Documentation
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Create Your Store
Store and Multi-Store Installations
Features that expand your number of Stores, including Geolocation redirects and GDPR cookie management
Create a Store
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Risk Management and Analysis
Identify and manage known risks when installing StoreConnect into an existing Salesforce Org -
Quick Start Self-Installer
Installs the StoreConnect application into your Salesforce Org -
Creating a Test Store
Creates a hidden Test Store on your site to play around or test features
Create Multiple Stores
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Multi-Store Support
Create multiple stores within the one Salesforce org -
Geolocation Auto Redirect
Redirect user based on geo-mapped location, change default geolocation store and location picker
Store Configuration
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How to Create Your StoreConnect User
One of the most fundamental requirements is a StoreConnect user -
Brand Pages
How to Make a Dedicated Brand Page -
How to Enable the Standard Price Book During Setup
How to enable the Standard Salesforce Price Book, an integral part of StoreConnect product pricing -
How to Customise and Create Your Own Workflows
Customise your workflows within the StoreConnect Apps on Salesforce -
Inviting Existing Contacts Into StoreConnect
Invite your users and contacts into Salesforce and StoreConnect -
Setting up a Custom Domain Name
Set up your custom domain name -
Setting up a Store-Wide email address
Customise the email address that is used as the default to notify customers of their order status - Assigning Page Layouts
Customise your Salesforce page layouts to access StoreConnect features
See also- How to Change a Page Layout Using the Product Page Layout as an Example
A video to demonstrate customising page layouts for first time users
- How to Change a Page Layout Using the Product Page Layout as an Example
- Currencies
Set up your store currency and learn how StoreConnect uses Salesforce’s multi-currency price books
See also- Supported Currencies
A full list of the currencies supported by StoreConnect
- Supported Currencies
- Configuring Zones
Zones limit countries you sell to, and also help define regional fixed-price shipping and taxes
Privacy and Security
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Cookie Management and Privacy Compliance
GDPR Compliant cookie and script manager for privacy compliance -
Single-Sign-On Support
Single-Sign-On is enabled via Customer Support)
Go-Live
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Migrating Data From Sandbox
How to migrate from sandbox, or staging (sometimes called, UAT) to production -
Preparing to Launch Your Store
A checklist to help you work out your own Go-Live process -
How to Test Your New Store is Working
Once you have gone live, what you should test as a minimum -
Taking Your Store Offline
How to take your store offline/unpublish it from the internet -
Performance Considerations
How to ensure your StoreConnect store can accept a high volume of orders -
Granting Support Access to your Salesforce Org
How to Grant the StoreConnect Support team access to your Salesforce Org -
Test Orders
How to do a test order on a live store without paying the Shared Success fee.
Store Design
Features to customise the design of your store including CSS, Liquid, Navigation, Media and Content Blocks
Theme Styling
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Add Your Own Favicon
Brand your store using your own favicon -
How to Customise the Design of your Store
Customise StoreConnect web pages using Custom and Fixed Content Areas -
Custom CSS Styling
Develop your own custom CSS styling to fully customise the look and feel of your store.
See also -
Add Third Party Integrations, Widgets and Code blocks
Add third party widgets and code blocks to include third party features and add-ons -
Theme Builder
Modify how StoreConnect looks for your store on a store by store basis, modifying templates, pages, assets and languages.
See also- Theme Page Code
Modify the basic structure and layout of your site. - Theme Content Block Code
Modify the in build Content Block types on your site, or create new ones. - Theme Liquid Snippets
Create reusable templates for use throughout your site.
- Theme Page Code
Page Building
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How to Customise the Design of your Store
Customise StoreConnect web pages using Custom and Fixed Content Areas -
Page Management
Management of the pages to be displayed online.
See also- Adding Content to Your Pages
How to add content to your pages - How to Use Markdown
Markdown is the primary method for adding text to your StoreConnect website. Knowing how it works and it’s limitations will make your content creation process that much simpler - Theme Pages Liquid Code
How to modify the default structure of the pages displayed via the Theme Builder.
- Adding Content to Your Pages
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Content Blocks, the Building Blocks of Pages
Build reusable Content Blocks to use within more than one page.
See also- Content Block Containers
Building Content Block containers - Content Block Templates
Building Content Block tempaltes - Nesting Content Blocks
Nesting Content Blocks using the Parent/Child concept - Naming Content Blocks
Naming conventions for Pages, Content Blocks and Media
- Content Block Containers
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Liquid Customisation
Use liquid GlobalDrop Tags (liquid code snippets) to add site customisations.
See also- Where Liquid Can Be Used
A list of all the pages, product pages, etc where you can insert liquid - Inserting Media Using Liquid
Inserting media on pages using liquid - Create a Product Form Using Liquid
Display an Add to Cart form on a page using liquid - Conditional Content Using Liquid
Liquidif, elseif endif
and other usage examples for displaying content based on preset conditions - Canonical Content with Liquid
Change what content is shown on your page depending on the URL and query parameters
- Where Liquid Can Be Used
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Articles (Blogs)
Add Blog articles and Related blog articles to your website -
Product tabs
Designed to highlight common product components such as Warranty, Product Features, etc
Media
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Media Management
Manage images, videos for use and re-use throughout the website.
See also- Adding Media to Products
Bulk uploading, product variants and adding a media object to a product - Standardise Images on Your Site Using Aspect Ratio
Keep your images uniform sizes across your site using standard aspect ratios - Adding SVG Media
The trick to adding SVG media
- Adding Media to Products
Navigation
- Navigation Product Categories
Allows the user to define which product categories are shown in the header - Menu Builder
User can build custom drop-down and mega menus - Creating a Custom Header
Customise your website’s header and make it your own
Sales
Products
Features to define and publish products such as physical products, subscriptions, event bookings and how best to sell them
Types of Products to Sell
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Physical Products
Management of available products for sale
See also- Product Listing Minimum Requirements
Details what minimum requirements are needed to list a product on your website - Product Pricing
How to set the prices of your products - Product Deposits
How to configure deposits for your Products - Product Categories
Group your products by category - Product Variants
Products that have variations such as colour, size, etc - Adding Products to Categories
How to add products to categories - Adding Media to Products
How to add media such as images to your products - Product Traits
How to use Traits for product filters and product specifications - Product Downloads
How to create downloadable links for your product pages for brochures, manuals, etc.
- Product Listing Minimum Requirements
Apart from physical products we also offer features to sell:
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Subscriptions Products
These are products where there is an associated recurring charge -
[Store Memberships]help document coming soon
Buy memberships, Restrict content (pages/articles) by membership, Membership pricing -
Bundles
User can build bundles of products to purchase at cart -
Events Booking System
The ability to set events and manage them such as training or seminar events -
Buy Button
A configurable link offering direct-to-cart or buy-now checkout onto any page
Marketing
Features that build brand awareness through Marketing, SEO, Analytics, Merchant Feeds and Product Reviews
Search Engine Optimisation
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SEO and Site Data
Include SEO metadata across your entire site.
See also- SEO Metadata
Include page, articles and product specific SEO meta data - Sitemap File
Find yoursitemaps.xml
file and learn what it includes - Robots.txt File
Find out more about therobots.txt
file
- SEO Metadata
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Canonical URL Support
Dynamic Page Information (canonical URLs) and meta property tag support -
URL Redirects
300, 301 redirect features and 404 custom page
Promotions
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Promotions
Using promotion codes at checkout -
Discounts
Allows you to discount products based upon a set criteria. -
Campaigns
Subscribe your customers to campaign mailing lists. -
Featured Products
Feature a set of products on any page -
Web Leads
Generate leads via a web form -
Signing Customers up to Mailing Lists
Sign up your customers to marketing email lists at the checkout -
SMS Marketing Campaigns
Send SMS messages to your customers using Pendula
Analytics
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Facebook Pixel
For Facebook marketing & re-targeted marketing purposes -
Google Analytics & Tag Management
For Google marketing & re-targeted marketing purposes -
UTM Tracking Feature
Ability to pass UTM campaign information through the sale process -
A/B Split Testing of Web Pages
Integrating with third party A/B Split Testing providers
Merchant Feeds
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Google Merchant Feed
Google merchant feed to integrate into Google shopping -
Facebook Catalogue (Merchant) Feed
Facebook merchant feed to integrate into Facebook shopping
Product Reviews
- [Google Review feed]help document coming soon
Parsing of google product reviews to the product page
Transactions
Features to notify, manage and process your product sales. Including payment gateways and international tax for global sales.
Notifications
Transactional Emails
A series of customisable emails confirming each step of the transaction and order flow
Payments
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Payment Gateways
An every-growing list of payment providers that include:- PayPal
- EWAY
- Stripe
- Square
- ZipMoney
- Authorize.net
- Bambora (Canada) payment gateways,
- SecurePay
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Pay by Subscriptions
User can buy subscription-based product/services -
[Pay by Account]help document coming soon
User can pay on account if they have one -
[Pay Later Options]help document coming soon
Create options to pay later like EFT, COD, Cheque etc. -
[Account Credit Feature]help document coming soon
Making a purchase using account credit or partial account credit with the balance on some other payment method
Tax
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[International Currencies & Payments]help document coming soon
Support for international stores using local currencies and payment methods -
Taxes
Define taxes that apply to products in specific regions (Zones) -
[International Tax Feature]help document coming soon
International purchases have the tax removed -
Calculate Taxes from Salesforce
Recalculate taxes on StoreConnect Orders - or calculate on new Orders - from Salesforce -
Avalara AvaTax
Use Avalara AvaTax to calculate taxes on StoreConnect Orders
Staff Assisted Orders
Staff Assisted Orders provides the ability to define a staff member as the one who assisted your customer with the sale
Account Deduplication
Account Deduplication of existing Salesforce Lead, Contact and Account records
Inventory
Stock Control
Features to help you manage your inventory as fixed stock or sell past zero, set stock locations and transfer stock from one location to another.
Stock management
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Stock Levels
Track and auto-decrement stock levels (optional) -
Stock Locations
Manage stock locations and
See also- Stock Transfers
Transfer stock from one location to another
- Stock Transfers
Shipping
Shipping Your Products
Features to help you ship your products using shipping providers, fixed rates or Click and Collect
Configure Shipping
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Configure Shipping
How to enable shipping for your store -
Shipping Rates
Shipping rates are used for fixed-price shipping or shipping costs by region -
Shipping Providers
Set up your shipping using providers such as Australia Post -
Click and Collect
Customers can Click and Collect your products
Customer Support
Unified Searching
StoreConnect’s Unified Search feature allows your customers to search Products, Product Categories, Pages, and Articles all from the one search bar
Live Chat
Add Third Party Live Chat Services to provide focused sales support to your customers
Web-to-Case
Salesforce Web-to-Lead and Web-to-Case integration offer web forms to capture sales enquiries or customer support requests directly into Salesforce
The StoreConnect Apps
Build Stores Using The StoreConnect Config App
Build new stores, configure shipping, site-wide SEO, cookies, custom CSS and more. Configure your stores using the many store-wide settings found within the StoreConnect Config App.
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Build Pages Using The Content Management System (CMS) App
StoreConnect utilises the technology of Salesforce objects, records and fields. Build your pages, customise content and manage store-wide media within Salesforce using the StoreConnect CMS App.
- Introduction to StoreConnect’s CMS
Learn more about the StoreConnect Content Management System
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Manage Stock Using The Stock App
Order management, statuses, stock adjustments, shipping statuses, products and more. The StoreConnect Stock App provides basic functionality to handle all stock related tasks.
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Manage Bookings with The StoreConnect Bookings App
Manage Bookings, Bookable location, Availabilities, Bookable Events and Attendees
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Screenshot of the StoreConnect Bookings App
Manage Store Operations Using The StoreConnect App
Central to your business operations is the StoreConnect App. Here you can manage your orders, products, your contact accounts, discounts and promotions. Most importantly, you can track your eCommerce performance using our straight-out-of-the-box Performance Dashboard, built entirely on Salesforce so you can customise it to your needs.
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Screenshot of the StoreConnect Performance Dashboard