Channels¶

In the modern world of e-commerce your website is no longer the only point of sale for your goods. Sylius supports multiple-channels and in this guide you will understand them from a technical point of view.

Channel model represents a single sales channel, which can be one of the following things:

• Webstore
• Mobile application
• Cashier in your physical store

Or pretty much any other channel type you can imagine.

The default model has the following basic properties:

code

An unique code identifying this channel

name

The human readable name of the channel

description

Short description

color:

Color representation

url:

The url pattern used to identify the channel

enabled:

Is the channel currently enabled?

createdAt

Date of creation

updateAt

Timestamp of the most recent update

Channel configuration also allows you to configure several important aspects:

locales

You can select one or more locales available in this particular store

currencies

Every channel operates only on selected currencies

paymentMethods

You can define which payment methods are available in this channel

shippingMethods

Channel must have shipping methods configured