Shopware

Shopware is a leading open-source eCommerce platform built on PHP and Symfony, used by tens of thousands of merchants worldwide to run online stores ranging from focused direct-to-consumer brands to complex B2B catalogs. With an API-first architecture, headless capabilities, and a visual Rule Builder, Shopware combines the flexibility developers need with the merchandising tools commerce teams rely on every day.

Common Use Cases

Direct-to-consumer brands deploy Shopware to launch fast, conversion-optimized storefronts with rich product pages, flexible promotions, and built-in SEO tools, while keeping ownership of customer data and avoiding per-order fees from hosted platforms. Established retailers use Shopware to extend their physical presence online with multi-channel selling, shared inventory, and localized storefronts across countries and currencies. B2B businesses leverage Shopware's customer-specific pricing, quote workflows, employee management, and bulk ordering features to handle complex sales processes that generic shop systems cannot support. Agencies and developers choose Shopware as a foundation for headless commerce projects, using the Store API and Admin API to build custom storefronts in JavaScript frameworks while keeping Shopware as the commerce engine.

Key Features

• Powerful product catalog with variants, properties, and dynamic product groups
• Visual Rule Builder for prices, promotions, shipping, and payment configuration
• Drag-and-drop CMS for category, landing, and campaign pages
• Headless commerce with full Store API and Admin API coverage
• Built-in B2B features including customer-specific pricing and quote workflows
• OpenSearch integration for fast, faceted product search across large catalogs
• Multi-channel and multi-language support for international selling
• Customer accounts with order history, wishlists, and address management
• Thousands of plugins and apps in the Shopware Store
• Extensible with custom plugins and apps using Symfony and modern PHP

Why deploy Shopware on Hostinger VPS

Deploying Shopware on a Hostinger VPS gives your store the dedicated CPU, memory, and disk performance needed to handle product browsing, search, and checkout under real traffic without the noisy-neighbor effect of shared hosting. With full root access, you can tune PHP, MariaDB, Redis, and OpenSearch to match your catalog size and traffic profile, and scale resources up as your store grows. Customer data, order history, and payment integrations stay on infrastructure you control, supporting compliance requirements that hosted SaaS platforms cannot always meet. Combined with automatic HTTPS via Traefik and Let's Encrypt, this template provides a production-style Shopware stack you can launch in minutes and grow with your business.