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Shopware Community Edition is a free, open-source e-commerce platform powered by Symfony and Vue.js, enabling merchants and developers to build secure, flexible, and scalable online stores.

🚀 Overview

Shopware Community Edition is the MIT-licensed open-source core of the Shopware e-commerce platform, providing a powerful foundation for anyone to create and manage online stores. It offers full control, security, and extensibility without any licensing fees.

This project solves the problem of expensive or restrictive e-commerce solutions by delivering a free, customizable platform suitable for businesses of all sizes—from startups to enterprises. It's built for merchants seeking ready-to-use functionality, developers wanting deep customization, and agencies building client stores.

Shopware created and maintains this edition to foster a collaborative ecosystem, investing in the core while allowing the community to contribute extensions, ideas, and innovations for sustainable growth in e-commerce.

✨ Key Features

Content & Design Tools: Visual page builder, media manager, and default theme for easy storefront customization.
Customer & Marketing: Customer groups, promotions, SEO, product reviews, cross-selling, and rule-based pricing.
Internationalization: Multi-language support, currency, tax management, and sales channels.
Automation: Rule Builder and Flow Builder for workflows.
Extensibility: App Store with 3,100+ extensions, custom fields/entities, Admin SDK.
Inventory & Orders: Product variants, dynamic groups, order/customer management, payment/shipping integrations.

Optional: Ongoing community-driven features like improved headless capabilities and Storefront Components.

🛠 Tech Stack

Frontend: Vue.js 3, TypeScript, SCSS
Backend: Symfony 7, PHP
Database: MySQL
Auth: Built-in (custom user management)
Hosting: Self-hosted (LAMP stack), Cloudflare/ partners, or Shopware Cloud

👥 Who Is This For?

This project is useful for:

Developers who want to build and extend custom e-commerce solutions with modern APIs.
Merchants looking for a free, scalable platform to launch online stores.
Teams and agencies seeking extensible tools with community support.

📸 Screenshots / Demo

Live demo: https://www.shopware.com/en/products/product-tour/
GitHub: https://github.com/shopware/shopware

🔥 Project Status

🟢 Actively building

Last updated: 2026-03-24

❓ FAQ

Is this project free?

Yes / Open Source (Free to download, use, and modify under MIT license; commercial editions available for extra features.)

Is the source code available?

Yes — https://github.com/shopware/shopware

Can I contribute?

Yes — Report bugs via GitHub issues, submit PRs following the contribution guidelines and sign the CLA. Provide feedback on the community forum or Slack.