This innovative tool enables you to create tailor-made field layouts for your applications
CommerceLab Shop & YOOtheme Page Builder
CommerceLab Shop is 98% integrated with YOOtheme Pro's Page builder. Using dynamic content sources making our shop system headless by design.
If your reading this we assume you've followed the inital steps of adding product details to at least one product. If have not done this inital steps please learn how at the link below.
Adding product details in CommerceLab Shop
Navigating to your product in Page Builder
There a couple ways to get to your product in Page builder. Even if you're a seasons YOOtheme user there is a new way to navigate to page builder.
In a shop's product details
Head to your CommercerLab Shop Component dashboard and click "Products" in the sidebar and then enter into the product details. Click the builder button at the top to take you directly to your product in Page builder
From the CommerceLab Shop dashboard
When in the CommerceLab Shop Dashboard click the home button. then dropdown the page builder links. Click the >> "Home" link
This link will drop you on you home page in builder.
Using this method will require a shop menu item for you product first to get to your product page. If you haven't done this use the method above to get to your product page.
From your Home Dashboard in Joomla
If you've already created a Joomla menu item for your shop category or your first product. You can use the YOOtheme link on your Joomla 4 dashboard
Using this method will require a shop menu item for you product first to get to your product page. If you haven't done this use the first method to get to your product page.
If you've navigated using the first method and are creating your first empty product page you should land at a page that looks like this.
Please continue to the next step to create your grid layout on the page.
Your Comprehensive Management Solution Streamlining Operations for Efficiency
The Business Manager Systems component of Omni is designed to empower businesses with the tools needed to manage their operations seamlessly. This sophisticated system provides a comprehensive suite of functionalities aimed at enhancing efficiency, improving decision-making, and fostering growth
Centralized Operations Management:
At its core, the Business Manager Systems acts as a centralized hub for all business operations. It consolidates various tasks and processes into one accessible platform, simplifying management and oversight. From inventory and sales to customer relations and financial reporting, everything is streamlined under one roof.
Seamless Integration with Application Instances
The Business Manager flawlessly integrates with all application instances within Omni, including the Shop Application, Shop Digital, and Custom Content System. This seamless integration allows for the efficient management of data across your various digital ventures, ensuring that every piece of information is readily accessi
Applications within Omni Hub are essentially modular components designed to extend the functionality of your Joomla site. They serve as the building blocks for tailoring your website's capabilities to suit your specific business needs. Each application is a self-contained unit with its own set of features, database, and user interface, allowing for targeted functionalities such as e-commerce, content management, or customer relationship management.
How Applications Work
Applications are installed into the Omni Hub framework using Joomla, each operating within its own dedicated space, yet seamlessly integrated into the overall business manager intergated with Omni Hub. Here's a closer look at how applications function:
Installation and Database Management:
Upon installation, each application prompts the choice of creating a new database or linking to a remote database. This approach ensures that the main Joomla database remains optimized and uncluttered, dedicating resources to the core functionality of the site while the application handles its specific tasks in a separate database.
Functional Independence:
Applications are designed to be functionally independent, meaning they serve specific business or operational needs. This can range from e-commerce solutions, content management systems, to custom user management frameworks. Each application has its own set of categories, tags, users, fields, and content, which can be managed independently or in conjunction with other applications.
Integration with Omni Hub and Joomla:
While applications operate independently, they are fully integrated into the Omni Hub system and by extension, the Joomla site. This integration allows for data and operations to be managed from a single interface - the Business Manager - which acts as the command center for navigating between different applications and managing the overall business landscape.
Customization and Scalability:
Applications within Omni Hub are designed for high levels of customization and scalability. They support multiple instances, allowing businesses to replicate applications to meet expanding needs or operational diversity. Customization extends to the front-end, with YOOtheme Pro integration ensuring that applications not only function well but also blend seamlessly into the website's design and user experience.
Key features
Applications integrated into the Omni Hub platform are engineered for adaptability, customization, and seamless operation with your Joomla website, offering a robust set of features designed to optimize business processes
Dedicated Database Architecture
Each application operates with its own dedicated database, which can be either newly created or linked to a remote database upon installation. This approach ensures that the primary Joomla database remains lightweight and optimized, while also enhancing the security and performance of each application.
Application Instances
Applications can be replicated, allowing for multiple instances of the same application. This feature is particularly useful for businesses that operate in various domains or need to manage different types of content separately but within the same framework.
Customizable Access Control
With Omni Hub's integration into Joomla's permission system, you can fine-tune access controls for each application. This means you can allow or restrict users from accessing certain parts of an application, or the entire application, based on their role within your organization
Seamless Integration with YOOtheme Pro
Applications are fully compatible with YOOtheme Pro, ensuring that they blend in perfectly with the rest of your website's design. This integration allows for the creation of custom layouts at the category level, enabling a unique and engaging user experience.
Dynamic Content Management
The ability to add fields at the category level within each application instance enables the creation of varied content layouts. This flexibility ensures that when a particular category is selected for content, the layout automatically adapts to display the content as intended.
Content and Settings Mirroring
Categories, settings, and fields can be mirrored across application instances. This powerful feature ensures consistency across your digital presence, enabling you to maintain uniform fields and settings across different sections or types of content. Additionally, it provides the flexibility to lock or unlock fields and settings as needed for specific instances.
The Shop application was always envisioned as a stepping stone towards our broader goal for the Omni CCK system. Given the complexities and numerous breakpoints encountered during the migration to our new platform, it became impractical to continue offering the original product.
Unlock flexibility with Application Instances: create multiple versions of your apps for different needs or customers, simplifying customization and growth.
Content Creation Made Easy
Streamline your app customization with our intuitive Field Layout Generator. Tailor field layouts within categories for each application instance, creating custom configurations for efficient data entry, perfectly designed for your content and products. Achieve a seamless and personalized user experience with unmatched flexibility and precision.
eCommerce Evolved
Unlock flexibility with Application Instances: create multiple versions of your apps for different needs or customers, simplifying customization and growth.
Application Instances
Unlock flexibility with Application Instances: create multiple versions of your apps for different needs or customers, simplifying customization and growth.
Omni Applications
Omni applications provide a range of functionalities to improve Joomla websites, structured into categories for easy management. They offer layout builders and the ability to create instances of applications, as well as multiple instances of the same application.
Joomla Manager
Content Kit
Shop
Shop Digital
Bundler
Memberships
Included with all Applications
Grid & Filter
Was a paid add-on now part of our core
Gallery View
Was a paid add-on now part of our core
UserLink Pro
Formally known as User Pro included with ecommerce Applications
Omni Hub serves as the central management system within the Omni ecosystem, specifically designed to streamline the workflows for web agencies and their clients when working with Omni Applications.
Application Manager
Manage applications and create instances of your applications
UserLink
Manage users who have accounts in any application
Permissions Manager
Manage who has access to what applications or Omni Hub and
Add-ons Manager
Easy to navigate UI the move bewtween your applications.