Your store inside your website
The "Show my store inside my website" switch for Ellibo Ecommerce stores - where it is, why store changes don't show until it is on, what changes, redirects and turning it off.
If your business sells with Ellibo Ecommerce, each online store already is a website. It shows in your list under Websites with a shop mark and the label Online store. You don't need a separate website for it, and it never uses one of your plan's websites.
Why can't I edit my store, or why don't my changes show?
Every store starts with the switch off. While it is off, the store's address still shows the store's own Ecommerce pages, menus and look. So:
- the store's website in Website has no pages to edit yet, and
- a theme colour or page you change in Website doesn't show to shoppers.
Turn on Show my store inside my website for that store, and from then on you design it in Website. Website reminds you on the Websites list, at the top of Pages, Blog, Menus and Theme, and in the editor while the switch is off.
The switch
Only a Website Admin can change it.
| Switch | What visitors see at the store's address |
|---|---|
| Off (the start) | The store exactly as today: its own home page, pages, blog and look from Ecommerce |
| On | Your website: home, pages and blog from Website, with Website's header, footer and theme, and the shop inside it |
Turn it on
- In Website, open Websites in the left menu.
- Find your store (shop mark, labels Online store and Store shown on its own).
- Click Show my store inside my website on the store's card. (It is also under the card's Settings button.)
- Read the short list of what happens and click Show it inside.
You can also click the same button in the notice at the top of Pages, Theme and Menus, or in the editor, while that store is picked.
The first time you turn it on, the store's home page, pages, legal pages, blog posts, menus and look (colours, font, logo, social links, footer text) are copied into Website, so nothing is lost. Ecommerce keeps its own copies.
What changes when it is on
- Same address. The store keeps its address and its own domain. Nothing to change at your domain company.
- The shop lives inside. The shop pages open at
/shop,/product/...,/cart,/checkoutand/account, in your website's look. - Home, pages and blog come from Website. Edit them in Website like any other website: Edit home page, Pages, Blog, Menus and Theme on the store's card.
- Products, prices, stock, payments, delivery and tax stay in Ecommerce. Orders arrive in Ecommerce as before.
- Old addresses keep working.
/p/...page and/blog/...post addresses take people to the new pages, so search results and old links still work. - Changes can take up to about a minute to show, while the store's short page memory refreshes.
Ecommerce's own design screens (pages, blog, menus, theme) show a note that the store is designed in Website while the switch is on.
Turn it off
Turn it off at any time from the same place (the store's Settings in Websites). The store goes back to exactly how it was, with its own home page and look from Ecommerce. Your Website pages are kept, ready for next time.
Plans
The switch works on every Website plan. Your Website plan sets which editing features you have - for example the blog and every block from Standard.