SCOPE | DESCRIPTION |
GLOBAL | |
Admin | The same Admin controls all websites, stores, and store views in Magento installation. |
Default Config | Unless being overwritten at a lower level, otherwise, the global default configuration settings are used through the store hierarchy. |
Catalog | The database of products, available throughout the installation |
Product Prices | Store administrator can configure product prices to be applied at either a global level or website. |
Product Configurations | In Configurable Products, some attributes are used as options must have a global scope. |
Customers | In Magento default installation, each website can have a separate set of customers account, or share the same with other websites. Store Administrators can configure customer accounts to apply at a global level or website |
WEBSITE | |
Domain | Store administrators can set up different websites as subdomains of the primary domain, or dedicated domains with other IP addresses. |
Customers | In Magento default installation, each website can have a separate set of customers account, or share the same with other websites. Store Administrators can configure customer accounts to apply at a global level or website |
Currency | Store owners can assign to each website a different base currency. All transactions are processed using the base currency, |
Products | At the website level, store owners can assign individual products to the hierarchy. All the products in the catalog and in the website where they are available are listed with the products grid. |
Product Prices | Store owners can configure product prices to apply at either a global level or website |
Payment Methods | Store owners can configure payment methods at the website level, and configure title and instructions for each store view. |
Checkout | Although admin can configure some display options for each store view, the checkout process is still taking place at the website level. The checkout configuration is the same in all stores that associated with a website. |
STORE | |
Root Category | Root category is assigned at the store level of each catalog. |
STORE VIEW | |
Subcategories | Store admin can assign the subcategories to the store view level |
Locale | Store admin can assign each store view to a different locale. For each store view, most of Admin interface, the display currency, and measurement units are unique to the locale |
Languages | For each store view, every content including product descriptions can be translated into other languages. |
Display Currency | Although the base currency is being used in all transactions, each store view can use a different currency. |