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About 40 backend and storefront terms, explained briefly and without marketing fluff.
This glossary explains terms that the other chapters of this manual assume you already know – not a complete Magento dictionary, but a quick memory aid for exactly the terms that actually come up here.
A
- Anchor Category
- A category whose product list automatically includes every product from its subcategories too, instead of only the products directly assigned to it. Controlled via the "Is Anchor" checkbox in the category's display settings.
- Attribute
- A single data field describing a product, category or customer, e.g. color, weight or material.
- Attribute Set
- A named group of attributes made available together when creating a product – saves you from assigning every attribute one by one.
B
- Bundle Product
- A product type where customers configure their own combination from several selectable components, e.g. a PC configurator with a selectable processor, memory and case.
C
- Cache
- Already-computed data (e.g. a fully rendered page) that gets stored and reused on repeat requests instead of being recalculated every time.
- Cart Price Rule
- An automatic or coupon-code-based discount applied in the shopping cart.
- Catalog Price Rule
- A discount that acts directly on a product's displayed catalog price, without requiring a coupon code.
- CMS Block
- A reusable content snippet (e.g. footer text or an info box) that can be embedded in multiple places without maintaining the text more than once.
- CMS Page
- A complete, editorially maintained page with its own URL, e.g. "About Us" or "Terms and Conditions".
- Configurable Product
- A product type that represents multiple variants (e.g. size/color) as separate underlying simple products, presented to the customer as a single selectable product page.
- Cron Job
- A task that runs automatically in the background on a schedule, e.g. an indexer run, an exchange rate import, or asynchronous email sending.
- Custom Layout Update
- A layout XML file that assigns a special template to a single category or page, without changing the global page structure for every other page.
- Customer Group
- A grouping of customer accounts used e.g. for different prices, tax classes or discounts.
- Customer Segment
- A customer grouping calculated dynamically from rules (e.g. purchase history), used for targeted marketing.
D
- Dashboard
- The backend's landing page right after login, showing an overview of your most important metrics (see the "Understanding the Dashboard" chapter).
- Design Configuration
- The backend section for setting the active theme per store view, plus custom HTML head/footer elements.
E
- EAV (Entity-Attribute-Value)
- Magento's data model, in which entities such as products, categories and customers can flexibly carry any number of attributes instead of being bound to rigid, fixed table columns.
F
- FPT (Fixed Product Tax)
- A fixed tax amount per product, independent of any percentage rate – rarely used in Germany, relevant in other countries e.g. for bottle/battery deposits.
G
- Grouped Product
- A product type that bundles several independent, individually purchasable products onto one shared page, each keeping its own price.
H
- Hyvä
- A performance-focused Magento 2 frontend framework built on Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js that deliberately drops jQuery, Knockout.js and the classic UI Components – the technical foundation of this store.
I
- Indexer
- A background process that converts raw data (prices, stock, category assignments) into fast-to-query tables optimized for display (see the "Understanding Indexers" chapter).
L
- Layered Navigation
- The filterable sidebar on category pages that lets customers narrow the assortment by attributes like price, color or size.
- Layout Handle
- A named identifier Magento uses to decide which layout XML files get merged together into the final structure of a specific page.
- Low Stock Threshold (Notify for Quantity Below)
- The stock level below which a product gets flagged as "Low Stock" on the dashboard.
M
- MSI (Multi Source Inventory)
- Magento's native system for managing multiple physical warehouse locations (sources), each with its own stock.
N
- Nested Set
- The tree structure Magento uses internally to store and order the parent-child relationships between categories.
O
- Order State / Order Status
- The internal, hard-coded order state (State, e.g. "processing") and the customizable display label derived from it (Status, e.g. "In Progress").
P
- Page Layout
- The coarse page structure (e.g. with/without sidebar, full width), independent of a page's actual content.
R
- Reindex
- Manually or automatically recalculating an indexer after the underlying data has changed.
- Root Category
- The topmost category of a store, under which every category visible in that store is nested.
S
- Sales Rule
- Umbrella term for cart price rules and catalog price rules.
- Scope
- The level at which a setting or attribute value applies: Global (everywhere), Website (a group of store views), or Store View (a single language version).
- SKU (Stock Keeping Unit)
- A product's unique, internal item number.
- Source (MSI)
- A physical warehouse location with its own stock in the Multi Source Inventory system.
- Static Block
- Older, equivalent term for CMS Block.
- Store View
- Magento's most granular sales level, in practice usually equivalent to one language version of the same store.
- Swatch
- The visual representation of an attribute value (a color swatch or thumbnail image) on configurable products.
T
- Tax Class / Tax Rule
- See the "Tax Classes and Tax Rules" chapter for the full explanation.
- Tier Price
- A reduced price that automatically applies once a certain order quantity is reached.
U
- URL Rewrite
- The mapping of a human-readable URL (e.g.
/product-name.html) to an internal Magento entity such as a product or category.
V
- VAT ID
- A business customer's VAT identification number, which Magento can optionally validate automatically via VIES (see the "Price Display and VAT ID Validation" chapter).
- Virtual Product
- A product type with no physical shipment (e.g. a service), carrying no shipping weight.
W
- Webhook
- A technical mechanism through which external systems get automatically notified about an event (e.g. a new order) – in Magento usually added via an extension, not part of the core.
- Website (Magento Scope)
- The middle of three scope levels between Global and Store View, typically used to represent completely separate stores (with their own checkout cart) within the same installation.
- Widget
- A backend-configurable, reusable frontend building block (e.g. "Best-Selling Products") that gets embedded into pages without any coding.
- Wish List
- See the "Wishlist and Compare List" chapter.