Store Groups

Store Groups allow you to define a group of affiliate stores that can be configured together as one. This article describes how to make a store group and set up its default properties, and how to use the store group page to make configuration changes for all stores in a group. To assign a store to a group, browse to Admin > Websites > Manage > Administration > Group Settings.

Prerequisites

• You must have administrator access to use this feature
• This feature is only available on multi-store plans

To Configure Store Groups:

1. Log into your DecoNetwork Website.
   
2. Browse to Admin > Websites.
3. Select Store Groups.
   

   The Store Groups configuration page is shown in the main work area.

4. Configure your store groups.

   You can add a new group by clicking the New Group button. You can see a list of configured groups which you can modify by clicking Edit. You use the Delete button to remove a group. You can also set up default group properties:

   • Default Group for New Store will assign new stores to the group selected in the drop-down list.
   • Default Group for New Campaigns will assign new campaigns to the group selected in the drop-down box.
     

   When editing or creating a new group you have several configuration options. The edit/new page gathers all configurations that can be made via groups into one dialog for faster access to group-based configurations. The configurations you may set are:

   
   • General
     

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     • Commission Rate sets the sales commission being paid to each store in the group.
       • Name: lets you edit the name of the store group.
       • Automatically assigned salesperson: lets you select a salesperson who will be automatically assigned to all orders placed on this store through the website and Business Hub.
     • Contract Price Level (Premium and Enterprise levels only): Lets you choose a pricing level to be applied to product prices for the store group. Contract price levels are the different tiers of selling prices that you offer your affiliate stores and customers. (See the Contract Price Levels help article for more information).
       • Default (Retail): will use the system default pricing level. The default name for the default pricing level is "Retail". The name can be changed via Admin > Products > Contract Price Levels. However, this pricing level can never be deleted.
       • Retail: will use the system-defined retail price table or specified pricing method for the selling price.

       Please note that the contract price level assigned to a store will override the one assigned to a product group, and the contract price level assigned to a customer will override the one assigned to a store.

   You can configure the permission settings for each of the following categories. Select either Default, Allow, or Deny for each item in each category.

   • Coupons sets which coupons the store group can use.
   • Shipping methods sets which methods are available to each store in the group.
   • Product Groups defines store group-level access to products based on their assigned product group. (Only available if the product groups app is enabled.)
   • Blank products will list all available supplied products, and access to them can be set at the group store level.
   • Manual payment methods sets which non-payment gateway methods the stores in the group are allowed to use.

   If the master availability setting for an item is set as Business Hub only, the item row is highlighted to indicate this.

   
5. When you are done, click Save.