I have worked with Shopware for more than ten years, starting with version 4. It began with my first extension in the store, a free choice of image or colour for the shop background. Then came themes, looking after smaller shops, and eventually the whole stack: deployments, plugins that reach deep into the system, awkward migrations. My plugins run in more than 8,000 shops today, rated 4.8 out of 5. Below is a look at individual projects.
Contract development for Shopware agencies.
Features that did not exist in the store, or that were too specific for a standard plugin.
More than 20 migration projects since Shopware 6 was released. The effort rarely sits in the shop system, it sits in the data: records from plugins and from custom code grown over years had to be moved into the data structures of their successors. On top of that come inconsistencies nobody had ever noticed. I cleaned those up and carried them over properly.
Connecting an ERP system through JSON files to keep the product catalogue up to date, plus several CSV imports for recurring data transfers.
Bringing SaaS products to Shopware: development, publication in the store, maintenance across Shopware releases.
Zakeke is a SaaS product configurator built for e-commerce. The challenge was to drive the software entirely through API and iframe, and to do so not only as a plugin but also as an app based on Symfony. The app is listed in the Shopware Store (opens in a new tab). Zakeke brought the configurator, I brought the Shopware side. Since then I have extended the integration and kept it working across Shopware releases. Features are still being added, among them complex price calculation and AI functionality.
A selection of my extensions in the Shopware Store.
Products in a category are sorted by fixed rules, but shop operators want to pull individual items to the front. The extension makes the display order manually controllable through priority values. The interesting part was extending the DAL with custom joins so that large data sets can still be queried efficiently.
A B2B channel should stay invisible to the public. The entire shop is locked, access only after registration and manual approval by the operator. The hard part was defining exactly what gets locked and how caching deals with it.
Shopware sends automated emails, but nobody can look up what actually went out. I built the feature as an app: Symfony in the backend, a Vuetify frontend with search, filters and sorting across the sent emails.