# Is Shopware a system I should use? **URL:** \ **Category:** Installation/Einstieg\ **Created:** [7. Juli 2019 um 17:56 UTC](https://forum.shopware.com/t/is-shopware-a-system-i-should-use/60326 "2019-07-07T17:56:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Olympiapeter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Olympiapeter](https://forum.shopware.com/u/Olympiapeter)\ **Post date:** [7. Juli 2019 um 17:56 UTC](https://forum.shopware.com/t/is-shopware-a-system-i-should-use/60326/1 "2019-07-07T17:56:52Z")
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? [word counter](https://wordcounter.onl/) [VidMate](https://vidmate.onl/) [Mobdro](https://mobdro.onl/) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Shopwareianer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Shopwareianer](https://forum.shopware.com/u/Shopwareianer)\ **Post date:** [7. Juli 2019 um 20:02 UTC](https://forum.shopware.com/t/is-shopware-a-system-i-should-use/60326/2 "2019-07-07T20:02:47Z")
Shopware is mainly based on Symfony, not Slim. Maybe you should also take a look at Shopware 6 which is definitely a big milestone - With Shopware 6 you’ll use Twig, Sass etc. Pitfall: Shopware 6 isn’t released yet for the public, but will be this month. However you can check out the dev preview: [https://docs.shopware.com/en/shopware-platform-dev-en](https://docs.shopware.com/en/shopware-platform-dev-en) In my opinion: Shopware and especially Shopware 6 is one of the best open source systems on the market - Great source code, Symfony, Vue.js, Sass etc. are just a few features i really like in Shopware 6. For Shopware 5 in my opinion the biggest pitfall is ExtJs which is used for the backend and a few other things. So you’re a bit limited in case of developing backend plugins / user interfaces for the plugins. And i think ( i might be wrong ) Shopware 5 is still mixed with the Zend Framework. But i am not 100% sure, they maybe switched 100% to Symfony. But - Still one of the best e-commerce open source systems in my opinion - I worked with several systems like Magento, Woocommerce, Shopify, Opencart, Prestashop etc. But Shopware 6 is by far the best 🙂