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Admin panel

The admin panel

Where you change everything without touching code.

Your store's admin panel lives at /admin on your own site — for example https://store.example.com/admin.

Everything on these pages is edited there. No code, no redeploy: save a change and it is live on the next page load.

Logging in

Use the email and password you set as SEED_ADMIN_EMAIL and SEED_ADMIN_PASSWORD when you seeded the database.

Change the password the first time you log in if you used the example values. admin@example.com / changeme123 are published in the theme's example file, so anyone who has seen the theme knows them.

There is no password reset email. The theme ships without an email service, so the "forgot password" link cannot deliver anything — the message is written to the server log instead. Keep your password somewhere safe. Recovery instructions are in Troubleshooting.

What is where

The sidebar has four groups.

GroupContainsPage
ConfigurationSite Settings, Currency Settings, Languages, Appearancebelow
ContentFooter, Aboutbelow
Store ContentRank Groupsbelow
AdminUsers, Mediabelow

Globals versus collections

Two kinds of thing in the sidebar, and it helps to know which is which:

  • A global is a single settings page. There is exactly one Site Settings, one Footer, one Appearance. You edit it; there is nothing to create or delete.
  • A collection is a list. Users, Media and Rank Groups are collections — you add, edit and remove entries.

Editing in more than one language

Any field marked as translatable stores a separate value per language. At the top of the editor there is a locale selector.

Pick the language

Change the locale selector at the top of the page from en to, say, de.

Type the translation

The field now holds the German text. The English value is untouched.

Save

Each language is saved independently.

Fields that are not translatable — URLs, colour codes, package IDs, your server IP — are shared across every language, which is what you want.

Leave a translation empty and visitors in that language see the English value instead. You do not have to translate everything to enable a language.

What is not in the admin panel

ThingWhere it actually lives
Products, prices, categories, descriptionsTebex
Sales and discountsTebex
Payment settingsTebex
Interface text like "Add to cart"Translation files — Translations
Home page photos and background artThe theme's files — Assets
Security headers, allowed image hostsnext.config.tsSecurity and headers

A note about the API

The admin panel's own API is at /payload-api (not /api, which is reserved for the store's Tebex proxy). You will not normally touch it, but it is where GraphQL and REST live if you ever want them.

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