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title: Enabling global E-commerce objects
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k8/configuring-kentico/managing-sites/configuring-settings-for-sites/settings-e-commerce/settings-global-objects.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k8/configuring-kentico/managing-sites/configuring-settings-for-sites.md
---

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This topic explains how [authorized](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/multisite-store/multisite-store-security.md) users can allow the use of global objects for the E-commerce Solution. Such [users](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-users.md) can perform the task using three different applications:

- **Settings**
- [Multistore configuration](#multistore-configuration)
- [Store configuration](#store-configuration)

## Settings

To allow the use of global objects for the E-commerce Solution:

1. Open the **Settings** application.
2. Specify the site using the **Site** drop-down list. You have the following options:

   - Select _(global)_ to perform a global configuration.
   - Select one of the available sites to perform a site-specific configuration.
3. Select **E-commerce -> Global objects** in the settings tree.
4. Select objects that you want to use as global objects.
5. Click **Save**.

For further information on how you can configure the system's settings, see [Configuring settings for sites](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/configuring-kentico/managing-sites/configuring-settings-for-sites.md).

![Enabling global E-commerce objects in the Settings application](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/enabling-global-e-commerce-objects/enabling_global_ec_objects_in_settings.png "Enabling global E-commerce objects in the Settings application")

## Multistore configuration

To allow the use of global objects for the E-commerce Solution globally, i.e. for all your sites:

1. Open the **Multistore configuration** application.
2. Switch to **Store settings ->** **Global objects**.
3. Select objects that you want to use as global objects.

   > **Info:** Selecting objects in the **Allow global objects for** category results in allowing global objects that you can use together with site-specific objects.
   >
   > Selecting objects in the **Use global settings for** category results in allowing global objects that you can use only separately from their site-specific counterparts.
4. Click **Save**.

> **Note:** Because you can perform only a global configuration of the Kentico E-commerce Solution in this application, i.e. you cannot select a specific site, the system behaves as if you selected _(global)_ in the **Site** drop-down list in the Settings application.

## Store configuration

To allow the use of global objects for the E-commerce Solution on the current site:

1. Open the **Store configuration** application.
2. Switch to \*\*Store settings ->\*\***Global objects**.
3. Select objects that you want to use as global objects.

   > **Info:** Selecting objects in the **Allow global objects for** category results in allowing global objects that you can use together with site-specific objects.
   >
   > Selecting objects in the **Use global settings for** category results in allowing global objects that you can use only separately from their site-specific counterparts.
4. Click **Save**.

> **Tip:** Optionally, you can configure the system to inherit settings for selected E-commerce Solution objects from your global settings.
>
> You can do this by selecting **Inherit from global settings** for these objects.

For further details, see [Configuring settings for sites](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/configuring-kentico/managing-sites/configuring-settings-for-sites.md).

## Managing global objects

Global objects can only use data from other global objects. Therefore, if you're editing a global object, the system offers in its editing interface only global data. The global objects settings for the current site have no effect.

### Example

You can place global [products](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/products.md) in global [departments](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/departments.md) only. Besides, global products can have only global [manufacturers](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/manufacturers.md), [suppliers](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/suppliers.md), etc. assigned. Also the price of global products is set in a global store [currency](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/e-commerce-features/configuring-and-managing-your-store/currencies.md).