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title: E-commerce features
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
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> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

## The features

> **Info:** **[Departments](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/departments.md)**
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> Manage your on-line store departments to organize the products and services that you offer to your customers.

> **Info:** **[Products](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/products.md)**
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> Manage the products and services that you offer in your on-line store.

> **Info:** **[Product options](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/products/working-with-product-options.md)**
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> Manage options that you added to the offered products and services. For example, you can offer the same product in multiple colors, configurations, etc.

> **Info:** **[Product variants](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/products/working-with-product-variants.md)**
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> Manage variants of your main products. For example, you can offer T-shirts in different sizes and colors. Each combination of size and color, i.e. product variant, behaves in the system as a separate product.

> **Info:** **[Manufacturers](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/manufacturers.md)**
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> Manage manufacturers who make the products and provide the services that you offer in your on-line store.

> **Info:** **[Suppliers](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/suppliers.md)**
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> Manage suppliers who supply the products and deliver the services that you offer in your on-line store.

> **Info:** **[Product image galleries](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/products.md#attachments-tab)**
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> Create galleries of the offered products. For example, you can present your customers with featured images of given products.

> **Info:** **[Product categories](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/products.md#categories-tab)**
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> Sort the products and services that you offer to your customers based on topic-related groups.

> **Info:** **[Multilingual products](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/multilingual-store.md)**
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> Present the products and services that you offer to your customers in multiple language versions.

> **Info:** **[Product workflow](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/products.md#workflow)**
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> Set up a reviewing and approval process to ensure quality of your website's content and design.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Multiple currencies and exchange rates](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/currencies.md)
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> Allow your customers to make orders in currencies different from the on-line store main currency.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Configurable tax calculation based on country and state](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/tax-classes.md)
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> Calculate taxes based on location.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Discounts](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/discounts.md)
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> Flexibly combine and grant your on-line store customers the following types of discounts:
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> - [Catalog discounts](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/discounts/working-with-catalog-discounts.md) - grant your eligible customers discounts on selected products.
> - [Order discounts](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/discounts/working-with-order-discounts.md) - grant your eligible customers discounts on their whole shopping.
> - [Free shipping offers](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/discounts/working-with-free-shipping-offers.md) - grant your eligible customers the benefit of free shipping.
> - [Volume discounts](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/discounts/working-with-volume-discounts.md) - offer your customers better prices if they purchase specified amounts of given products.
> - [Bundles](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/products/managing-product-representations/managing-bundles.md) - offer and sell your customers multiple products of various kinds as single products for special prices.
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> Besides, you can motivate your customers to purchase more products by providing them with [discount coupons](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/discounts/working-with-discount-coupons.md). The customers can exchange these virtual vouchers for various types of discounts (order discounts, free shipping offers, discounts on selected products).

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Customers](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/customers.md)
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> Manage your on-line store customers.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Orders](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/orders.md)
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> Manage orders that your customers placed while purchasing in your on-line store.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Site-specific and global data](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/multisite-store.md)
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> Learn how you can use site-specific objects available only on the respective sites and global objects shared across all your sites.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Reports and statistics](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/store-reports.md)
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> View reports and statistics related to your on-line store.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Custom providers](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/customizing-and-developing-your-store/e-commerce-customization-model.md)
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> Add your custom providers for alternative shipping and tax calculations.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Checkout process](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/checkout-process.md)
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> Add checkout process steps and further customize the checkout process to best suit your and your customers' needs.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Payment gateways](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/payment-methods/payment-gateways.md)
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> Use payment gateways such as PayPal or Authorize.NET, and integrate your own payment gateways.

## E-commerce documentation sections

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Getting started with the E-commerce Solution](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/getting-started-with-the-e-commerce-solution.md)
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> Learn the basics of the Kentico E-commerce Solution.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Configuring and managing your store](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store.md)
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> Learn how you can set up your on-line store and perform all necessary configuration and management tasks to start and develop your e-business.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Customizing and developing your store](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/customizing-and-developing-your-store.md)
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> Learn how you can adapt your on-line store to best suit your e-business needs.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Store reports](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/store-reports.md)
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> View interactive reports informing you about the progress of your e-business.

> **Info:** 
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> #### [Store security](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/store-security.md)
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> Learn how you can set up and manage the security features of your on-line store.