Shops concepts

A Commerce shop, as it relates to the Commerce Engine, represents a collection of policies and configurations that are applied to one or more online storefronts or physical brick-and-mortar stores. Configurations include, for example, branding experience, geographic location, and franchise.

A shop can specify a particular environment that provides a collection of policies including location and method of entity storage.

A Commerce shop has been developed as a hybrid between:

The following figure shows an example structure of the shops configuration of the Commerce Control Panel:

For more information on accessing and using the Commerce Control Panel for configuring shops, see Commerce Engine and Storefront configuration settings