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Shopware News

The shop software Shopware is developing rapidly and continuously. Here we inform our readers about new plugins and functions and share tips and tricks for working with Shopware.

Shopware User Manual Gives Valuable Tips

Following the manual for developers, the Shopware user manual "Online Shops with Shopware" written by Marcel Krippendorf is being published by Rheinwerk Verlag. The author was supported by shopware AG.

The manual contains, among others, the following topics:

• Step by step to the Shopware shop
• Plugins
• Templates
• Payment methods
• Merchandise management
• Localization
• Multistores
• Sales promotion
• Legal

Shopware Community Store Relaunch

published on 10.05.2016

As of today, the Shopware Community Store shines in new splendor. All Shopware customers can now browse the freshly renovated store for practical features and helpful extensions for their online shop. With the relaunch, the search for additions to Shopware shops is designed to be even easier.

Search Functions and Filter Options in the Store

Of course, customers will not only find a new and functional design in the store. An improved navigation and filterability has also been integrated. Products can now be filtered by their ratings and certification by Shopware. Furthermore, plugins, features and templates can be assigned even more easily to your own Shopware version with a version filter.

Additionally, the search function has been upgraded and provided with a suggestion search. This way, the Shopware online shop operator gets to the desired product without having to search for it for a long time. Once found, it can be saved to their wish list. For themes, there is now a dedicated category, organized by industry and colors.

Our Google Shopping plugin can be found under the menu item Extensions and Price Search Engines / Portals.

New Shopware Premium Plugin

published on 19.02.2016

Starting today, the developers from Schöppingen offer the brand-new premium plugin "Advanced Promotion Suite" in the Shopware Community Store. With the new extension, online merchants with a Shopware shop can finally also apply popular promotion campaigns. Most campaigns are already known to customers from brick-and-mortar retail and should therefore meet with broad interest.

The Shopware premium plugin "Advanced Promotion Suite" is a true all-rounder and all-in-one tool for successful campaigns. These can be deployed time-controlled at the push of a button and can also be combined with each other.

What Advanced Promotion Suite Can Do

Particularly popular is likely to be the "2+1" campaign, which has long brought good sales to retail. Offers like "Buy 3 and pay for 2" should boost business in quite a few online shops. The discounted item by no means always has to be free. It is also possible to provide it with a percentage or absolute price reduction.

This discount function can be selected for products that are to be particularly highlighted. Shop operators can use a variety of rules to determine when and at what amount the price reduction should be applied to which products.

Online merchants with a Shopware shop now also have the option, with the premium plugin "Advanced Promotion Suite", to offer free items for a purchase. When this gift is added to the package is determined by the seller through the addition of individual conditions, such as the minimum order value or the total sum of the shopping cart contents.

Advanced Promotion Suite as a Complement to Product Streams

The Shopware premium plugin is, by the way, very individual and can be excellently linked with the Product Streams feature. The plugin "Advanced Promotion Suite" also emerged from suggestions from the community. It was tested by Trusted Shops and was just recently checked by Shoplupe for functionality and user-friendliness.

We are already very much looking forward to trying out this great premium plugin in our own online shop at SYNERGY NETWORKS GmbH and to putting it to use for our customers.

Should you have questions about the premium plugin "Advanced Promotion Suite", please feel free to contact our Shopware experts.

Shopware Plugin PayPal Plus for Purchase on Invoice

published on 08.01.2016

In February of last year, the payment service provider PayPal launched PayPal Plus. This payment solution combines payment by direct debit, credit card, PayPal and, as a latecomer added in September 2015, invoice.

Many online merchants had been eagerly waiting for this last step, since payment by invoice is the most popular payment method among German online shoppers.

Merchants Must Get Activated

But the joy was somewhat dampened for operators of Shopware online shops, as the integration of purchase on invoice in the PayPal Plus plugin was delayed. Since January 6, the plugin from Shopware is now prepared for purchase on invoice.

However, online merchants must first be activated by PayPal itself for purchase on invoice. After a short period, this is then automatically displayed in the shop.

Digital Goods Are Excluded

Purchase on invoice is probably also not yet available to every merchant. Only gradually will the new payment option be released for all online shop operators.
It should also be noted that purchase on invoice does not apply to digital goods, since these cannot be returned and therefore no buyer protection can exist.