Documentation

Learn how to use Geins in for your e-commerce project.

Getting started

Overview
This is Geins, a commerce backend that gives you the flexibility to create truly custom solutions, while also providing a stable foundation to build upon
Quickstart
Get up and running with Geins in minutes
Geins Concept
Create a custom, tailored experience for your customers and streamline your e-commerce operations

Core Features

Channels
Overview of sales channels, their capabilities, features, and key attributes
Products
Flexible product model with predefined fields and custom, localizable attributes
Promotions
A unified way to configure and execute promotions across channels and markets
Content
Understanding page area families, collections, containers, and widgets in Geins CMS
Customers
Management of the users of your sales channels or applications
Orders
Order management, covers the entire flow from checkout to delivery
Cart
Add products and quantities, update it at any time until the final payment step during checkout
Fulfillment
Tools for managing order fulfillment, including shipping, returns, and other aspects of the fulfillment process
Search
Configurable search functionality using Azure AI Search to index and query product data,
Product Feeds
Automated product feed generation for marketing channels and price comparison sites with flexible configuration options

Geins Studio

What's Geins Studio?
Geins Studio, our user interface for managing and working with all Geins features
Getting started
Required steps to get started with Geins Studio
Pricing
Pricing includes managing price lists, promotions, and special offers
Create price lists
A price list is a set of prices for a specific customer or group of customers
Volume pricing
Volume pricing allows you to set different price breaks based on the quantity of products purchased
Customers
Manage your customer data such as customer details,companies and groups
Companies
A company is a company that you sell to
Orders
Orders section includes features for managing quotations and orders
Quotations
Create a quotation to propose products and pricing to a company before converting it into an order
Base configuration
Configure the core settings for a channel, including its name, URL, languages, and markets
Transaction mails
Configure transactional emails sent from the channel, including sender details, content per mail type and language, and shared layout
Storefront settings
Configure the storefront connected to this channel, including mode, access, branding, theme, SEO, and public contact information

Merchant Center

Dashboard
The first view you'll see when you log in to Geins Merchant Center is the Dashboard
Search bar
Search for Products, Customers, Orders and Return cases
Working with the grid
Exploring the Dynamic Grid in Geins Merchant Center
Find an order in Merchant Center
Quickly find and manage an order in Merchant Center
Deliver a single order
You can deliver orders in a batch, but it also works well to deliver a single order at a time, as described below
Order refunds
Once a returned item has been received, you can refund your customers
Create new category
How to add a new category in Merchant Center
Add a new product
Adding and publishing a new product in Merchant Center
Find products in Merchant Center
Ways to effectively find the product you are looking for in Merchant Center
Create customer group
Create a customer group to give a percentage discount on the whole assortment to a selected set of customers
Find a customer in Merchant Center
Two fast ways to find the right customer in Merchant Center, using the main search or by filtering the customer list
Merge customer accounts
When a customer has multiple accounts, use the merge function to combine them into one
Create a cart campaign
A cart campaign is a campaign where offers are activated in the cart when a product that fulfils the campaign criteria is put in
Create a Product price campaign (price campaign)
Create a product price campaign to give included products a reduced price, shown directly in the store as a sale price
Create promo codes (discount codes)
Create promo codes (discount codes) that customers enter at checkout to get a discount
Add a content page (Stand-Alone collection)
Create stand-alone pages in Geins Content (CMS), from informational pages to campaign pages
Create and edit the start page
Create and enrich start pages with content under Content (CMS) in Merchant Center
Working with images and image upload
The CMS automatically scales and compresses uploaded images
Handling of currencies
How to work with currencies in Merchant Center
Markets
A market refers to a country of sale
Working with translations
A general guide to working with translations throughout Merchant Center