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Multi-Site Commerce

iAPPS 5.0 now features multi-site for Commerce. This means that you can have multiple websites that share a catalog or inventory information.

Each site can still only have one currency.

The multi-site will be set up by a developer and there will be no changes to your dashboard. Simply use the Switch Sites drop-down menu at the top of both the Admin Screens and Site Editor to switch sites.

What's shared and what's not shared

To help in the planning and set up of multi-site Commerce you should be aware of what is shared and not shared between Commerce setups in more than one site.

Shared

• product catalog (products)
• product attributes
• product types
• price (If you need a different price for a product, then use a price set).
• bundles and downloadable media
• tax categories (These come via an add-in from Cybersource and will remain the same for both sites.)
• product reviews

Not shared

• navigation categories (This means you will need to set up filters for the navigation categories separately for both sites, even if the categories are all the same.)
• price sets
• coupons
• featured products
• orders
• returns
• payments
• customers/website users
• customer groups
• site settings
• payment methods
• shippers and shipping options
• shipping containers
• email templates

It depends

• Reports
  • Reports are generally not shared and most information for them is not shared, except for those which have only product specific Information, such as Products Missing SKUs, etc.
  • If the warehouse is shared, then inventory reports will be shared. Otherwise they are not shared.
• Commerce Users
  • Users will be available in both sites, but their permissions will not transfer from one site to the other. An administrator will still need to assign permissions for the additional site(s).
• Customers
  • Customers are not shared by default, so the same email address may exist in both sites. If the sites need to share customers, developers can use custom code to share, using a stored procedure to insert the customers into the second site's database.
• The warehouse and inventory
  • By default the warehouse is not shared .However, a developer can set it up to be shared, but this must be done in the database, not through the admin UI.
  • The inventory is not shared by default. However if the warehouse is configured to be shared, then the inventory is shared.