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Unlock Unified Commerce: Shopware & SAP Integration for Growth

Connect your eCommerce powerhouse with your enterprise ERP. Automate operations, synchronize data in real-time, and drive efficiency across your entire business.

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The Challenge

The Disconnect: Why Isolated Shopware & SAP Systems Hold You Back

Operating Shopware and SAP as separate entities creates significant operational inefficiencies, data discrepancies, and a fragmented view of your business. This disconnect directly impacts customer satisfaction, profitability, and your ability to scale.

  • Manual data entry leads to errors and delays in order processing.
  • Out-of-sync inventory causes overselling, backorders, and customer frustration.
  • Fragmented customer data prevents personalized marketing and efficient support.
  • Delayed financial postings complicate reconciliation and reporting.
  • Inconsistent product information across systems impacts storefront accuracy.
  • Lack of real-time visibility hinders strategic decision-making.
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The Solution

The Integrated Advantage: Seamless Shopware SAP Connectivity

Our iPaaS-powered solution bridges the gap between Shopware and SAP, creating a cohesive ecosystem where data flows freely, accurately, and in real-time. This integration transforms your operations, enabling automation, enhancing data quality, and providing actionable insights for growth.

  • Event-driven architecture for real-time data synchronization.
  • Pre-built connectors for Shopware and SAP (OData, BAPI/RFC, IDoc).
  • Visual, low-code/no-code workflow builder for rapid deployment.
  • AI-assisted data mapping and transformation.
  • Centralized monitoring and error handling dashboards.
Implementation Timeline

Go live with Shopware + SAP in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both Shopware and SAP, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most Shopware + SAP deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Comprehensive Solution Details

  • Event-driven architecture for real-time data synchronization.
  • Pre-built connectors for Shopware and SAP (OData, BAPI/RFC, IDoc).
  • Visual, low-code/no-code workflow builder for rapid deployment.
  • AI-assisted data mapping and transformation.
  • Centralized monitoring and error handling dashboards.
  • Scalable infrastructure designed for high-volume transactions.

Technical Integration Overview: Connecting Shopware & SAP

This integration leverages a modern iPaaS to orchestrate data exchange between Shopware's robust APIs and SAP's comprehensive suite of interfaces. The architecture prioritizes real-time, event-driven communication for critical workflows, complemented by efficient batch processing for high-volume, less time-sensitive data.

Data Flow Steps

Secure Connectivity: Establish encrypted connections to Shopware via Admin API (API Keys) or Store API (OAuth 2.0) and to SAP via OData services (S/4HANA Cloud), BAPIs/RFCs (ECC via Cloud Connector), or IDocs.

Event-Driven Triggers: Configure Shopware webhooks (e.g., `order.written`, `customer.written`, `product.written`) to instantly trigger iPaaS workflows upon data changes.

Data Transformation & Harmonization: Utilize the iPaaS's visual mapping engine to transform data schemas between Shopware and SAP, ensuring data consistency and adherence to business rules.

Business Logic & Validation: Implement conditional logic, data enrichment, and validation rules within the iPaaS to ensure data integrity before posting to the target system.

Error Handling & Monitoring: Centralized logging, automated retries with exponential backoff, dead-letter queues, and real-time alerts ensure robust error management and operational visibility.

Deployment & Governance: Manage integration lifecycles with Dev -> QA -> Prod promotion pipelines, version control, and comprehensive audit trails.

Data Touchpoints

Shopware: Orders, Customers, Products, Inventory, Deliveries, Payment Transactions, Categories, Media.
SAP: Sales Orders, Business Partners (Customers/Vendors), Materials (Products), Inventory, Invoices, Payments, General Ledger Accounts.

"Shopware (Frontend) <-> Webhooks/API <-> iPaaS (Orchestration, Transformation, AI) <-> SAP (ERP Backend) Key Flows: 1. Shopware Order -> iPaaS -> SAP Sales Order 2. SAP Material Stock -> iPaaS -> Shopware Product Inventory 3. Shopware Customer -> iPaaS -> SAP Business Partner 4. SAP Material Master -> iPaaS -> Shopware Product Catalog (incl. Media)"

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for Shopware + SAP.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
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Innovative & Robust

How Middleware Integration Works

Benefits of Integrating Shopware

Integrating Shopware fosters greater efficiency and data accuracy. Automate your critical business processes to deliver consistently outstanding results.

Hover over the steps on the right to see detailed integration points.
Data Mapping

Key Entities & Intelligent Mapping for Shopware-SAP Integration

Effective integration hinges on precise mapping and transformation of core business entities between Shopware and SAP. Our iPaaS provides granular control and AI assistance to ensure data integrity and consistency.

Order

Represents a completed or pending purchase in Shopware, transforming into a Sales Order in SAP for fulfillment and financial processing.

Shopware Fields

id orderNumber orderDate amountTotal currencyId customerId stateId billingAddress shippingAddress lineItems deliveries transactions

SAP Fields

SalesOrderID SalesOrderType SoldToParty ShipToParty CustomerID OrderDate RequestedDeliveryDate Currency TotalNetValue SalesOrderItems (MaterialID, Quantity, NetPrice, Plant, StorageLocation)

Mapping Notes

Shopware's `orderNumber` maps to SAP's `PurchaseOrderNumber` or a custom external reference. `amountTotal` maps to `TotalNetValue` after tax calculation. Shopware `stateId` requires mapping to SAP Sales Order status codes. Line item product IDs must match SAP Material IDs.

Next Steps

See Shopware + SAP integration in action.

Explore a guided demo, start a sandbox integration, or speak directly with our solution architects about your specific use cases.

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Real-World Applications

Integration Use Cases

Explore how the integration behaves in real business scenarios, with clearly defined steps, outcomes, and execution patterns.

End-to-End Order Fulfillment Automation

When a customer places an order in Shopware, it's immediately created as a Sales Order in SAP for fulfillment, inventory allocation, and delivery processing.

Integration Steps:

  1. 0 Customer places Order in Shopware.
  2. 1 Shopware webhook triggers iPaaS workflow.
  3. 2 iPaaS transforms Shopware Order data to SAP Sales Order schema.
  4. 3 iPaaS creates Sales Order in SAP (e.g., via OData /ASalesOrder or BAPISALESORDER_CREATEFROMDAT2).
  5. 4 SAP processes order, allocates inventory, triggers delivery.
  6. 5 Delivery/Shipment status and tracking codes from SAP are updated back to Shopware.
  7. 6 SAP generates invoice, which can be synced back to Shopware or customer portal.

Business Outcome

Significantly reduced order processing time, improved order accuracy, real-time fulfillment visibility for customers, and automated financial postings.

Frequency

Real-time, event-driven

Business Value

Key Integration Benefits

Discover the strategic advantages and business value of seamless integration between your systems.

Streamlined Order-to-Cash
Automate the entire order lifecycle from Shopware checkout to SAP sales order, fulfillment, and invoicing, drastically reducing processing time.
Real-time Inventory Accuracy
Synchronize stock levels between SAP and Shopware instantly, eliminating overselling and improving customer satisfaction.
Unified Customer View
Maintain consistent customer profiles across Shopware and SAP, enabling personalized experiences and efficient support.
Enhanced Data Quality
Leverage AI-driven validation and transformation rules to ensure data consistency and accuracy across both systems.
Reduced Operational Costs
Minimize manual data entry, reconciliation efforts, and the need for custom coding with low-code automation.
Accelerated Time-to-Market
Quickly onboard new products and promotions by synchronizing rich product data from SAP to Shopware.
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Streamlined Order-to-Cash

70% Faster Order Processing

📋 What You Get

Automate the entire order lifecycle from Shopware checkout to SAP sales order, fulfillment, and invoicing, drastically reducing processing time.

💼 Business Impact

This benefit directly contributes to 70% improvement in Faster Order Processing, enabling your team to focus on high-value strategic initiatives.

Implementation Timeline

Go live with Shopware + SAP in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both Shopware and SAP, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most Shopware + SAP deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Technical Documentation

API Endpoints & Data Logic

Technical details for developers and architects.

Method Endpoint Purpose
POST, GET, PATCH /api/v3/order Create, retrieve, and update customer orders for fulfillment and status tracking.
POST, GET, PATCH /api/v3/product Manage product catalog, inventory levels, pricing, and descriptions.
POST, GET, PATCH /api/v3/customer Synchronize customer data (profiles, addresses, contact details).
POST, GET /api/v3/media Upload and manage product images and other media assets.
GET /api/v3/payment-method Retrieve available payment methods for configuring payment gateway integrations.
GET /api/v3/product-listing Retrieve product listings for storefront or external channel integration, often with filtering and sorting.

⚡ Transformation Logic

  • Field Mapping: Direct 1:1, 1:many, many:1 field mappings.
  • Data Type Conversion: String to integer, date format conversion, boolean mapping.
  • Conditional Logic: Apply transformations based on specific field values (e.g., map Shopware `stateId` to different SAP Sales Order types).
  • Lookup Tables: Translate codes (e.g., Shopware country codes to SAP country keys).
  • Concatenation/Splitting: Combine first/last names, split addresses.
  • Default Values: Assign default values for missing mandatory fields in the target system.
  • Data Enrichment: Add information from external sources or internal databases (e.g., add SAP Plant based on product category).

🛡️ Error Handling

  • SAP system unavailable or slow response times.
  • Shopware webhook delivery failures.
  • Data validation errors (e.g., invalid product ID, missing customer data).
  • API rate limit exceeded on either system.
  • Business logic errors (e.g., trying to ship an unpaid order).
  • Network connectivity issues between iPaaS and endpoints.
Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for Shopware + SAP.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
View full pricing & options
Support & Information

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about integration implementation, security, and best practices.

General Integration FAQs

▸ What is the best way to integrate Shopware with SAP?
The most effective approach is using a modern iPaaS platform. This enables API-first, event-driven integrations that synchronize critical data like orders, inventory, and customer information in real-time, leveraging Shopware's webhooks and SAP's OData services or BAPIs. It also provides low-code tools for mapping and orchestration.

Technical Capabilities FAQs

▸ Can Shopware integrations support real-time inventory synchronization with SAP?
Yes, absolutely. By leveraging Shopware's product API and webhooks in conjunction with an iPaaS, you can achieve real-time or near real-time inventory synchronization from your SAP ERP. The iPaaS listens for inventory changes in SAP (e.g., via Event Mesh or direct API calls) and updates Shopware instantly, preventing overselling.

iPaaS Benefits FAQs

▸ How can low-code/no-code tools benefit Shopware-SAP integrations?
Low-code/no-code tools within an iPaaS empower business users and analysts to design, build, and maintain Shopware-SAP integration workflows without extensive coding. This accelerates development, reduces IT dependency, and allows business teams to quickly adapt workflows to changing needs, such as new product attributes or order statuses.

AI & Automation FAQs

▸ What role does AI play in modern Shopware-SAP integrations?
AI significantly augments Shopware-SAP integrations by providing capabilities like automated fraud detection in Shopware orders, intelligent data mapping suggestions between complex schemas, anomaly detection in SAP transactions, predictive inventory management, and automated exception handling, leading to smarter, more efficient workflows and improved data quality.

Error Management FAQs

▸ How do I handle errors and ensure data consistency in Shopware-SAP integrations?
A robust iPaaS provides advanced error handling, including automatic retries with exponential backoff, dead-letter queues for failed messages, and comprehensive logging. Data consistency is maintained through rigorous data mapping, transformation, and validation rules applied by the iPaaS, often augmented by AI-driven validation. Centralized monitoring and alerting ensure proactive issue resolution.

Challenges & Solutions FAQs

▸ What are the common challenges when integrating Shopware with SAP, and how are they overcome?
Common challenges include differing data models (e.g., Shopware Customer vs. SAP Business Partner), real-time vs. batch processing needs, complex business logic, and ensuring data consistency. Our iPaaS overcomes these with flexible mapping engines, event-driven architecture, AI-assisted transformations, and robust error handling mechanisms designed for enterprise-grade systems.

Technical Compatibility FAQs

▸ Does this solution support both SAP ECC and S/4HANA Cloud?
Yes, our iPaaS solution is designed for comprehensive compatibility. For SAP S/4HANA Cloud, we leverage its native OData and REST APIs. For on-premise SAP ECC or S/4HANA, we connect securely via SAP Cloud Connector, utilizing BAPIs, RFCs, and IDocs, ensuring your existing SAP landscape can be seamlessly integrated.

Performance & Scalability FAQs

▸ How does an iPaaS help with Shopware-SAP integration scalability?
An iPaaS provides a scalable, cloud-native infrastructure that can handle increasing data volumes and complex workflows without requiring significant re-architecture. It offers features like load balancing, distributed processing, and elasticity to ensure your Shopware-SAP integrations grow seamlessly with your business, even during peak sales seasons.
Implementation Timeline

Go live with Shopware + SAP in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both Shopware and SAP, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most Shopware + SAP deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for Shopware + SAP.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
View full pricing & options
Next Steps

See Shopware + SAP integration in action.

Explore a guided demo, start a sandbox integration, or speak directly with our solution architects about your specific use cases.

Start Free Trial Request Live Demo