Store Notes https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/ Product insights and technical deep-dives en Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:40:17 GMT https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 6.8 moved to 2027: what the long 6.6→6.7 wave means for maintenance retainers https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/6-8-moved-2027-maintenance-retainers/ Shopware confirmed it in an official roadmap update: 6.8, the next major version, is now planned for 2027, not 2026. The stated reasoning is stability over… Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/6-8-moved-2027-maintenance-retainers/ The caret trap: why ^6.5 says yes to Shopware 6.7 — and your plugin still breaks https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/caret-trap-6-5-6-7/ Picture the audit: you're planning a 6.6→6.7 update window for a client shop. You open composer.json on the plugin that's given you trouble before, and there… Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/caret-trap-6-5-6-7/ Declared vs observed: when composer.json lies https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/declared-vs-observed-composer-lies/ A composer.json constraint is a claim, not a fact. Somebody wrote "shopware/core": "^6.5" at a point in time, with whatever testing they'd actually done at… Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/declared-vs-observed-composer-lies/ Planning 30 shop updates without opening 30 shops https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/fleet-preflight-30-shops/ Ask an agency tech lead what a Shopware 6.6→6.7-class update window actually costs, and the honest answer is rarely "the update." It's the audit before it… Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/fleet-preflight-30-shops/ Shopify credit notes: what a refund doesn't automatically produce https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/shopify-credit-note/ Refunding an order in Shopify admin moves money back to the customer and updates the order's financial status. It does not, on its own, produce a credit note… Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/shopify-credit-note/ Shopify e-invoicing: there is no fully native, end-to-end app for it yet https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/shopify-e-invoicing/ E-invoicing means sending a structured, machine-readable invoice through a government or interoperability network — Peppol in the EU, and country- specific… Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/shopify-e-invoicing/ Shopify invoice numbering: the order number is not an invoice number https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/shopify-invoice-numbering/ Every order gets a sequential number — #1001, #1002 — the moment it's placed. That number isn't an invoice number, and the order confirmation email isn't an… Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/shopify-invoice-numbering/ Shopify invoice template: why every app routes you back to code https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/shopify-invoice-template/ Shopify's core admin has no invoice template at all — no document, no editor, nothing to fill in. Every invoicing app on the store ships its own template… Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/shopify-invoice-template/ Sending an invoice to a Shopify customer, and knowing it went https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/shopify-send-invoice-to-customer/ It sends an order confirmation, full stop — not an invoice. Any invoice document sending is delegated entirely to whatever app or process a merchant has wired… Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/shopify-send-invoice-to-customer/ Shopify tax invoice: what 'tax invoice' means and why the order email isn't one https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/shopify-tax-invoice/ "Tax invoice" is the term regulators use in several countries — India's GST, Australia's GST, Singapore's GST — for a document with specific required content… Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/shopify-tax-invoice/ VAT invoice on Shopify: what the order confirmation is missing https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/shopify-vat-invoice/ The order confirmation email looks like a receipt, and plenty of merchants treat it as their invoice. It usually isn't a VAT-compliant one: Shopify captures… Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://store.apeirionlabs.com/notes/shopify-vat-invoice/