Sample Usages and Specifics
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Managing a catalog in multistore mode
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If you want to have different customer group for each store, you must create a new group and use the "Multistore configuration for" selector to associate the group with the current store or store group.
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If the option "Share customers" has been disabled, then your customer list will need to be empty before you can enable this. If you'd rather keep your customer list you can do the following:
Sharing customers between the shop group has now been enabled without the loss of customer information. |
Sharing orders
It is possible for stores within the same store group to share orders: all you have to do it set the proper option when creating the store group.
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If the option "Share orders" has been disabled, then your order list will need to be empty before you can enable this. If you'd rather keep your orders you can do the following:
Sharing orders between the shop group has now been enabled without the loss of order information. |
Using a different theme for each shop/shop group
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- Using different image formats for each shop/shop group
- Activating/configuring a module on a per-shop basis
- Positioning/displaying front - office blocks on a per-shop basis
- ...and so much more!
Managing CMS pages in multistore mode
When viewing the list of CMS pages in the "All shops" context, all the CMS pages from all shops are displayed. Likewise, when in a shop group context, the pages for all the shops in that group are displayed.
When creating a page in a shop group context, all the shops in this group will display this page, yet the page will be unique: editing it in one shop will apply the changes in all the shops from this group.
On the creation page, a section appears with a list, indicating which ones will be impacted.
Managing discounts in multistore mode
When creating cart rules or catalog price rules in a multistore context, an additional condition is available, with which you can choose the shops on which the rule should be available.
Web-service and multistore
Access to the web-service is also highly configurable, both at the shop level and at the shop group level. When creating a web-service key, you can choose to associate it to all shop, some shop groups, or select shops.