Global Store Options

The Global Store Options settings let you control how key store behaviors, branding rules, signup options, and shared website functionality work across your entire DecoNetwork multi-store environment.

These settings act as global business instructions that influence how affiliate stores behave throughout the platform. Configuring these options carefully helps create a consistent onboarding experience, standardize branding expectations, and control how stores interact with customers and your fulfillment center.

In This Article

• Prerequisites
• Why This Matters
• Step 1: Open Global Store Options
• Step 2: Configure New Store Signup Templates
• Step 3: Configure Fulfillment Center Display Options
• Step 4: Configure General Store Settings
• Step 5: Save Your Settings
• Best-Practice Tips
• Troubleshooting
• FAQs
• Additional Resources

Prerequisites

Why This Matters

Global Store Options determine how important functionality behaves across your primary store and affiliate stores.

• Control branding consistency across your store network.
• Define how affiliate stores interact with customers and your fulfillment center.
• Manage how new stores are created and configured.
• Control which global website features are available to affiliate stores.
• Ensure customer-facing behavior follows your operational and business requirements.

Step 1: Open Global Store Options

Open the Global Store Options page to configure website behavior across all stores in your DecoNetwork environment.

1. Log into your DecoNetwork Website.

2. Browse to Admin → Websites.

   

   

3. Select Store Options.

   

   The Global Store Options page contains settings that apply across your entire store network.

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Step 2: Configure New Store Signup Templates

Configure how new stores are created and whether affiliate stores must use predefined store templates.

1. Locate the New store signup template section.

2. Configure the available options:

   New store signup template

   You can control whether your primary store and affiliate stores can use templates based on stores that you have created to predetermine the products, designs, and look and feel of their store.

   
   • Enable new store signup templates: Tick this checkbox to enable a defined store template to use to set up your primary store and affiliate stores. If left un-ticked, the default template will be used.
     • Force stores to select a template: Tick this checkbox to force affiliate stores to select a template when they sign-up. If left un-ticked, the default template will be applied.
     • Stores can override this option for their sub-affiliate signups: Tick this checkbox to allow affiliate stores to override this option for affiliates that sign up under them.

   See Clone Store Settings for details on how to enable stores to be used as templates.

   Store templates help standardize onboarding and reduce setup time by preloading configuration choices the system will continue using throughout the store lifecycle.

   Use templates when onboarding franchise groups, schools, fundraising stores, or sales teams that require consistent branding and predefined product selections.

Step 3: Configure Fulfillment Center Display Options

Configure whether fulfillment center contact details are displayed alongside affiliate store information.

1. Locate the Fulfillment Center display options section.

2. Use the Show fulfillment contact details dropdown list to choose how fulfillment center information is displayed.

   

   Choose how fulfillment center details are displayed across stores.

   Select one of the following options:

   • Stores must show: Select this option to force your affiliate stores to show your Fulfillment Center contact details as well as their own store contact details.
   • Let stores decide: Select this option to allow affiliates stores to decide if they want to show your contact details on their websites. If this option is selected, stores can choose to hide your contact details via Admin → Branding and Appearance → Website Page Options.
   • Stores never show: Select this option to prevent your Fulfillment Center contact details from being displayed on affiliate store websites.

   If fulfillment center contact details are configured to display, policy pages such as Privacy Policy and User Agreement pages may show fulfillment center business details instead of affiliate store details.

   This setting affects storefront branding presentation and customer-facing ownership visibility throughout the shopping and support experience.

Step 4: Configure General Store Settings

1. Configure additional store-wide behavior that controls signup flow, affiliate functionality, customer experience, and storefront options.

   

   General Store Settings control customer-facing and affiliate store functionality.

   • Validate store owner email: Tick this checkbox if you want affiliates to validate their email before they can access their store.

   • Show 'Create Store' link: Choose an option to determine whether the 'Create Store' link is displayed in affiliate store websites.

     • Always: Select this option to force the 'Create Store' link to always be displayed.
     • Never: Select this option to prevent the 'Create Store' link from ever being displayed.
     • Let store decide: Select this option to allow affiliate stores to decide if they want to show the 'Create Store' link.
     • Only on main site: Select this option if you only want to show the 'Create Store' link on your primary website.

     If the settings are configured to show the 'Create Store' link, the 'Show your own Store' link is displayed in the footer at the bottom of every page.

     
   • Hide link when plan allowance is exceeded: Tick this checkbox to automatically hide the 'Create Store' link after the number of stores allowed for your plan has been reached.
   • Allow Request Quote: Tick this checkbox to allow affiliates to add the 'Request Quote' page to their stores. Affiliates can control if the page is displayed in their Website Pages settings.
   • Allow Quick Quote: Tick this checkbox to allow affiliates to add the 'Quick Quote' page to their stores. Affiliates can control if the page is displayed in their Website Pages settings.
   • Text only 'Powered By' links: Tick this checkbox to display the 'Powered by DecoNetwork' text link at the bottom of store pages. Clicking on the link will load the DecoNetwork website.
   • Store sale notification: Tick this checkbox if you want the store owner to receive an automatic email notification when an order is placed on their store.
   • Share saved layouts: Tick this checkbox if you want to allow a customer's saved layoutA saved layout is a designer instance saved by a customer, but not purchased. from an affiliate store to be available for use through the primary store in Business Hub.
   • Require reCaptcha on all store signup pages: Tick this checkbox to force reCaptcha on the Signup page. The reCaptcha tool requires users to complete a test to prove they are human. This can be overridden at the widget level.

   • Available Currencies: lets you select the currencies to be supported on your websites. By default, all currencies will be supported. Click on the Select Currencies button to open the currency selector to filter the list of supported currencies.

     

     The Select Currencies popup allows you to select the particular currencies you want to be available in the currency selector dropdown on your storefronts. The selected base currency in your Admin Localization settings will be the default currency selected in your storefront currency selector.

Step 5: Save Your Settings

1. Review your configuration choices.
2. Click Save.

Your updated global store settings will immediately apply across your DecoNetwork store network where relevant.

Best-Practice Tips

• Use store templates to standardize onboarding for franchise or group stores.
• Limit currencies to those you actively support operationally.
• Require email validation to reduce spam or fraudulent store signups.
• Review fulfillment center branding visibility settings regularly.
• Test affiliate signup workflows after changing store creation settings.

Troubleshooting

Affiliate Stores Cannot Create Stores

• Check the Show 'Create Store' link setting.
• Verify your plan allows additional stores.
• Confirm the Hide link when plan allowance is exceeded option is not hiding the link.

Fulfillment Center Details Appear Unexpectedly

• Review the Show fulfillment contact details setting.
• Check affiliate store branding configuration.
• Review policy page ownership behavior.

Customers Cannot Select Certain Currencies

• Verify the currency is enabled in Available Currencies.
• Check your localization settings.
• Confirm the storefront currency selector is enabled in your theme.

FAQs

Do Global Store Options affect all stores?

Yes. These settings apply globally across your primary store and affiliate stores where relevant.

Can affiliate stores override global settings?

Some settings allow affiliate stores to control their own behavior, depending on how the fulfillment center has configured the options.

Will changing settings affect existing stores?

Yes. Many global store options immediately affect existing storefront behavior and customer-facing functionality.

Can I limit which currencies are available?

Yes. Use the Available Currencies setting to choose which currencies customers can select in storefronts.

Additional Resources

• Website Store Options
• White Label Affiliate Stores