Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Photos that sell Updated Markdown page
Photos for a local business website - what to photograph, taking them with a phone, uploading one or many at once, how Exponential makes sized variations automatically, file formats, alternative texts, permission from…
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Running it: a local business website after launch Updated Markdown page
Keeping a local business website on Exponential useful and safe after launch - a weekly, monthly and yearly routine that fits a busy owner, seasonal changes, and backups, updates, accounts and security in plain words.
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Backups, updates and security Updated Markdown page
What the owner of a local business must know about the safety of an Exponential site without being technical - backups and a yearly restore test, keeping Exponential updated, HTTPS, accounts and two-step sign-in, roles…
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Seasonal changes Updated Markdown page
Handling the seasons of a local business on its Exponential site - public holidays, summer and winter hours, the busy season, a seasonal menu or range, closing for a season - with drafts prepared ahead, date-based…
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Weekly and monthly routine Updated Markdown page
A website routine sized for a busy local business owner - fifteen minutes a week (hours, specials, messages, a look at the front page), an hour a month (form test, search terms, links, photos, platforms), and a yearly…
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A simple shop for a local business Updated Markdown page
The pages for a local business that wants to sell a little online with the shop built into Exponential - deciding whether a shop is worth it, a small catalog, PayPal and Authorize.Net payments, VAT, shipping and pickup…
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A small catalog Updated Markdown page
Setting up and keeping a small product catalog for a local business with the shipped product class - products, vouchers and gift cards, options such as sizes, photos and descriptions, sold-out and seasonal items, and a…
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Do you need a shop? Updated Markdown page
Questions that help a local business decide whether selling online is worth it - who would buy, what they would buy, who handles orders, payments, VAT and returns - with the lighter alternatives (an enquiry form, a…
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Payments: PayPal and Authorize.Net Updated Markdown page
How a local business takes payments in the Exponential shop - PayPal through ezpaypal (in the standard distribution, a redirect to PayPal) and card payments through ezauthorize (Authorize.Net, an on-site card form, a…
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Restaurant orders and what is not built in Updated Markdown page
What a restaurant, cafe or takeaway can do with an Exponential site - menu pages, specials, vouchers, catering requests, a pre-order shop for collection - and what is not built in - table reservations, delivery time…
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VAT, shipping and pickup Updated Markdown page
VAT and delivery for a local business shop on Exponential - VAT types and rules, prices shown with tax, the flat simple shipping workflow, pickup in the shop with the Ready for pickup status, local delivery by your own…
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Templates for local businesses Updated Markdown page
Fill-in templates for local business websites on Exponential - a website brief to send to partners, an opening hours content template with notice texts, and the related worksheets and agreement templates elsewhere in…
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Opening hours content template Updated Markdown page
Ready-to-fill texts for opening hours on a local business site - regular hours as a text block or matrix rows, split hours, appointment-only times, holiday and closure notices, seasonal hours and emergency notes…
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Website brief for a local business Updated Markdown page
A fill-in brief for a local business website on Exponential - the business, goals, pages, hours and locations, forms, shop, languages, outside services, who edits, hosting and support, budget and dates - ready to send…
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Keeping the help up to date: reviews, e-books and DITA Updated Markdown page
The list of help topics overdue for review, the e-books that are rebuilt when a topic is released, and the DITA export of the help.
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Managing members Updated Markdown page
Editors create, edit, enable, disable, move and remove the accounts of the site's front-end members in the Members group, through the role Member management; the accounts of administrators and editors stay out of reach…
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User manual Updated Markdown page
One question per page for the work in the Admin 4 administration - the tabs, the daily tasks of editors, and the tasks of administrators and site managers - with who may do it, the steps, what can go wrong and where to…
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A user lost their phone - how do they sign in again? Updated Markdown page
Edit the user's object, set the Two-step sign-in field to E-mail one-time code or Disabled and publish; the user signs in and sets up the authenticator app again.
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How do I add a content language? Updated Markdown page
Open Setup > Languages, click Add language, find the language under Language and country and click Add language; then add it to the siteaccesses that should show it and let editors translate.
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How do I add a currency to the store? Updated Markdown page
Click New currency in Store > Currencies, enter the code, the symbol and the formatting locale, then make it active and give it a rate; products with multi-currency prices then show a price in it.