Understanding Scopes (for multi-sites or multi-languages)

Scopes Overview

Scopes are how you can operate with different Marketplaces, or different languages for the same Admin Portal. Depending on the content or configuration, you may be able to set different options or terminology from one website to another based on the scope. You may see this across multiple sections of the Admin Portal, from pages, products, and configurations.

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NOTE
If you only have one website and not managing different languages from the Admin Portal, this is generally not required.

Scope	Details
Global	Mostly used in configurations, this is the highest level of default settings used for all Marketplaces for this installation
Website	Used primarily for when you have multiple Marketplaces on the same Admin Portal. EG you may have 2 different websites as 2 different companies with different branding, name and products. This is where you can have top level configuration that isn't Global.
Store	A Marketplace can have multiple stores. Stores are used when you follow the same branding, but have different Content. This is mostly used for having different root category configuration.
Store View	Each Store View under a Store can be used primarily for different languages and currency symbol configuration. You may have an English, Spanish and Thai Store View under the one store so that the content can be displayed for the Customer depending on the Store View they are seeing on the Marketplace.

It is important to note that settings cascade from Global > Website > Store > Store View. Meaning if you specifically have a different configuration from the default setting, the right most scope will take into effect.

Accessing the different Stores

You can see all stores from Stores > Settings > All Stores.

Here you will see a grid for all stores currently implemented in the Admin Portal. By default, you should have one.

Website Code: base

Store Code: main_website_store

Store View Code: default

See below an example of a multi-site an multi-language implementation.

Managing Configurations

When configuring fields in Store > Configurations, you may see some fields are locked depending on the scope you select (from the top left) - with a checkbox on the right.

System Value / Default

This will be the default setting when first configured.

Scope (Website, Store, or Store View)

If you choose not to use System Value, you will then override the default settings with the configuration you set here.