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Managing a catalog in multistore mode
In multistore mode, some of the PrestaShop administration pages feature a prominent drop-down menu, titled "Multistore configuration for". This menu gives you the context of what you are doing: it enables you to set the shop or shop group to which the changes you are making are to be applied.
For instance, when creating a new product, the selection in this menu will determine whether the product will be available for all shop, only one shop group, or a single shop.
When editing a product, PrestaShop displays notifications to help you understand the scope of your changes. For instance, when editing a product while in the "Shop A" context, the notification will say "Warning, if you change the value of fields with an orange bullet, the value will be changed for all other shops for this product", with said orange bullet appearing on all the implicated fields, such as "Type of product", "Reference", the package's size, etc.
Likewise, if you change a product while in the "All shops" context or in the context of a shop group, some fields will be disabled: since they have a global impact, you cannot edit them. If you really need to edit this content, each field has a box that you can check to edit that field in all the shops under this context.
If you edit a disabled field, the product is created in all the shops of the context which do not already have it in their own catalog. Make sure to double check your context.
Data exchange between stores
Duplicating data between stores
Duplicated data in PrestaShop are set during the setup of any individual shop, by importing all or some of the content from an existing shop into the new one. The content that can be imported is varied: products, categories, employees, modules, cart rules, suppliers, etc. Data importation is done once and for all: once a store has been created, you cannot easily import data again from another store.
Sharing data between stores and store groups
Stores can share data. Shared data are fundamentally handled at the store group level: one of the important things to understand when dealing with PrestaShop's multistore mode is that all the stores within a store group can share the same details share data – or more precisely, three types of content: customers, available quantities, and orders. Once the store group is set, the sharing of data between its stores is mostly finished: while you can change the setting for the available product quantities, you cannot change the customers and orders settings anymore as soon as any store within the group as at least one customer or one order.
Sharing products and categories
When you create a new store within a group, you can choose to have all or some of the categories in the new store be exact duplicates of the categories in any other store on your installation of PrestaShop.
When creating a category, either for a specific store or for all the stores in the PrestaShop installation, PrestaShop registers the category for all the stores – it is simply hidden from any store where it has not been set.
By associating the new stores with a given category, any change in this category will impact all the stores which are associated with it, even if the stores are from different store groups. You can therefore change the category's content once and for all from one place, including its products.
Sharing customers and customer groups
As indicated above, stores within the same store group can share clients: all you have to do it set the proper option when creating the store group.
Groups are less detailed: if you change one of the default customer group in one store, the change is applied to all the other stores, regardless of the store group.
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.
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:
Go to your database management software such as phpMyAdmin.
Search for the table
ps_customer. It might be different, depending on your database prefix.Export this table.
Empty the table. Dot NOT drop it. If you do want to drop it, make sure you recreate the table afterwards.
Go back to the multistore settings for the shop group.
Enable the "Share customers" option.
Import the table.
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.
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:
Go to your database management software such as phpMyAdmin.
Search for the table
ps_order. It might be different, depending on your database prefix.Export this table.
Empty the table. Dot NOT drop it. If you do want to drop it, make sure you recreate the table afterwards.
Go back to the multistore settings for the shop group.
Enable the "Share orders" option.
Import the table.
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
To install a theme on PrestaShop, you must use the "Theme Import/Export" module to import the theme's zip file. Once that file is uploaded, the module will ask you some module-specific questions. When in multistore mode, it will also ask you whether you want to enable this theme with all stores in your PrestaShop installation, only some store groups, or only some specific stores – with the current stores being already selected. The theme will still be available for the non-selected stores, but will be disabled.
This setting can be changed: once a theme is installed on your PrestaShop, you can use the "Themes" page in the "Preference" menu to change the theme of the current store, or of the current store group, depending on how the "Multistore configuration for" selector is set.
Using specific settings for each shop/shop group
"Multistore configuration for" selector is the go-to option when you want your changes to have an impact on a given store or set of stores. It should even be the first option to look at when an administration screen opens up, as PrestaShop will change the available options depending on the context you are in: store, store group or all stores.
This makes it possible for you to:
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.
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