises its first outside funding: $100M from PayPal and Carlyle" (in en-US). https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/08/shopware-an-e-commerce-platform-that-powers-100k-brands-raises-its-first-outside-funding-100m-from-paypal-and-carlyle/. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Writers, Staff (2021-03-09). "Former Magento Chief Evangelist Ben Marks joins Shopware as Director - Retail Gazette" (in en-GB). https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2021/03/ben-marks-joins-shopware-as-director/. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Module für PHP-basierte E-Commerce-Systeme schreiben Fortsetzung, Teil 8" (in de). PHP Magazin. 2012-03-15. http://it-republik.de/php/artikel/Module-fuer-PHP-basierte-E-Commerce-Systeme-schreiben-4490.html. 
  4. ↑ "Shopware 3.5 Download Archive". 2011-05-11. http://web.archive.org/web/20110511105740/http://wiki.shopware.de/Downloads_cat_448.html. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Shopware bringt Version 4 im August 2012 auf den Markt". 2012-05-08. http://www.internetworld.de/Nachrichten/Technik/Shopsoftware/Shopware-bringt-Version-4-im-August-2012-auf-den-Markt-Neues-Backend-und-verbesserte-Auswertung. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Shopware bekennt sich mit AGPL zur Open-Source-Strategie" (in de-DE). 2012-05-08. https://www.shopware.com/de/presse/pressemitteilungen/shopware-bekennt-sich-mit-agpl-zur-open-source-strategie/. 
  7. ↑ "Shopware 4.0 Roadmap" (in de). 2011-05-12. http://wiki.shopware.de/Ausblick-4.0.0-Q3-2011_detail_359_454.html#Der_Kern_des_Produkts_wird_unter_eine_Open-Source_Lizenz_gestellt. "Der Kern des Produkts wird unter eine Open-Source Lizenz gestellt" 
  8. ↑ "Shopware Community Day breaks ground with an open source bang" (in en-US). 2016-05-22. https://www.handling-network.com/shopware-community-day-breaks-ground-with-an-open-source-bang/. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Shopware 5 upgrade guide". https://developers.shopware.com/developers-guide/shopware-5-upgrade-guide-for-developers/. 
  10. ↑ Gärtner, Markus (2021-08-11). "Das sind die meistgenutzten Onlineshop-Systeme in Deutschland" (in de-de). https://www.onlinehaendler-news.de/online-handel/praxistipps/135587-meistgenutzten-onlineshop-systeme-deutschland-top-ten. 
  11. ↑ "E-Commerce 2021: Zeit des Wachstums" (in de-DE). 2022-10-12. https://www.ehi.org/presse/e-commerce-2021-zeit-des-wachstums/. 
  12. ↑ Shopware Update Review: The Beginning of a new era, Firebear Studio, accessed on 21, July 2023
  13. ↑ "eCommerce technologies Web Usage Distribution in Germany". https://trends.builtwith.com/shop/country/Germany. 
  14. ↑ "Usage Statistics and Market Share of Shopware, August 2023". https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-shopware. 
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "This is what has changed in Shopware 6" (in en). https://www.exwe.de/en/news/shopware/shopware-6-update-whats-changed-since-the-first-release/. 
  16. ↑ "How to Create an E-commerce Website from Scratch" (in en). https://dinarys.com/blog/make-an-ecommerce-website-with-shopware. 
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 Tibi (2021-10-04). "Shopware 6 - the choice for small to medium sized enterprises?" (in en-US). https://blog.cleverplusplus.com/shopware-6-the-choice-for-small-to-medium-sized-enterprises/. 
  18. ↑ "Shopware (Projects using Symfony)" (in en). https://symfony.com/projects/shopware. 
  19. ↑ "Shopware 5.0 Major Version". Shopware. 2015-04-27. http://en.wiki.shopware.com/_detail_1848.html. 
  20. ↑ "Shopware version 5.4 released: More clarity, even better performance" (in en-DE). 2018-02-26. https://www.shopware.com/en/press/press-releases/shopware-version-5-4-released-more-clarity-even-better-performance/. 
  21. ↑ "Shopware 5.5: New version released" (in en-US). 2018-08-06. https://www.handling-network.com/shopware-5-5-new-version-released/. 
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 "Shopware 6 - Shop-System der Zukunft". https://www.loy.info/blog/shopware-6-shop-system-der-zukunft.html. 
  23. ↑ "GitHub.com – Shopware Repository". https://github.com/shopware/shopware/. 
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 Hedemann, Falk (2012-08-28). "Shopware 4 ab heute erhältlich: Das sind die 10 wichtigsten Neuheiten" (in de). http://t3n.de/news/shopware-4-ab-heute-erhaltlich-411004/. 
  25. ↑ "Lizenz für Shopware 4 steht fest: Shopware bekennt sich mit AGPL zur Open-Source-Strategie - openPR" (in de). Shopware AG. 2012-05-08. https://www.openpr.de/news/630804/Lizenz-fuer-Shopware-4-steht-fest-Shopware-bekennt-sich-mit-AGPL-zur-Open-Source-Strategie.html. 
  26. ↑ "Shopware 4: Neue Software für Webshop-Betreiber" (in de). International Data Group. 2012-08-28. https://www.channelpartner.de/a/neue-software-fuer-webshop-betreiber,2591657. 
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 "Tech deep dive into Shopware 6 with Daniel Nögel" (in en-DE). 2019-06-19. https://www.shopware.com/en/news/tech-deep-dive-into-shopware-6-with-our-product-manager-daniel-noegel/. "Shopware 6 is a complete rewrite […]" 
  28. ↑ "Shopware 6: Vom klassischen Shopsystem zur E-Commerce-Plattform" (in de). 2019-05-24. https://t3n.de/news/shopware-6-vom-klassischen-shopsystem-zur-e-commerce-plattform-1165877/. 
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 29.3 "End of Shopware 5 – What comes next?" (in en-US). 2022-08-03. https://www.scayle.com/blog/end-of-shopware-5. "it was a complete rebuild of the software platform." 
  30. ↑ "How about Shopware 5?" (in en-DE). 2022-08-16. https://www.shopware.com/en/news/shopware-5-how-it-continues/. 
  31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 31.3 "Shopware 6 ist da! Early Access" (in de-DE). 2019-07-31. https://www.splendid-internet.de/blog/shopware-6-ist-da/. 
  32. ↑ "Shopware 6 Early Access 2: Highlights und Ausblick" (in de-DE). 2019-11-08. https://www.splendid-internet.de/blog/shopware-6-early-access-2-highlights-und-ausblick/. 

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