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What's the difference between a Magento Website, a Store and a Store View?

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Yeroon Avatar asked May 17 '11 07:05

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There's actually three things: A Website, a Store and a Store View.

The most important part about Websites is that each websites has its unique customer and order base.

Stores can be used to define for example different (looking) stores with the same information.

Store Views are mostly used to handle different languages on your website. You will typically have one Store View per language.

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Lucas Moeskops Avatar answered Oct 26 '22 21:10

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