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One of the great features of PrestaShop is called "multistore", meaning the ability to manage multiple shops from the same back - office.

Thanks to this feature, you can manage many customized shops, which share many common elements. For more efficiency, you can even create groups of shops.

Using the multistore feature

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How to decide if you need the multistore feature

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If the answer is 'no' to both questions, then the multistore feature is not for you.

One back-office to rule them all

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Enabling the multistore feature

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In the following table, we indicate if the item can also be customized for a single shop, for a group of shops, or for all shops at once.

Item

Per shop

Per shop group

All shops

Employees

X

X

X

Customer groups

X

X

X

Products

X

X

X

— Prices

X

X

X

— Combinations and prices

X

X

X

— Languages

X

X

X

— Multiple images (except for the main image)

X

X

X

— Available quantity for sale, provided that:

  • The "Share quantity available for sale" option is checked for the group,
  • The group does not share its quantity available for sale outside of the group.

X

X

 

— All other information (description, tags, friendly URL, etc.)

X

X

X

Catalog values and attributes

X

X

X

Discounts: cart rules

X

 

 

Discounts: catalog price rules

X

 

 

Taxes: tax rules

X

X

X

Categories (except for the main image)

X

X

X

Carriers

X

X

X

Warehouses

X

X

X

Advanced stock management

X

 

 

Suppliers

X

X

X

Manufacturers

X

X

X

CMS pages

X

X

X

Contacts

X

X

X

Countries
A country's status (enabled or disabled) is common to all shop it is associated to.

X

X

X

Currencies

X

X

X

Languages

X

X

X

Modules

X

X

X

— Hooks and exceptions

X

X

X

— Enabling/disabling

X

X

X

— Configuration (for instance, Paypal login credentials)

X

 

 

Payment modules

X

X

X

— Per-country restrictions

X

 

 

— Per-currency restrictions

X

 

 

— Per-customer group restriction

X

 

 

Friendly URLs

X

 

 

Scenes

X

X

X

Web service account

X

X

X

Homepage image slider

X

 

 

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Categories: A product can only appear in a given category of a shop if it has been associated to this category in that shop's context. In other words: if shop A and shop B have the C category in common, we can associate the P product to the C category for the A shop's context, and P will not appear in category C on shop B.

Carriers: You can manage the carriers association on a per-shop basis, a per-shop-group basis or for all shops; but you cannot customize a carrier on a per-shop basis. You must duplicate the carrier if you want to use the same carrier with different price ranges on two shops.

Warehouses: While advanced stock management can only be used for a single shop at a time, warehouses can be used with shop groups, and you can simply manage the warehouses in order to have advanced stock management.

For each shop, you can set specific price for every products, share part of the catalog or the whole of it, change product images, etc.

You can choose to share the customer accounts between your shops, enabling your customers to use the credentials between all shops, and even be transparently signed-in to each.

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Turning your single-shop PrestaShop installation into a multi-shop one is very simple:

  1. Log-in to your shop's administration.
  2. Go to the "Preferences" menu and select the "General" page.
  3. Find the "Enable multistore" option, select "Yes".
  4. Save your changes.

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There you go: the multistore feature is now in place, starting with the addition of the "Multistore" page under the "Advanced parameters" menu. This is the page were you will manage the various shops created with this PrestaShop installation.

Using the multistore feature

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