The difference between platform and storefront | CORE_002

0:00 In Infigo, you'll hear two terms constantly, Platform and Storefront. If you understand this difference early, everything else becomes simpler and you'll avoid the classic mistake of changing the right setting in the wrong place.
0:15 Think of the platform as the umbrella system, the environment that can contain one or more storefronts. A storefront is the actual customer-facing site where users browse products add to basket and So the platform is the container.
0:30 With container and shared controls, the storefront is one specific shop experience. This matters because Infigo Admin is one place, but your changes can apply at different scopes.
0:43 Some settings are storefront-specific, meaning they affect only the storefront you're currently working on. Other settings are platform level, meaning they affect the wider environment, sometimes across multiple storefronts.
0:55 Use storefront level when you're shaping the experience of a specific shop. Typical storefront level work includes building your catalogue, categories, products, and what appears on the site, designing the storefront's look and feel, branding, content, and homepage elements, and configuring the customer
1:14 journey, so how browsing and checkout behaves on that particular storefront. If you're thinking, this affects what my customer sees on this site, you're usually going to need to be in storefront mode.
1:26 Use platform level when you're working on the environment itself, the stuff that sits above any single storefront.
1:34 Typical platform level work includes managing settings that need to be consistent across the environment, connecting shared services or integrations that shouldn't be reconfigured per storefront, admin level controls that apply beyond one specific customer-facing site, and managing or switching between
1:52 modes. multiple storefronts if you have them. If you're thinking this should apply beyond one storefront, that's your cue to check you're operating at platform scope.
2:03 With that in mind, here's the simplest rule of thumb. if the change is about what the customers see and do in a specific shop, that is storefront.
2:12 If the change is about how the environment operates overall, that is platform. The most common mistake isn't picking the wrong setting, it's being in the wrong storefront when you change it.
2:26 do a quick mental check. Am I in the right storefront and am I intending a storefront level change or a platform level change?
2:33 Once you've logged in to your platform, the easiest way to identify the storefront or the platform level that you're on is to look at the top right of your screen.
2:43 If you can see the switch storefront icon, that's a immediate indicator that you're operating at your platform level because you can access multiple storefronts.
2:53 If you can't see this, you're likely operating at storefront level. Next to that, you'll see some text showing the current storefront that we have active.
3:01 Very useful in making sure you're working in the correct environment. the next tutorial, we'll make admin navigation fast and painless.
3:09 We'll look at how to move around confidently, find settings quickly, and avoid getting lost whilst you start your storefront build.