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S-Cart vs Shopware Community Edition: catalog facts
S-Cart	Shopware Community Edition
Freemium The core is free under MIT; some pro plugins such as multi-vendor and multi-store are…	Free The Community Edition is free and open source under MIT.
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Complete shop with admin panel out of the box Multi-language and multi-currency	Visual page builder and media manager included Rule-based and scaled pricing
Marketplace and multi-store features need paid plugins Requires PHP 8.3 and a MySQL or MariaDB server	Hosting and customization need PHP development skills Some extensions from the community store are paid
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: MIT
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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