Although Shopware is a complete e-commerce platform, it needs to be adapted to your product portfolio and your customer group in order to achieve the best sales performance and the greatest possible customer satisfaction.

These adjustments include functional and visual expansions as well as, if necessary, integrations into your other systems, sales channels or processes.

The Shopware architecture supports such customizations with extension modules such as plugins, themes and apps.

These are pieces of software that can run at specific times during page loading, based on specific events, triggered by specific Ajax calls or as timed cron jobs, during page visits in customer-facing front-end or admin-end environments.

By developing such software, Shopware can be customized or expanded to suit your specific needs, for example with product viewers, configurators, inventory checkers, messaging, chat, affiliate integration, etc.

plugin development

Plugins have always been available in Shopware and WordPress and are a central part of their respective platform ecosystem.

They provide a template structure to expand the functionality and enable access to the entire platform, in the front and/or back end.

Plugins can be used for configuration, design, shopping cart, ordering, payments, checkouts, but also to support specific interfaces to ERP or remote platforms or for advanced data management. Where possible, they should contain all relevant code to provide the extension for which they were developed.

theme development

Themes can be used for anything visual, dimensions, styles, text and fonts, frames, etc. They focus more on the appearance of the website rather than functionality.

For smaller sites or projects that require a high level of platform transparency, we also develop plugins and themes for WordPress, as it is the most widely used content management system in the world.

We worked on optimizing speed, content related plugins and apps, and woo commerce stores.

integration

Shopware itself is designed as an e-commerce platform.

It essentially provides the frontend, the shop, and the backend, the management console for the shop.

Since it is intended for every type of web shop, its basic version is very general and without adjustments it is not suitable for a specific target group.

It may also include a process that is not suitable for your company, for example because the customer-facing front-end processes are standardized. But how can you integrate it into your supplier-oriented processes? Do you have a dedicated ERP, supplier ordering or warehouse management system? A dedicated accounting platform? How about affiliate programs? Or dropshipping?

Interfaces, API and multichannel (ERP, CRM, Payment)

I can connect your Shopware shop with other systems.

These can be external systems that are connected via API, or targeted Ajax or Curl calls that call up specific URLs in your shop.

Cron jobs can also be used to map relatively precisely repetitive processes in which systems communicate among themselves without your intervention.

data

Shopware inherently has so-called free text fields. This allows any data fields within the data tables to be expanded and these can also be displayed in the backend.

In the front end, the templates usually need to be adjusted, and possibly also the controllers or subscribers through which the data is loaded into the pages.

I am completely flexible. The only important thing is that in the end all the data that is needed is available and can be made available.

Apps

In Shopware 6, apps were introduced as the standard extension architecture and are generally intended to replace plugins.