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Budget worksheet A fill-in worksheet for the website budget of a local business on Exponential - one-time costs, yearly costs, outside services, own time, shop extras, totals over three years and a break-even line - with a column for… BusinessesCustomersLocal businesses Local business
GitHub for advocates How non-developer and developer advocates use GitHub for Exponential - following releases, reading and commenting on issues, reacting instead of +1, helping triage, documentation pull requests, reviewing, and staying… Advocates Advocacy and community
Multi-store and multisite Running several store fronts with Exponential - what is shared when siteaccesses share one database (orders, VAT, currencies, discounts, statuses), what can differ per siteaccess (currency, basket name, templates… Website creatorsBusinessesE-commerce E-commerce
Story: open source and licenses A feature story about why licensing made Exponential's survival possible - the GNU GPL that let a new steward continue the code after its creator stopped, contributions under the same license, the end of the paid… Press, media and influencers Press and media
Content commerce with Layouts Selling with content in Exponential - landing and campaign pages built with the Layouts editor that list products, time-limited rules for sales, editorial content next to products, and the line between layouts and the… EditorsBusinessesE-commerce E-commerce
Story: free documentation A feature story about Exponential's documentation as free documentation under the GNU FDL 1.3 - what readers may do with it, what it covers, the inherited pages with older terms, the free training books and the… Press, media and influencers Press and media
What needs an outside service The plain list for local businesses of what Exponential does not do by itself - business listings on map and search platforms, appointment booking, table reservations, restaurant ordering, POS integration, stock, coupon… BusinessesCustomersLocal businesses Local business
Which tracker for which report A decision table that sends every kind of report to the right place - the Exponential issue tracker, the Velocity tracker, an extension's repository, the community tracker, the private security address, the forums… Advocates Advocacy and community
Analytics for stores What an Exponential store can measure - the Store dashboard, order statistics, bestseller and also-bought fetch functions, view counts, search statistics and the audit trail - and what the bcwebsitestatistics extension… Website creatorsBusinessesE-commerce E-commerce
cjw_multisite An overview of cjw_multisite, the CJW starter site package of Exponential 6.0.15. What it installs, which packages and extension it needs, how to install it, and where the pages of this part go into detail. AdministratorsDevelopersDesignersHosting companies Installation and upgrades
Story: the help system A feature story about the help system of Exponential - the repository's own documentation inside the administration, searchable and filtered by audience, with context help on every page, safe rendering, PDF export and… Press, media and influencers Press and media
Store figures and exports Getting figures and data out of an Exponential store - the dashboard and order statistics, order data as JSON through the expservices order services, product data as CSV with ezcsvexport, the audit export, and what has… BusinessesCustomersE-commerce E-commerce
Story: admin4, the administration design A feature story about admin4, the administration design of the 6.0.15 line - light, dark and system color modes remembered per user, printing, system fonts, keyboard use, tested contrast and target sizes, no inline… Press, media and influencers Press and media
What cjw_multisite is made of The parts of the CJW starter site package one by one. The site package cjw_multisite and its settings files, the content package cjw_multisite_democontent, the required sevenx_classes, the extension that holds the… AdministratorsDevelopersDesigners Installation and upgrades
Product imports and migrations Loading a product catalog into Exponential - the ezcsvimport script and its file format, price and image columns, what it does not do (updates, header rows), converting prices to ezmultiprice, packages, code and remote… Website creatorsBusinessesE-commerce E-commerce
Story: the built-in shop A feature story about e-commerce built into Exponential - products, baskets, orders, VAT, currencies, PayPal - and the 6.0.x improvements such as the store dashboard, order statuses, permanent order receipts and order… Press, media and influencers Press and media
The demo content package cjw_multisite_democontent What cjw_multisite_democontent carries and how each part is used. The 40 content classes, the 138 object files, the simple files that point into cjw_themes_jumper, and the four side files cjw-class-additions.xml… AdministratorsDevelopersDesigners Installation and upgrades
Headless commerce with expservices Driving the Exponential shop over HTTP with the expservices extension - the commerce service domains (product, basket, order, payment, shipping, VAT, currency, discount, wishlist), authentication with sessions or API… DevelopersApplication creatorsE-commerce E-commerce
Story: the REST API A feature story about Exponential's REST content API - one extension serving versions 1 and 2, reads at both versions and writes at v2, permission checks on every call, OAuth2 tokens and personal API keys - for coverage… Press, media and influencers Press and media
The installer scripts of cjw_multisite What cjw-multi-site-installer.php and cjw-starter-install.php do during an install, in the order they do it. The settings it starts from, the pre-install, the INI settings, roles and preferences, the post-install steps… AdministratorsDevelopers Installation and upgrades

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