What is Pimcore
Pimcore is an open core platform for Product Experience Management (PXM). It provides a solid, API-driven foundation for
managing digital data and customer experience, combining a Core Framework with a modular set of Core Extensions covering
PIM, MDM, DAM, CDP, DXP/CMS, and Digital Commerce — all licensed under the Pimcore Open Core License (POCL). Data is
stored independently of the channel and delivered to any output: websites, commerce systems, mobile apps, print,
digital signage, or headless consumers via REST and GraphQL. Pimcore Studio provides the unified
administration interface for the entire platform.
Pimcore ships with rich out-of-the-box functionality and is designed to be fully customizable and extensible. You define
your own data models, build your own templates or consume the APIs, integrate with any IT infrastructure, and tailor
the platform to exact project requirements — from a single standalone implementation to a complex multi-system
architecture.
Features
All data in Pimcore is organized into three core element types that can be linked and related to each other:
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Data Objects — manage any structured data based on a class-editor-defined model, either manually or via API.
Covers products (PIM/MDM), categories, customers (CDP), orders (Digital Commerce), and articles (DXP/CMS).
Delivers consistent data to multiple output channels from a single source.
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Assets (DAM) — store and manage any file type. Preview 200+ formats directly in Pimcore, auto-generate
channel-specific output formats, and enrich files with metadata and versioning.
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Documents (DXP/CMS) — build pages with Twig templates and inline editables, with full multilingual and multi-site
support, plus emails, newsletters, and web-to-print.
The Pimcore Platform
Pimcore is modular. Its modules ship as separate Composer packages (Core Modules & Extensions), all licensed under POCL:
- Data Onboarding & Distribution — Datahub (GraphQL/REST),
Data Importer, File Export, Simple REST, Webhooks
- Productivity — Backend Power Tools, Direct Edit,
Workflow Designer
- Automation — Copilot, Copilot Showcases, Workflow Automation
- Portals & Dashboards — Studio Dashboards, Portal Engine,
Statistics Explorer
- Advanced Data Management — Headless Documents,
Asset Metadata Class Definitions, Data Quality Management, Web-to-Print, Customer Management Framework
- Marketing & Personalization — Personalization
- Integrations — OpenID Connect, Translation Provider
Interfaces, Datahub Productsup
- E-Commerce Framework — catalog, pricing, cart,
checkout, and order management
See Pimcore Modules for the full list and
Pimcore Editions for module availability per
edition (Community, Professional, Enterprise, PaaS).
Architecture
Pimcore follows a layered architecture where multiple interfaces — the Studio administration UI,
server-rendered websites, and headless API consumers — all operate on the same core data layer.
Technology stack:
- Backend — PHP 8.4 / 8.5, Symfony (MVC, DI, Messenger, Routing, Security)
- Studio UI — React, TypeScript, Ant Design, Redux, RTK Query, Mercure, Rsbuild
- Persistence — MySQL/MariaDB via Doctrine DBAL for structured data; Flysystem for file storage
(local, S3, and other adapters)
- Search & indexing — OpenSearch or Elasticsearch via the Generic Data Index
- Cache — Redis or Symfony Cache
- Background processing — Symfony Messenger with a configurable message queue backend
- Real-time — Mercure for server-sent events
Two delivery patterns:
- Server-rendered — Symfony controllers with Twig templates and Pimcore editables for inline content editing; pages
are built and rendered by the Pimcore application itself.
- Headless — REST and GraphQL APIs via Datahub; Pimcore acts as a pure data and content backend for any frontend or
external system.
Both patterns can be used alongside each other in the same project.
See the Architecture documentation for full
details including application layers and the data flow between them.
Platform Versions
Each module has its own repository and is released independently. The pimcore/platform-version
package bundles a set of specific module versions that are tested and verified to work together, released as a single
version such as 2026.1. Major Platform Versions ship once per year; the documentation and demos are based on Platform
Versions. Starting with 2026.1, every module carries the same version number as the platform. New projects depend
on pimcore/platform-version by default.
How to get started
Local installation
Pimcore 2026.x uses Docker for local development. No local PHP or Composer installation is required.
Prerequisites: Docker and Docker Compose installed, and your user must be allowed to run Docker commands and change
file permissions.
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