Wednesday 29 June 2016

An Overview of Magento Multi-store Functionality

The absence of the geographical boundaries could be attributed for the success of Magento multi-store development, the buzzword of the e-commerce industry. Even though it splits the inventory into two or more stores, they are run from a single Magento installation. When majority of the online stores offer a single online store, Magento is the one and only e-commerce platform which facilitates a business to run multiple stores through a single backend interface. Moreover, all these stores are managed by the same admin panel making it easy and user-friendly. When a merchant possess more than one store, there are several challenges in developing and managing several websites which consumes more time, effort and money. The best way to manage the different stores is to own a Magento multi-store.

Some of the advantages of availing the Magento e-commerce development services for developing Magento multi-store are as follows.
  • Easy to install and operate
  • Versatile and has multiple features for the end users.
  • Possess a single administration, single list of orders, and a single hosting plan.
  • Easily visible for search engine results
  • Easy and intuitive navigation for the visitors
  • Order management and shipping setup is simplified
  • Secure payment gateway integration reduces the admin’s burden.
  • Use either one or several domains
  • Create an individual catalog for each store
  • Define manufacturers, products, and categories per store
  • Different default features for each of the store
  • Different language usage as per the country
  • Different currency and taxation as per the geographical area
  • Different payment and shipping methods as per the store location
  • Possess separate checkouts for different stores
Moving further, Magento multi-store is based on a simple website. Every Magento site will have at least one website, store and store view with hierarchies. It offers four hierarchical levels namely global, website, store and store view with each having a unique and dedicated role.


Global has the top position in the hierarchy and it includes default settings, inventory, installation and other relevant data useful for stores and store views. The website forms the second level of hierarchy and contains one or several stores which manages the products, consumers, taxes, pricing, currency, shipping, payment, orders, and, etc. The store forms the third level where the categories are displayed and managed on the front-end. The store-view forms the fourth level and is the store’s visual representation. It could be represented in multiple languages, currencies and different design templates. The Magento e-commerce web design templates could be customized based on the products the store possesses and the store requisites. 
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