Views

Understanding views

Each store ships with a number of default views necessary for ensuring your store & the commerce process that drives your store remains fully functional at all times; aspects like your home page, 404s, the basket and tracking & ordering views.

Views differ from pages as you cannot add or delete views; if you need to add your own content then rather use pages to accomplish this.

You can edit the content within views to an extent, but you cannot delete views as they are critical to functionality of your store, and there is certain content on views that you cannot change.

Available views

The most important view to get to grips with is the Home view: this is the view that is accessible at the 'root' of your store, or another way to put it it's usually the 1st page your shoppers will see when visiting your store.

Next up is the Not found view: dished up when your visitors stumble upon an url that is not available anymore, or at all. This view is also called a 404, and certain Internet services spice it up with things like Failwhales to lighten things up when technology fails.

The Products view renders all the active products in your store in one go; ordered accordingly.

The Ranges view renders all the active ranges in your store in one go; ordered accordingly.

The Basket view enables you to manage what is presented during the 1st step of the checkout process.

The Order view enables you to manage what is presented during the 2nd step of the checkout process.

Finally the Track view enables you to manage what is presented to a shopper after a sale has been made, and before & after shipping takes place.

SEO & everything else

Should you want to you can also manage 'everything else' on certain views (Home, Products & Ranges): you can assign certain views a custom slug, choose a page title should you want it to differ from the default naming convention as well as add meta description & keywords to optimise these views for Google & co.