Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Store performance at peak times Updated Markdown page
Keeping an Exponential store fast during a sale, a holiday season or a newsletter send - which pages can be cached and which cannot, the levers in order of effect, measuring before the peak, and a plan for the day.
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Store planning for small businesses Updated Markdown page
The decisions a small business makes before an Exponential store is set up - what to sell, where, in which currencies, how customers pay and receive goods, and who runs the orders.
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Store search and navigation Updated Markdown page
Helping customers find products in an Exponential store - categories and menus from the content tree, several locations per product, tags, the built-in search, Solr with facets through ezfind, and ratings.
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Store security checklist Updated Markdown page
The security tasks a store owner should check, in plain language - accounts and two-factor sign-in, shop permissions, payments, HTTPS, updates, backups, logs and the audit trail - with links to the detailed hardening…
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VAT rules and VAT types Updated Markdown page
How an Exponential store charges VAT or sales tax - fixed VAT types, VAT rules by customer country and product category, how the best rule is chosen, and what a business must confirm with its tax adviser.
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What the built-in shop does Updated Markdown page
A business owner's tour of the shop that ships with Exponential - its parts, the customer's path, the store staff's tools, and the things it does not do without an extension.
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Templates for businesses Updated Markdown page
The landing page of the templates section. Copy-ready templates for a business using Exponential - case study and interview guide, project brief, requirements, go-live, monthly operations, vendor scorecard, ROI…
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Annual review checklist Updated Markdown page
A copy-ready yearly review of an Exponential site for owners and managers - goals and figures, costs and ROI, availability, versions and updates, security and access, data protection and retention, backups, partners and…
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Case study interview guide Updated Markdown page
A copy-ready guide for interviewing a customer for an Exponential case study - preparation, the consent check at the start, questions by topic, how to record facts with their sources, and what to do after the interview.
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Case study template Updated Markdown page
A copy-ready template for a case study about a real Exponential project, written from the business's point of view, with the rules that every fact is real and approved and that a customer is named only with consent, a…
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Go-live checklist Updated Markdown page
A copy-ready go-live checklist for the business side of launching an Exponential site - content, legal pages, accounts, store and forms, security, backups, monitoring, communication and the decision to launch - linking…
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Monthly operations checklist Updated Markdown page
A copy-ready monthly checklist for keeping a live Exponential site healthy and safe - releases and updates, backups, logs and errors, security, accounts, jobs, content and forms - with where each check is done and a…
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Project brief template Updated Markdown page
A copy-ready project brief for a website application on Exponential - goals, audiences, scope, content, features, hosting, security and data, budget range, timeline, roles and how proposals are judged - to start a…
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Requirements checklist Updated Markdown page
A copy-ready business requirements checklist for an Exponential project, grouped by area (content, editing, users, store, forms, mail, languages, sites, search, apps, operations, security, accessibility), with the…
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ROI worksheet template Updated Markdown page
A copy-ready worksheet for the business case of a website application on Exponential - one-time and running costs, benefits from sales, time saved and avoided downtime, net benefit, ROI and payback - with the formulas…
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Vendor evaluation scorecard Updated Markdown page
A copy-ready weighted scorecard for comparing hosts and implementation partners for an Exponential site - criteria, weights, a scoring scale with evidence, a worked example of the arithmetic with example scores, and…
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Which section fits your organization Updated Markdown page
A short decision guide that matches the kind of organization and the kind of web application to the right part of the Businesses section, with the questions to answer first and typical combinations.
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Why businesses rely on Exponential Updated Markdown page
The reasons, each with its source, why an organization that earns money online can rely on Exponential: a long-lived code base, published versions that never change, few moving parts, speed under load, evidence when…
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Change the administrator password Updated Markdown page
Change the administrator password in the administration, for another user, or on the command line; how passwords are hashed and checked, what happens to sessions, and how to get back in when nobody can sign in.
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Accessibility Updated Markdown page
For CMS developers, building accessible sites on Exponential. It covers where the product stands against WCAG 2.2 AA, what the content model contributes (alternative text, headings, structured rich text), templates and…