Application of Knowledge - 4.2 Internationalization / Multisite

Question 1

Multisite infrastructure

Answer 1

• Multiple Magento sites (store_website table)
• One server solution. Cheapest / easiest.
• Multiple servers:
• Connected to one single database
• More scalable, but database could become the bottleneck.
• Replicated
• Challenging, but database should be scalable at this point.
• Completely separate, same codebase
• Separation in orders, customers, configuration.
• Used for different server locations and no continuity with data.

Question 2

Websites, stores, store views

Answer 2

• Website: the brand / idea being sold.
• Stores: a segment of a product offering. Where the root category is set. Likely the least used of the three categories.
• Store view: the language presented to the customer.

Question 3

Localization

Answer 3

• Targeting website at a specific language or nationality.
• Magento is very localizable. Settings for this is found in Store > Configuration > General > General > Locale Options
• Timezone
• Locale / language
• Weight unit
• First day of week
• Weekend days
• Magento does not handle other calendars.

Question 4

International taxes

Answer 4

• Easy to target other countries with Stores > Tax Zones and Rates.
• Specify country name and enter the percentage.
• Should reference an international tax lawyer for what rates apply where.

Question 5

Multisite shipping

Answer 5

• Shipping from multiple warehouses resulting in multiple shipments.
• Magento CE does not handle this natively at this point.
• Magento Commerce Order Management: https://magento.com/resources/magento-commerce-order-management
• Basically Omnichannel Distributed Order Management.