When installing the EPiServer Commerce package with a sample site, a number of pages will be created and displayed in a specific structure in the page tree. Some of them will show editorial content. Some pages are used as containers for other pages These will not display any content of their own and will be hidden in navigation menus.
The home page is built using the Home page type. The Home page contains numerous settings affecting the entire website, for instance top menus, search and login. This is also where you define pages to be used for shopping carts, payments and checkout.
The main menu navigation is built up by the page structure under [Menu]. The products listing is retrieved from the [Resources] section where the Product Listing page type which is used for displaying the products, fetching product information from the product catalog.
The [Functional Pages] section of the site structure holds the display templates for a number of general functions such as Checkout, Login and Create Account. These have their own specific page types linking to functions in the Commerce Manager module.
The [My Profile] section contains display templates for personal settings for online shoppers. Page types used here are for instance My Orders, My Page and Wishlist.
Editorial content pages are most often based on the page type Standard Page. These are pages where editors can create and edit content the usual way in EPiServer CMS. Examples of editorial content are the pages under the [Content Pages] and [Footer Container].
The [Company Profile] section of the site structure holds display templates related to the B2B part of the sample site. This includes page types such as Company Order Detail, Create Member and Company Page.
Each of the page types mentioned here are described in more detail in the following sections of this documentation.
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