Shopware is a trendsetting ecommerce platform to power your online business. To be able to use Spreadconnect with Shopware, you will need first to open a Shopware Store.

Then, create an account with us. You can do that right here.

To install Spreadconnect in your Shopware account, head over to your Shopware Admin and follow those steps:

1. Go to Extensions, on the left hand-side menu.
2. Click on Store.
3. Enter Spreadconnect - Spreadshirt Print on Demand in the search bar of the extensions page.
4. Click on Install extension, and then Accept and Install.

The Spreadconnect Extension is now officially installed. You still have to connect it to your Spreadconnect account, though. To do so, in your Shopware Admin:

1. Go to Extensions, on the left hand-side menu.
2. Click on Spreadconnect - Spreadshirt Print on Demand extension page.
3. Complete installation.

This will lead you to the Spreadconnect App, where you can log into your Spreadconnect account.

Congratulation! You are now connected and ready to create products for your store.

Before configuring your shipping rates in your Shopware Store, we highly suggest reading their documentation on the subject.

1. Shopware - Settings - Shipping

You can also find our Shipping rates here: What are Spreadconnect's shipping times and prices?

How to configure shipping rates

To configure your shipping rate in Shopware, head over to your Shopware Dashboard:

1. Go to Settings
   
2. Click on Shipping
3. Add shipping method
   

Spreadconnect uses the name of your shipping methods to assign the right one to your order with us.

For Standard Shipping, the word STANDARD need to be present in the name. Same thing goes for PREMIUM and EXPRESS.

Please make sure to restrict your shipping methods to the countries available in the Spreadconnect Shipping Calculator.

Spreadconnect has a test environment called the Staging Area which lets you try out your integration and order processes.

To use this feature, you will need to register an account for the Staging Area. Your usual Spreadconnect credentials will not work. You will also need to enter test credit card information. You can use these test credit card numbers. The staging area lets you create orders and simulate orders going into production and being shipped.

To do this you can create an order via your respective integration or by creating sample or manual orders. When creating the test order it’s best to create orders above $300/€300 in order to circumvent batching .

Once the order is created, go to the order detail page and on the top left under More Actions click Simulate Order State in Production. You can now see what an order looks like when it goes into production. Select More Actions again and click Simulate Order State Sent.

This will make your order look like it has been shipped and will generate a tracking number.

Please note: Merchants using Shopware will need to install a staging app in order to use the test environment. Please note: the “Go to Spreadconnect App” button on Shopware will always point to the live environment, even after the staging app is installed. The installation process is done in the staging environment and there are no functional problems, but this button should not be used, to avoid confusion

When, after clicking on 'complete installation', you receive a '500' error, please make sure to check the following document:

https://docs.shopware.com/en/shopware-6-en/tutorials-and-faq/notes-to-the-APP-URL 

Also, please make sure that the URL with which you are trying to connect to Spreadconnect is reachable at all times. A '500' error means we cannot connect to your store's URL.

In case of addtional questions, please reach out to the Shopware support.