Core Commerce’s multisite feature allows you to build and launch new sites quickly, and to manage brands, country stores, and other differentiators efficiently across multiple channels. This section describes some of the aspects of multisite that are important in a Core Commerce application.
Site Context: Within a user’s session, the site context identifies what catalogs, products, or SKUs are available to the user, which price list to apply, and which shopping cart to use.
Site Membership: Defines the sites to which a catalog and its items belong. These items can include catalogs, categories, products, SKUs, and catalog folders. Catalogs and other items can belong to more than one site.
SiteIdForItemDropletandSiteLinkDroplet: These platform droplets (see the Page Developer's Guide) are useful for Core Commerce developers. Items that appear in multiple catalogs can be displayed together; when a customer selects one, you can specify which site’s version of the details to use.Shopping Cart: The cart tracks the site on which it was created (when the customer adds the first item), on which each item was added, and on which the most recent activity occurred.
Scheduled Orders: These orders include site information when creating and pricing orders.
Gift, Purchase, and Wish Lists: All of these track the site on which they were created and on which each item was added.
Shared Carts and Wish Lists: You can configure shopping carts and gift/purchase/wish lists to be shared among sites.
Searching: Search form handlers are site-aware and can be constrained by site.
Reports: All Core Commerce reports include site information. See the Reports Guide.
Information on the multisite uses of Core Commerce features can be found throughout this guide, where applicable. See the Multisite Administration Guide for general information on implementing multisite in Core Commerce applications. For specific information on multisite within Core Commerce, refer to the Configuring Core Commerce for Multisite section of this book.
