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Magento vs Shopware: What are the differences?

Developers describe Magento as "Flexible eCommerce solutions, a vibrant extensions marketplace and an open global ecosystem". Magento Community Edition is perfect if you’re a developer who wants to build your own solution with flexible eCommerce technology. You can modify the core code and add a wide variety of features and functionality. On the other hand, Shopware is detailed as "An eCommerce platform to power your online business". It is an eCommerce platform to power your online business. It promotes openness and accessibility which is reflected in its business culture and people.

Magento and Shopware can be categorized as "Ecommerce" tools.

Magento is an open source tool with 7.7K GitHub stars and 6.61K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Magento's open source repository on GitHub.

Decisions about Magento and Shopware
David Swift

We devised SwiftERM to generate additional income from existing consumers on ecommerce websites. Available for those using Shopify, Magento, Woocommerce or Opencart, it runs in alongside (not instead of) existing email marketing software like Mailchimp, Drupal or Emarsys. It is 100% automatic so needs zero additional staff. It uses predictive analytics to identify imminent consumer purchases. The average additional turnover achieved is 10.5%. It is the only software in the world authorised to send Trustpilot to send product ratings in outbound emails. Developers and ecommerce retailers are invited to try to it for free, to establish viability this predictive analytics system is. SwiftERM is a certified Microsoft Partner MPN ID 6197468.

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Pros of Magento
Pros of Shopware
  • 22
    Open source
  • 14
    Robust
  • 12
    Powerful
  • 10
    Widespread community support
  • 8
    E-commerce made easy
  • 4
    Mature
  • 4
    Flexible
  • 5
    Future Proof
  • 4
    Supports Headless
  • 3
    Open Source
  • 2
    Free

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Cons of Magento
Cons of Shopware
  • 2
    System is too complex
  • 2
    Slow
  • 1
    Processor hungry
  • 1
    Lack of graphql

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What is Magento?

Magento Community Edition is perfect if you’re a developer who wants to build your own solution with flexible eCommerce technology. You can modify the core code and add a wide variety of features and functionality.

What is Shopware?

Shopware 6 is an open headless commerce platform powered by Symfony 5.4 and Vue.js 2.6. Check out our GitHub Repository https://github.com/shopware/platform

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What are some alternatives to Magento and Shopware?
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is the most popular WordPress eCommerce plugin. And it's available for free. Packed full of features, perfectly integrated into your self-hosted WordPress website.
WordPress
The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
OpenCart
It is an online store management system. It is PHP-based, using a MySQL database and HTML components. Support is provided for different languages and currencies. It is freely available under the GNU General Public License.
BigCommerce
It is a true all-in-one ecommerce platform with the power to grow your business & help you sell more. It empowers you to rise above complexity – and ultimately focus on optimizing your business for growth.
PrestaShop
PrestaShop is written in PHP, is highly customizable, supports all the major payment services, is translated in many languages and localized for many countries, and is fully responsive (both front- and back-office).
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