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
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?
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
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.
