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Shopware Essentials

Shopware Essentials

A compact, practical introduction to Shopware for technically confident users. The course focuses on the main concepts needed to understand how a Shopware shop works, how the Store API is used, how cart and checkout flows are structured, and how to navigate the Administration. Participants also receive a practical overview of setting up and running a Shopware environment for learning, testing or early project work.

What will you learn?

You will understand the core building blocks of a Shopware project and how customer-facing commerce processes work. You will practise basic Store API requests, inspect cart and checkout behaviour, and learn how Administration settings influence the shop experience. You will also gain a practical overview of local setup, configuration, logs, updates and operational basics.

  • Understand Shopware architecture, terminology and project structure
  • Use the Store API for product, customer, cart and checkout workflows
  • Understand cart, checkout, order and payment concepts
  • Navigate the Administration and configure key shop settings
  • Recognise when to use the Store API and when to use the Admin API
  • Set up and troubleshoot a basic local Shopware environment
  • Understand basic operational topics such as logs, cache, updates and backups

Requirements:

  • Basic comfort using the command line
  • Basic understanding of HTTP and JSON is helpful
  • No previous Shopware experience required

Course Outline*:

*We customize the course outline and content to your specific needs and relevant use cases.

Module 1: Shopware orientation

  1. What Shopware is and how a Shopware project is structured
  2. Storefront, Administration, Core, apps, plugins and sales channels
  3. Products, categories, customers, carts, orders and payments
  4. Difference between Store API and Admin API
  5. Typical project roles: admin user, integrator, developer and operator

Module 2: Local setup and working environment

  1. Starting a local Shopware environment
  2. Accessing Storefront and Administration
  3. Understanding environment files, logs, cache and basic services
  4. Using prepared demo data for practical exercises
  5. Common setup problems and troubleshooting steps

Module 3: Store API fundamentals

  1. Purpose of the Store API in customer-facing commerce flows
  2. Sales channel access keys, request headers and context tokens
  3. Reading product, category and listing data
  4. Testing API calls with Postman, Insomnia, curl or an IDE client
  5. Practical exercise: retrieve product and listing data through the Store API

Module 4: Customer context and cart basics

  1. Anonymous and logged-in customer contexts
  2. Customer registration and login flow at a high level
  3. Creating and maintaining a cart context
  4. Adding, changing and removing cart line items
  5. Practical exercise: build and inspect a cart through API requests

Module 5: Checkout and payment concepts

  1. Required data before checkout can be completed
  2. Shipping method, payment method, address and customer context
  3. How cart calculation affects checkout
  4. Creating an order from a cart
  5. Payment handling concepts, redirects and external providers
  6. Practical exercise: follow a complete cart-to-order flow in a test shop

Module 6: Administration for technical users

  1. Navigating the Shopware Administration
  2. Managing products, categories, customers and orders
  3. Sales channels, domains, currencies, languages, taxes and rules
  4. Basic order review and status handling
  5. User roles, permissions and safe administration practices

Module 7: Admin API and integration overview

  1. When the Admin API is used instead of the Store API
  2. Authentication and backend access concepts
  3. Reading and managing entities such as products, customers and orders
  4. Import, export and synchronisation use cases
  5. Integration examples: ERP, PIM, payment provider, fulfilment system

Module 8: Basic DevOps and shop operations

  1. Local, staging and production environments
  2. Configuration, secrets and environment variables
  3. Cache, queues, scheduled tasks, database and search basics
  4. Logs, troubleshooting and common operational issues
  5. Updates, backups, rollback thinking and security basics

Final workshop: end-to-end mini scenario

  1. Configure a simple sales channel and product setup
  2. Retrieve products through the Store API
  3. Create a cart and complete a checkout flow
  4. Review the resulting order in the Administration
  5. Discuss what would be needed before running a real shop independently

Hands-on learning with expert instructors at your location for organizations.

3,072€*
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Level:
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Duration:
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2
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Master new skills guided by experienced instructors from anywhere.

2,037€*
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Level:
intermediate
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Duration:
14
Hours (days:
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Training customized to your needs
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Reduced training costs
*Price can range depending on number of participants, change of outline, location etc.
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Upcoming Sessions

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