Tutorials

Refining Search Results

This functionality requires Elasticsearch to be enabled for search results. If you are not sure if this is activated on your web store, please reach out to commercebuild Customer Success. You can control which data points in your products are searchable via the Boosting setting in the Elasticsearch Search Configuration. To set this up, go […]

How To Assign Products to a Category

For products to appear on the front end, it is imperative that we assign them to a category. Please follow the below guide on how to assign products to one or many categories. Assign product(s) to a category Navigate to Catalog > Categories. Locate and select the category to which product(s) are to be assigned. […]

How to Change the Order of Shipping Options

In step four of the checkout process, you may want to order the carriers/shipping options in a specific way. To configure this, go to System > Shipping Setup > Carriers. Once on the Carriers page, observe that each carrier has a value for the Sort Order column. The Sort Order will determine the order in […]

How to Enable Product Reviews

Product reviews allow your customers to leave feedback about your products. They can be enabled in the Product Tabs Module on the Product Page. They will also need to be enabled for B2B users and/or B2C users through the System → Features page. B2B User Settings: /admin/msite/features B2C User Settings: /admin/msite/features/public Once enabled, the Product […]

How to View 404s in Google Search Console

You may want to view all pages on your site that Google can crawl which also 404. To achieve this, make sure you have added your website to Google Search Console. Once it’s added, you can then monitor for 404 pages. In Google Search Console: Click “Coverage” Click “Excluded” Add a filter for “Type” Set […]

Use Sub Categories Module to customize navigation menu

The main navigation menu which appears on the header bar of every page looks generally like the one shown below with a parent category showing subcategories listed in a pull-down menu. With Sub Categories Module, you can customize the main navigation menu by changing the layout and appearance of its subcategories. You can also include […]

How to edit language specific labels

If your webstore supports multi-languages, then you can add or edit labels specific to different languages. For example, For that, go to your admin dashboard and navigate to either System > Labels or System > Features, depending on from where the label is derived from. Select a language from the language switcher on the header […]

How to Enable Default Category Display Order

The setting to modify the display order of products on Category Listing pages can be found in your Admin Dashboard under System > Features as shown in the below screenshot. Toggle ON the button Enable Default Category Display Order and choose from the available options listed under Default Category Display Order. Please make sure to enable […]

How to Edit a Product Secondary Description

The Secondary Description in your product details pages allow you to share information about products on their individual product pages. This information can be updated on a product-by-product basis or via an Excel spreadsheet. Enable Secondary Descriptions You may need to enable secondary descriptions to appear. To do this, go to System > Features and […]

How to Put a Site in Maintenance Mode

Putting a site into Maintenance Mode is very easy, but there are a couple of things you should know first. If you do not have a maintenance page set up, a very utilitarian page will be shown when you put the site into Maintenance Mode: This site is offline due to maintenance. We will be […]