In Shopware 6, all sales channels run through a shared Shopware Admin and the same product data – for example one or more storefronts, a headless sales channel for an app or an external frontend, and your store with Pickware POS. You define directly on the product which of these sales channels it is offered through. The exception is Pickware POS: The POS App displays products regardless of their sales channel assignment. This way you can run multiple storefronts with different assortments without maintaining your products multiple times.
Sales Channels in your Shopware Admin
You can find your Sales Channels in the menu on the left of your Shopware Admin. There you can open an existing sales channel and adjust its settings, or add another sales channel – for example a second storefront with its own assortment or a headless sales channel that provides your product data exclusively via the API.
All sales channels access the same product, stock and order data. So you maintain a product only once and then decide per sales channel whether and how it is offered there.
Assigning products to a sales channel
Open the product under Catalogues → Products and switch to the General tab. In the Assignment section, you use the Visibility field to define in which sales channels the product should be offered. A product is only available in the sales channels entered there – if you remove a sales channel from the list, the product is no longer offered in that channel.
Note: The assignment in the Visibility field does not apply to Pickware POS. In the POS App, products are displayed and found via search regardless of whether the POS sales channel is assigned to them. If you remove the POS sales channel from the list, the product can still be found in the POS App.
Using Set visibility for selected sales channels, you can additionally control per sales channel how easily the product can be found there:
Visible – The product appears in product lists and in search.
Hide in product listings – The product can only be reached via search and the direct link.
Hide in product listings and search – The product can only be reached via the direct link.
This way you can list the same product regularly in one storefront and make it accessible only via a link in another, without excluding it there entirely.
You can also do this using bulk edit when you are in the product overview. To do so, simply check the desired products, click Bulk edit and start it using the button at the bottom right. Then scroll to the Allocation block, make your changes and confirm with Apply changes.
Sales channel for Pickware POS
When you install Pickware POS, an additional sales channel is created for you automatically. You can find it in the menu on the left. If you click on it, you get to the settings for this sales channel.
The following settings are particularly relevant for your store:
Name – This is the internal name for your sales channel.
(Default) payment and shipping methods – Here you can define which (default) payment and shipping methods should be available in your store.
Default currency – Define here which currency should be the default currency for your sales channel.
Tax calculation – Define whether the tax calculation should be done horizontally by rows or vertically by columns.
You do not control which products appear in the POS App via the POS sales channel. The POS App also displays products whose visibility is not assigned to this sales channel.
Additional information on these and the other settings options can be found in the Shopware documentation.
To find out how to set up Pickware POS in your Shopware Admin beyond this, see How do I configure Pickware POS in the Admin?.