Shops concepts
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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:
- details specified in Sitecore XC as part of bootstrap, and
- details specified in the Commerce Control Panel
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, seeĀ Commerce Engine and Storefront configuration settings
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