# Shopware Account
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**Create a Shopware account**
You may have already created a Shopware account. If not, please create one at [www.account.shopware.com](https://account.shopware.com)
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### Link your shop to your Shopware Account
To ensure your shop is properly linked with your licenses, you need to set up your Shopware account in your Shop Administration for Shopware 6. This way, you will receive notifications about updates and can view/install your extensions in your Shop Administration.
## Merchant Area
First, you create a shop in your shop operator area. To do this, log in to your Shopware account and then go to:
**Merchant > Shops > Register a Community Edition Shop**
In your Shopware Account
The wizard will then guide you through the setup process. Please make sure that you have correctly specified the license domain. The license domain is important so that you can later book your extensions on it. You can find further information on this in the [official Shopware documentation](https://docs.shopware.com/en/account-en/merchant-).
## Shop Administration
In order to manage and update your licenses from your Shopware shop, you need to link your Shopware instance with your Shopware account. To do this, go to your shop administration at:
**1) Extensions > My Extensions > Shopware Account**
Log in here with the data from your Shopware account
**2) Settings > System > Shopware Account**
In the next step, you enter your license domain under which you have booked the extensions from the Shopware Store. Alternatively, you can also make these settings in the **.env / .env-local** file on your server.
