What is a channel?

A channel is a destination for product data — for Stone 3 that is typically Ecommerce. Completeness and many scoped values are calculated per channel.

Channels list showing Ecommerce linked to Master tree — Settings → Channels — Ecommerce uses the Master category tree.

Example

When you open a product with Channel = Ecommerce, you edit Ecommerce-scoped values and see Ecommerce completeness.

Usually configure

Locales enabled on the channel
Currencies (if prices are used)
Category tree

How-to: Manage channels.