How to Manage Multiple Stores in Prestashop using Leo Framework

When we should use multi-store?

- When you sell your product range and they cannot be present in the same store. For example, food and clothing, you cannot sell clothes on site selling food or vice versa.

- When you like the changes, instead you have 1 shop with full function of time you can have much more to change the look of your store to let customers enjoy.

- When you focus on the holidays or events, the multiple shop would be a reasonable choice for multiple shop was set how often based on events such as Christmas, Thanksgiving...

- When you have a trade and retail store selling products at retail and trade prices.

- When you have products selling in multiple countries but at different prices.

- When you build multiple stores with different branding and layouts.

Follow Our Steps and for Each Step, you should SAVE what you did for losing data and CLICK images for FULL SCREEN !

1. Export Data Sample 

At backend, choosing Module, at module list search Leo for finding Leo Framework and choose Leo Control Panel to configure. This step is carried out after finishing layout default and before creating Multiple Store.

2. Enable Multiple Shop

2.1 Active Multiple Shop. At References choose General, find Enable Multiple Shop and select Yes.

2.2 When multiple shop mode is active, in advanced parameters choose multistore to set up a new shop.

2.3 Click add a new shop and choose your shop name.

2.4 When choose the name stores you save and edit link for your new shop.

2.5 Set Virtual URL for your shop.

3. Create your theme

3.1 At references choose theme and select which shop for importing theme.

3.2 Choose a theme which you like for your shop.

3.3 Copy from layout and Fulfill the information of your shop

NOTE:

1. When you created all shop, remember to restore data for each new store.

2. Change the theme key for new stores on file config.xml contained in your Theme folder.

Recommendation:

- When you restore data, you should search all the name of your themes for not missing.

- Config module and css theme for the new shop

=> After css're done for all the shop

Enter their products are as follows:

+) Set up more 5, 6 categories

+) No need to enter each product for each shop that used one product for many shops are named Lorem Ipsum products for easy.

- Backup your data before performing multishop to avoid creating false cases it will not lose data.

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