Is Shopware a system I should use?

Shopware 5 Installation/Einstieg
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Hi guys, I have to evaluate if our company could use shopware for our next shop project. We are normally a “Drupal 7-only” company but can’t use it this time.

I searched the subreddit for opinions but couldn’t find any.  At first sight it looks like a really nice system. Its based on Slim and uses a lot of other nice features like Smarty, LESS etc.

Does anybody here have experience with it? What are pitfalls?

I know about other options like Magento (didnt like it, used it in one project), Sylius (too new / too much extra work involved), Drupal commerce (lots of experience but doesn’t play nice with the customers sofware) etc.

Thank you in advance.

 

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It’s great and it’s fast.

We use it for shops with several thousand items and the import/export functionality is the best i’ve seen for hooking it up
to external inventory software and order processing.  Product-Streams (filtered results) for cross-selling items was the selling point for me.

The update cycles are brilliant, and they really do make improvements with every release.

The downside is: you’re either a programmer or you can expect to spend at least a grand buying various *plugins* 

 

All-in-all… i’d say it depends on how many products you’re selling… if you only have a hundred then ShopWare is probably overkill.