Configure

Create the products your shipping charges post to, choose the account-wide default, and control which products stay available to choose.

Divide the places you ship to into zones by state, country, or postal code, set the address your packages ship from, and manage the zone list.

Set which accounts a store's sales belong to, which payment options buyers see at checkout, and how the store's orders are invoiced.

Replace the order and shipment confirmation emails a store sends with your own wording, or turn one of them off for that store.

Control whether and when a merchandise item appears in your store, feature it, mark it as new, and preview it before you publish.

Create the categories of goods you tax at different rates, and understand what happens to your tax setup when you deactivate, rename, or delete one.

Set up the products your tax charges post to, choose the account-wide default, and understand why a tax product still in use can't be removed.

Define where you charge tax, by state, country, or postal code, and give each zone one or more rates with a percentage for every tax class.

Build your own analytics dashboard to replace the standard Orders & Inventory overview every staff member sees when they open the Console.

Let buyers choose among versions of an item, such as size or colour, generate every combination as a variant, and give a variant its own price, weight, or image.

Rhythm can email a customer automatically when their order is cancelled or a return is processed; here is who receives it, when it is skipped, and its store-override limits.

Build the template and confirmation email Rhythm uses to hand out coupon codes automatically when a product is bought, and preview the email before customers see it.

Turn on stock tracking for a merchandise item, choose whether stock is counted for the whole item or by SKU, set a reorder point, and allow or refuse back orders.

Turn on the sale of membership packages, certification courses and exams, and event registration packages inside a store, alongside its merchandise, and restrict each to chosen types or items.

Set up the categories your stores use to organize their catalogs, and define version or personalization questions once so many items can reuse them.

Set your account's default store, whether checkout must show your policy links, who besides your own staff can manage organizations' coupon codes, and other account-wide Orders & Inventory choices.

Define what a coupon's discount does, how much it gives, what it applies to, and the restrictions that limit it, then generate the codes customers use to redeem it.

Create the product a whole-order coupon posts its discount to, so the discount has somewhere to land in your financial records.

Define the kinds of rights your products can grant and other applications can check, rename or retire a type, and turn on the entitlement screens for your account.

Add a merchandise item to your catalog, keep its name, prices, images, description, shipping, and categories current, and find, copy, or delete an item you already have.

Send yourself a test copy of an order confirmation email, built from a real order, before customers start receiving it.

Collect engraving text, a gift-wrap choice, or another answer from buyers when they choose an item, and set rules that change the price or weight when they pick certain values.

Switch on the Online Store, Coupon Codes, and Order Management Portal features to add Orders & Inventory pages to your account's Portal.

Let Portal members apply a coupon to an order they already placed, and decide which contact roles of an organization may manage that organization's coupon codes on the Portal.

Create, edit, and preview the product-specific emails buyers receive after purchasing particular products, and see what happens to a product that still uses one you remove.

Set separate permissions for running, downloading, and scheduling each Orders & Inventory query type, so different roles can see different levels of your order and inventory data.

Create a store, choose which merchandise categories it shows, its default sort order and image, and set your account's default store; list, edit, and safely delete stores.

Create, rename, and retire the warehouses your stock is held in, turn on bins for a warehouse, and set the order shipments draw stock from.

Find every Orders & Inventory setup screen from one checklist page or from the setup side menu, and see which permission each one needs.

Send yourself a test copy of the shipment confirmation email, filled in with a real shipment's data, before customers see it.

Add free, flat-rate, weight or total-based, live UPS, and in-store pickup shipping methods to a shipping zone, price each one, and choose which shipping product its charges post to.