Stores

A Store represents a single brand or merchant in Storefront. Every store has:

• Its own product catalog (products and categories)
• One or more physical locations used as pickup addresses for Fleet-Ops delivery orders
• Operating hours per location
• Currency and timezone settings
• An auto-generated API key (store_*) for public access
• Its own payment gateways and notification channels

If you are building a D2C app for a single restaurant, shop, or service provider — one store is everything you need.

For multi-vendor marketplaces (e.g., a food delivery platform with many independent merchants), you'll group stores into a Network.

Architecture Examples

Single-brand, single location

Example: a neighborhood café.

• Create 1 Store with 1 Location
• No network needed

Single-brand, multiple locations (franchise)

Example: a coffee chain with 5 city locations.

• Create 1 Store with 5 Locations
• Each location has its own address and operating hours
• The cart records which location an item came from

Mobile or pop-up brand

Example: a single food truck operator.

• Create 1 Store linked to a Food Truck record
• The food truck is tied to a Fleet-Ops vehicle for live GPS positioning
• See Food Trucks

Multi-vendor marketplace

Example: a food delivery app with 50 restaurants.

• See Networks — group multiple stores together

Key Properties

Next Steps

• Creating a Store — create and configure a store, with the full settings reference
• Store Locations — add physical addresses for pickup
• Operating Hours — set when each location accepts orders
• Food Trucks — configure mobile stores with GPS-linked positioning
• Networks — when to graduate to a multi-vendor marketplace