Enable Shop the Store

Enable Shop the Store for up to ten B2C stores. With this feature, shoppers can search in-store inventory online. Either import store inventory lists or integrate with Omnichannel. Shoppers can then browse store-specific inventory and conveniently pick-up purchases from a preferred location.

Note For performance reasons, we recommend that you turn on the Shop the Store Inventory feature switch and Shop the Store only when in use.

Make sure you are a Business Manager user with permissions to manage search indexes, stores, and inventory lists.
Create stores and import store objects into Business Manager. See Create Stores in B2C Commerce.
Import store inventory lists or integrate with Omnichannel. See Import an Inventory List and Inventory Management Using Omnichannel Inventory.
Assign store inventory lists to stores. See Associate a Store with an Inventory List.
Set up a store selector. For PWA kit, see Boost In-Store Sales with Store Locator.

Enable the Shop the Store Inventory switch. Request your Admin to perform these steps:
1. In Business Manager, click App Launcher , and then select Administration | Global Preferences | Feature Switches.
2. Enable Shop the Store Inventory.
3. Save your changes.
In Business Manager, click App Launcher , and then select Merchant Tools | Site | Search | Search Preferences.
Enable Shop the Store.
Click App Launcher , and then navigate to Merchant Tools | Search | Search Indexes, and review the inventory index.

Build the feature in development models: Site Genesis, Salesforce Reference Architecture (SFRA), PWA kit, or headless using the related APIs. When a shopper searches for a product online, Shop the Store uses one of these development models to retrieve products available at a store.

Set up the feature in your composable storefront app using PWA Kit 3.11 and later. See Expand Shopping Options with In-Store Pickup.
To build the feature using Shopper Search API, retrieve up to ten store inventory list IDs using the ilids URL parameter.
If you’re using Shopper Commerce API (SCAPI), see Product search to retrieve up to ten store inventory list IDs using the ilids URL parameter.
If you’re using ScriptAPI, see ProductSearchModel. setStoreInventoryFilter filters the search result by one or more inventory list IDs and retrieves a mapping between a store name and an inventory list.

To look up store inventory information, add up to ten store inventory list IDs to the inventory field in Search Index Query Testing. See Run Queries on the Product Index.

Enable Shop the Store

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