Operating a store
This part is for everyone who keeps an Exponential store working well over months and years: merchants, store managers, developers and agencies. The daily, weekly and monthly routines are already in Running your store; these pages cover the topics around them.
Contents
The pages of this part
| Page | For |
|---|---|
| Testing a store | A test plan from catalog to refund, test data and test mail |
| Store accessibility | Making product pages, basket and checkout usable for everyone |
| Multi-store and multisite | Several store fronts, brands or languages on one installation |
| Content commerce with Layouts | Landing and campaign pages that sell |
| Analytics for stores | What the store measures itself and what an analytics service adds |
| Store figures and exports | Getting figures and order data out |
| Product imports and migrations | Loading a catalog from a file or another system |
| Headless commerce with expservices | Basket, orders and products over HTTP for apps and scripts |
| Commerce audit trail | Who changed orders, payments, VAT, currencies and discounts |
| Operations calendar | The recurring work of a year |
| Decision checklists | Short checklists for the decisions that come up |
| Troubleshooting checkout | Symptoms, causes and fixes |
Which page for which moment
| Moment | Read |
|---|---|
| Before launch | Testing a store, Store accessibility, Store launch checklist |
| Moving from another shop system | Product imports and migrations |
| A campaign | Content commerce with Layouts, Peak season preparation |
| Month end | Store figures and exports, Store monthly checklist |
| Something went wrong | Troubleshooting checkout, Commerce audit trail |
| Planning the year | Operations calendar, Decision checklists |
Related pages
- E-commerce: start here
- Running a store day to day
- Store performance at peak times
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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