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S-Cart Multi-Store — One admin, many sales websites

🚀 Link MultiStore PRO: https://gp247.net/en/product/multi-store-pro.html

Introduction

Multi-Store is a plugin that lets a business run multiple sales websites from a single admin system. This document is for business owners and operations managers (no technical background needed): after reading it you will understand what Multi-Store is for, the value it brings, how it differs from Multi-Vendor, and how the Free edition differs from Pro so you can pick the right fit.

1. What Multi-Store is and the problem it solves

When a business wants several different stores/websites — for example one domain per brand, one language/currency per market, or separate wholesale and retail sites — the usual approach is to build several standalone websites. The result: scattered data, many logins to manage, higher maintenance cost, and no single overview.

Multi-Store brings everything into one place:

• Many stores, one admin. Each store has its own domain, its own interface (template), its own language and currency — yet you manage them all from a single admin panel.
• Shared platform. Products, orders, and customers live in one system; no need to rebuild from scratch for each website.
• Lower cost and effort. Install once, operate in one place, update in one place — instead of maintaining several separate websites.
• Grow gradually. Start with one store and add new ones when needed, without rebuilding the system.

👉 Try it live on the demo site: https://demo.s-cart.org

2. How Multi-Store differs from Multi-Vendor

These are two different business models, and they cannot be installed together on the same website (the system blocks it to prevent data conflicts). Pick the right model:

Criteria	🏢 Multi-Store	🛒 Multi-Vendor
Who owns the goods	One owner (your business)	Many independent vendors selling together
Model	A chain of stores / multiple brands of one owner	An online marketplace
Who manages products	You (the system owner)	Each vendor lists their own products
Commission / payouts to third parties	None	Yes — commission splits and vendor payouts
Best when	You want several websites/domains for one business	You want to invite others to sell and earn commission

In short: Multi-Store = many stores that are all yours; Multi-Vendor = one marketplace for many sellers. If you need a marketplace model, look at the Multi-Vendor plugin instead of Multi-Store.

3. Free vs Pro

Multi-Store comes as a Free edition (free, enough to get started) and a Pro edition (unlocks every feature for large-scale operations).

Feature	🆓 Free	⭐ Pro
Number of stores	Up to 3 (including the root store)	Unlimited
Multiple domains, a distinct interface per store	✅	✅
Per-store language & currency	✅	✅
Per-store configuration	✅	✅
Strict domain validation (STRICT)	✅	✅
Dedicated administrator per store (logs in on that store's domain)	—	✅
Sync products to stores (publish root products to many stores, keep the source link)	—	✅
Unified dashboard (compare revenue / orders / average order value across stores, export to Excel)	—	✅
Product revenue report across the whole system (with per-store clones)	—	✅
Lock / unlock a store (the platform owner pauses a store)	—	✅

• Choose Free when: you are starting out, need up to 3 stores, and manage everything yourself.
• Upgrade to Pro when: you need more than 3 stores, want to hand each store to its own administrator, or need consolidated system-wide reports.

🚀 Link MultiStore PRO: https://gp247.net/en/product/multi-store-pro.html

4. Getting products into stores & granting admin rights

Two common workflows when running many stores — the Free edition is enough to start, the advanced parts are Pro:

• Post a product for a specific store (in Free): with Multi-Store installed, when creating/editing a product in the root admin you pick the store it belongs to — the product shows only in that store.
• Publish a root product to many stores (Pro): publish one root product to many stores from a single place (the "Sync products to stores" screen), each store getting an independent copy that keeps a source link and can be re-synced.
• Grant a dedicated administrator per store (Pro): hand each store to its own administrator (two presets ship: Store Admin / Store Member); they log in on the store domain, see only their scope, and cannot reach the root admin — every platform-wide action stays blocked no matter which permissions they hold.

🔗 The two Pro workflows above: gp247.net/en/product/multi-store-pro.html · Tiếng Việt

Install from the command line (CLI, gp247 3.x)

Since gp247 3.x you can download MultiStore from the GP247 library and install it straight from the command line, without opening the admin. Open a terminal in the website's root folder and run:

# 1) Once per website: register the (free) API License that connects the site to the GP247 library
php artisan gp247:ext-register-license

# 2) Download the plugin from the library and install it
php artisan gp247:ext-install --type=plugin --key=MultiStore

• Before step 1, make sure APP_URL in .env is the website's real domain (not http://localhost) — the license is bound to that domain.
• Once installed, the plugin is enabled and caches are refreshed automatically; nothing else is needed in the admin.
• The command checks the requirements declared in gp247.json (core 3.0, gp247/shop, required plugins, the rule against installing alongside Multi-Vendor) and stops with a clear message if something is missing.
• If the plugin folder is already in app/GP247/Plugins/ (copied manually or unpacked from the zip), the command installs it in place instead of downloading it again.
• The command refuses a plugin that is already installed. To move to a newer version, run php artisan gp247:ext-update --type=plugin --key=MultiStore.
• Append --json to get machine-readable output (for scripts/CI).
• More: Extension installation guide.

Documentation

The detailed guides live on the GP247 documentation site — one source, always the current version:

Document	Contents
Overview	What Multi-Store is, the problem it solves, how it differs from Multi-Vendor, Free vs Pro
Setup	Install and enable the plugin, create the first store, point a domain at it, verify
Operations	Per-store settings, getting products into stores, admin rights, orders and reports
Customisation	Per-store look and feel, wording, developer hooks
Product page	gp247.net — Multi-Store Pro
Vietnamese version of this README	README_vi.md

Conditions & Rules (know before you use it)

• Cannot be installed alongside Multi-Vendor — Multi-Store and multi-vendor are different models that share store data in conflicting ways. The system blocks installation if a multi-vendor plugin is present; remove the other plugin first, then install.
• The Free edition is limited to 3 stores (including the root store) — enough to get started; to add more, upgrade to Pro. This is the line between the two editions, not an error.
• The root (ROOT) store cannot be locked — the root store is the foundation of the whole system; locking it would take everything down, so this action is always blocked (locking is a Pro feature).
• Platform requirements: requires gp247/shop and runs on GP247 core 3.0 or later. This is an S-Cart/GP247 plugin, not a standalone product.

Q&A

Q1: Do I need to build a separate website for each store?

→ No. You install one system; each store is a domain pointing to that same system, all managed together in one admin panel.

Q2: Can each store have its own interface, language, and currency?

→ Yes. Each store configures its own template, language, currency, and settings — even though they share one platform.

Q3: Should I choose Multi-Store or Multi-Vendor?

→ Choose Multi-Store if all the stores are yours. Choose Multi-Vendor if you want different sellers on a marketplace and you collect commission.

Q4: How many stores can the Free edition run?

→ Up to 3 stores, including the root store. If you need more, upgrade to Pro (unlimited).

Q5: What is the most valuable thing Pro adds?

→ Per-store administrators, syncing products to many stores, a unified dashboard, system-wide revenue reports, and store locking — built for running many stores for real.

Q6: If I'm on Free and later upgrade to Pro, do I lose data?

→ No. Pro extends Free on the same platform; upgrading unlocks more features while your existing store data stays intact.

Q7: Where can I try it before deciding?

→ The public demo site: https://demo.s-cart.org

Q8: Why can't I install it together with a multi-vendor plugin?

→ The two models share store data differently, and running them together would corrupt data. The system blocks it to protect you; pick just one model that fits.

Q9: Where do I find detailed installation and configuration?

→ In the Setup guide and the Operations guide on gp247.net (the Documentation section above lists all four pages). Buying the Pro edition is covered on the product page.

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