- Website (Magento scope)
- The top-level container in the Magento hierarchy. Adobe's multi-site overview describes it as holding sites, delivery methods, payment methods, and more, with catalog prices managed at this level and inventory managed at website or global level.
- Store (Magento scope)
- A container inside a website whose primary function, per Adobe's setup page, is root category configuration. Two stores under one website can have different main menus and separate or shared catalogs.
- Store view
- The lowest level of the hierarchy. Adobe describes its primary function as translation and currency symbol configuration, and says store views are typically used to present a store in different layouts or languages.
- Base currency
- The currency an order is recorded in. Adobe's currency setup reference lists it at Website scope; a store view can display a converted price but does not hold its own base currency.
- Display currency
- The currency shown to the shopper on a store view, listed at Store View scope in Adobe's reference and converted from the base currency by rate.
- Catalog Price Scope
- A setting with two values, Global and Website, in Adobe's catalog configuration reference. At Website, each website can hold its own price for a product rather than a converted one.
- Account sharing
- Adobe's customer account scope setting: Global shares customer account information with every website in the installation; Per Website limits an account to the website where it was created.
- Stock and sales channel
- In Adobe's inventory management, a stock is assigned to sales channels, which are websites. Each sales channel can have only one stock, and one stock can serve several channels.
- MAGE_RUN_TYPE and MAGE_RUN_CODE
- The two variables Adobe documents for telling the application which website or store view to load: the type is website or store, and the code is that entity's unique code.
- routes.yaml and magento-vars.php
- The two files Adobe's cloud guide uses in place of a web server virtual host: domains are declared in .magento/routes.yaml, and the run type and code are passed through magento-vars.php in the project root.
- Separate instance
- A second Magento installation with its own code, hosting, and release cycle, as opposed to a second website inside one installation. Bemeir's article states that running several separate stores is more expensive and more error-prone.
- hreflang
- An HTML link attribute that tells search engines which URL serves which language and region. scandiweb's Elo Touch case study describes implementing it across three EMEA sites with the Mageworx SEO extension.
- x-default
- The hreflang value for the URL to serve when no language or region matches. In the Elo Touch case study, elotouch.com was marked as x-default.
- One Stop Shop (OSS)
- The EU VAT scheme, in force from 1 July 2021 per the European Commission, under which an online seller registers in one Member State to declare and pay VAT on B2C distance sales across the EU above the EUR 10,000 EU-wide threshold.
- General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR)
- Regulation (EU) 2023/988, which the European Commission's trade portal states applies from 13 December 2024 and covers products sold online.
- European Accessibility Act (EAA)
- Directive 2019/882, which per the Commission's AccessibleEU Centre applies from 28 June 2025 and includes mandatory accessibility requirements for eCommerce platforms.