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saldiaShop: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

saldiaShop is an online shop platform delivered as software as a service by saldia AG of Burgdorf, Switzerland. Merchants build and run a shop without programming, using responsive templates and a drag-and-drop editor. It covers product management with variants, stock levels and CSV import and export, discount and gift codes, abandoned-cart reminders and a Google Shopping feed. Order management includes carrier integrations, shipping labels and returns, and a marketplace of apps extends the shop.

saldia AG is headquartered in Switzerland, and its imprint names no parent company. The vendor states that saldiaShop is developed and hosted in Switzerland. Switzerland is not an EU member but is an EFTA country with an EU adequacy decision for data protection. The company's privacy policy mentions providers from around the world, among them Cloudflare, Amazon SES and Google services, so ask saldia which components touch shop and customer data and where they run. Only a hosted service is described; no self-hosted edition is mentioned.

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Sovereignty score
67 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-380
    Hosting in Switzerland only (recognised by the EU as adequate)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 14, 2026
Headquarters
CH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
CHVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
E-commerce
Type
Product
Website
saldia.ch ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to saldiaShop

The European alternatives to saldiaShop come from our knowledge base of over 9,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with saldiaShop

saldiaShop is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

saldiaShop hosts data in Switzerland only. Switzerland is not part of the EU or the EEA, so the GDPR does not apply there directly; the European Commission does recognise Swiss data protection as adequate, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. Our model therefore scores it between EU hosting and hosting outside Europe. If you require strictly EU hosting, take this into account.

saldiaShop is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs saldiaShop together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to saldiaShop?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to saldiaShop include ablefy, SCAYLE and Actindo. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to saldiaShop?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to saldiaShop include Akeneo. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is saldiaShop GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

saldiaShop is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH. That makes saldiaShop an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in E-commerce

E-commerce: Online sales, webshops, e-commerce platforms and product information management. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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