PrestaShop Multi-Shop configuration

PrestaShop’s Multi-Shop feature lets you manage several online stores from a single back office. Each shop can share products, customers, modules, and settings—or be entirely independent. This is especially useful if you want to run multiple brands, country-specific shops, or B2B/B2C versions of your site.

Here’s a step-by-step guide to configure Multi-Shop in PrestaShop:

1. Enable Multi-Shop

1. Go to your PrestaShop Back Office.
2. Navigate to Advanced Parameters → Multistore.
3. Click Enable Multistore → Yes.
4. Save settings.

2. Create Shop Groups

• Shop Groups let you define rules that apply to multiple shops at once (like sharing stock, customers, or orders).
• Go to Advanced Parameters → Multistore → Add new shop group.
• Options when creating a group:
  • Share customers → All shops in the group will use the same customer base.
  • Share available quantities to sell → Useful if you want stock shared across shops.
  • Share orders → Customers can see their order history across all shops in the group.
  • Status → You can enable/disable the group.

⚠️ Important: Once a group is created with “share customers” or “share orders” enabled, you can’t disable it later.

3. Create a New Shop

1. Go to Advanced Parameters → Multistore → Add new shop.
2. Choose:
   • Shop Group (the one you created earlier).
   • Category Root (this is the root category for your shop’s catalog).
   • Theme (you can use a different theme per shop).
3. Click Save.

4. Assign a URL to Each Shop

• After creating a shop, you must assign it a domain or subdomain.
• Go to Advanced Parameters → Multistore → Shop URLs.
• Add new URL:
  • Domain: example.com or shop1.example.com
  • SSL domain (if different)
  • Physical URI: Path where PrestaShop is installed (usually /).
  • Virtual URI: A subdirectory (like /store2/).
• Save, and your shop will be accessible at that URL.

5. Configure Products, Modules, and Settings per Shop

• Use the Multistore context dropdown (top of admin panel) to select:
  • All Shops
  • A Shop Group
  • A Single Shop
• Depending on context, any changes you make (products, modules, design) will apply only to that selection.

6. Managing Products

• You can:
  • Share products across shops.
  • Or create shop-specific products.
• Go to Catalog → Products, switch context, and manage products per shop.

7. Managing Modules

• Some modules can be enabled/disabled per shop.
• Module configuration can also be shop-specific (depending on the module’s design).

✅ Example Use Cases:

• One domain, multiple languages → Use Multistore with language-specific shops (example.com/fr/, example.com/de/).
• Multiple brands → Each shop with its own theme, products, and customer base.
• B2B & B2C → One shop for wholesale pricing, another for retail.