The State of Shopware

Shopware is an open-source ecommerce platform that was started in Germany in 2003.

Quarterly Growth

At present, there are 8,340 live stores running on the Shopware platform.

Here is the quarter-over-quarter growth of stores running Shopware.

It's hard to know exactly when a Shopware store was first created but we use a heuristic combining DNS and WHOIS data that provides a reasonable approximation.

Top Stores

Here are the top stores, powered by Shopware, ordered by worldwide store rank.

New Stores

Here are the 5 highest-ranked new stores that are running Shopware.

Platform Wins

Over the last 90 days, Shopware has taken 71 merchants from competitive platforms.

Platform Win Stores

Here are the top stores won from competitive platforms.

Platform Losses

Over the last 90 days, Shopware has lost 14 merchants to competitive platforms.

Platform Loss Stores

Here are the top stores lost to competitive platforms.

Category Breakdown

Here are the top 20 industry verticals for stores on Shopware.

Country Breakdown

Shopware is quite popular in the United States.

With a paid account, stores can also be segmented by region and city.

Social Media and Contact Info

Email and phone are the primary means of contacting merchants running on Shopware.

This is in contrast with merchants using other ecommerce platforms that have much higher usage of social media channels, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest.

Third-Party Technologies

Many Shopware merchants run third-party technologies on their store in addition to apps from the Shopware App Store. We're tracking 65 different technologies that have 8,975 collective installs on Shopware stores.

Here are the top 10 third-party technologies, ordered by number of installs, across all Shopware stores.

Top-level Domain Distribution

Most Shopware stores use a .com domain. This is not surprising since alternate top-level domains have only recently been introduced and there is still a certain cachet associated with .com domains.

Get more insights on Shopware stores

Our search interface is easy to use and helps you find the Shopware stores that are relevant to you.

You can segment stores on a variety of dimensions:

• Social Media accounts
• Email address
• Phone numbers
• Country
• Third-party technologies
• Creation date
• Platform
• Top-level domains
• Domain status
• Domain type

Filter on stores with Facebook accounts.

For more insights on Shopware stores, create a free account and have a look for yourself.