Hello dear readers of the rubric Learning Sessions.
Today we continue speaking about Opencart. The last article was devoted to new Opencart 2.0 functionality. If you want to know how the main features work, read here – “Quick use of the new Opencart version 2.0.1.1” Now is the time to share some knowledge about Opencart Multistore functionality.
Ok. Let’s start.
Almost all popular e-commerce platforms provide customers with the opportunity to create some stores in one site, which is called “multistore”. OpenCart allows you to create some stores with different look of Frontend, products and categories in one also. What are the benefits of such Multistore functionality arranging?
The essential points are:
- • You will have one administration panel allowing you to make all settings for different stores: creating blocks, adding products, categories, information pages etc. You will not have to enter each store separately and remember passwords for each one. As a result you will work faster.
- • You will have to make installation procedure of default OpenCart at once.
- • You will have possibility to save disk space on your server. As much stores as you need – your ability. However, they will all be disposed in one physical disk place.
- • You will not need the necessity of separate domain names creation for each store. The only one thing you have to do is to create subdomains for each sub store of your main shop.
So, if you decided to create a Multistore on OpenCart, do it! This can be done in some easy steps.
1. Make subdomains under your base domain
We will not explain how to do this due to the fact that such actions can vary for different hosting providers. If you have problem with hosting settings, ask your hosting manager about how to create subdomains.
As for our article, let’s call our main domain: mydomain.com
Subdomain will be called: second.mydomain.com.
2. Add new store and settings for it in administration panel of OpenCart
Go to admin panel: System -> Settings -> Add new.
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