Help for E-commerce

Sell online with Exponential: the shop, products and prices, VAT, orders, payments and running the store day to day.

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E-commerce: start here The hub for everyone who sells online with Exponential - merchants, store managers, e-commerce developers a...
E-commerce reading path The order in which to read the E-commerce section and the store pages it builds on, in four stages (decide,...
Paths by role Who does what in an Exponential store - merchant, store manager, developer and agency - with the shop polic...
Merchant path A reading and decision path for the merchant who owns an Exponential store - the decisions only the owner c...
Store manager path A path for the store manager who runs an Exponential store every day - the Store tab screens, the permissio...
Developer path A path for the developer who builds or extends an Exponential store - the code map of the shop, the extensi...

Agency path

A delivery path for agencies and partners who build Exponential stores for clients - discovery questions, scoping what the kernel does against what must be built, a build order, test and handover packages, and…
Catalog modeling

How an Exponential store's catalog is built from content classes, price fields, option fields, product categories and folders - an overview of the catalog pages, the products overview screen, and the questions to answer…
Catalog modeling in depth

Designing product classes for an Exponential store - one class or several, the fields a product needs, item numbers, relations, folders and several locations, translations, and models that import and report well.
Price fields compared

The two price datatypes of the Exponential shop side by side - ezprice and ezmultiprice - with VAT included or excluded, the class defaults, custom and automatic prices per currency, the update buttons of the currency…
Options and variants

Letting customers choose size, color or extras in an Exponential store - the four option datatypes, how a choice is stored with the basket item and the order, the add-to-basket form, and when separate products are the…
Product categories and VAT rules

How VAT by customer country and product category really works in Exponential - the VAT handler that must be switched on, product categories as tax classes, how the default handler ranks VAT rules, the customer's…

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