Creating Custom Stores

Learning Experience Team

March 05, 2021 01:32

Custom Stores allow you to segment products with pricing only available to those you allow access to the Store, or if you want to use a different payment provider or warehouse other than your standard options.

Key points:

You select your custom Store for certain Inventory or inventory prices making them only available in the Store.
You map a payment provider to your custom Store.
You restrict who can access the store based on their Associate Type, Rank, Region, or other Multi-faceted Configurations.

Products available in different Stores must be purchased in separate transactions.

To create a custom Store:

Add a new store in Corporate Admin.
Edit an existing Price Adjustment or set up a new one for your Inventory Items, tied to your new Store.
Set up a new warehouse and shipping method.
Edit an existing payment provider map or add a new one that’s tied to your new Store.
Add a custom shopping cart in Web Office Admin.

Steps specific to custom stores:
- Select Custom Shopping Cart in the Cart Type dropdown.
- Select your Shipping Method created in step 3 in the Default Ship Method dropdown.
- Select your Store name in the WebID dropdown.
  
  After adding the cart, copy the CartID from the Cart Type column (your CartID will look similar to this: c72525ca-eae1-439f-b4e2-9681c50aee6d).
Add a new navigation link.:
- In the Link Name field, copy and paste the following URL:
  
  /OrderProductList?storeTitle=[STRING KEY OF STORE NAME]&cartId=[CART ID FROM ADMIN]
- In the URL, replace:
  - [STRING KEY OF STORE NAME] - The new Store’s name is formatted with underscores instead of any spaces (i.e., New_Store_Name)
  - [CART ID FROM ADMIN] - The Card ID you copied from step 5.
    
    This URL is extremely case-sensitive and must be entered in the exact format. For example, /OrderProductList?storeTitle=New_Store&cartId=c72525ca-eae1-439f-b4e2-9681c50aee6d.
In navigation link configuration, use Multi-Faceted Configuration to restrict who can see the link (and, therefore, access the Store). You can use the Custom Configurations field for more advanced and specific customization. For example, User.AssociateEnrollmentDate <= '2021-03-04'.
Open Web Office (via direct link or Impersonate in Office) and test the link in the navigation bar. If successful, a Web Office Store will display your new Store’s specific products.