Open E-Commerce Guidelines

An open, community-maintained collection of e-commerce guidelines — UX and technical: performance, semantic structure, machine-readability, and agentic-commerce readiness. Each guideline is testable and verifiable by concrete steps, with a vendor-neutral core and explicit notes on what applies on Shopware and Shopify.

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Black Friday is coming up. A 25-point checklist for Shopify shops (German)

SeasonalBlack Friday to Christmas

Holiday readiness

Guidelines for the busiest weeks of the year: delivery before the holidays, gifting, honest sales and a shop that stays fast under load. They apply on top of the year-round guidelines.

18 guidelines · 6 high or critical · 5 categories

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