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The Demo Store gives you a fully populated Site Store Pro installation to explore — with real product types, variants, images, inventory records, cross-selling relationships, and event data — without you having to create anything manually. When you’re ready to go live, a single button purges every trace of demo content instantly.

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What the Demo Store Includes

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Brands

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Categories

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Products (27)

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Additional Demo Data

Beyond products, brands, and categories, the seeder also populates:

Inventory Records

Stock levels are created for every product variant, so inventory tracking works out of the box during your demo exploration.

Event Records

Each event-type variant (seminars, workshops) includes a start time, end time, location, and a colour label for visual scheduling.

Product Attributes

Multi-variant products (apparel, events) include properly configured product attributes (e.g. colour, size) to demonstrate the variant selection UI.

CDN Product Images

All products have professional images served directly from the Site Store Pro demo CDN. No local image files are required.

Cross-Selling Relationships

Cross-selling relationships are pre-configured across the product catalogue, demonstrating the “You may also like” feature on product pages.

Home Page Slideshow

SLideshow with 2 demo slides included slideshow with sample slides.

Sample Testimonials

4 Fake Testimonials including translations.

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Default Login Credentials

The base database seed (run during installation) creates a single admin account:
These are shared demo credentials published in this documentation. Change all default passwords before making your store publicly accessible. Go to Admin → Users, edit each account, and set a strong, unique password.

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How to Seed the Demo Store

1

Ensure Migrations Are Up to Date

If you haven’t already run your database migrations, do so now. If you ran migrate:fresh --seed during installation, you can skip this step.
2

Run the Demo Store Seeder

The seeder will insert all 27 products, 5 brands, 10 categories, inventory records, event records, product attributes, CDN image references, and cross-selling relationships. It will also activate cms page id #13 which is a redirect after order example page that is seeded from the base install but not active unless the demo data is present.
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Log in and Explore

Navigate to your Site Store Pro installation and log in with the admin credentials:
The DemoStoreSeeder is fully idempotent — it is safe to run multiple times. On each run, it checks the seo_slug of each product before inserting; any product that already exists is silently skipped. You will never end up with duplicate demo products.
The seeder does not copy any image files to your server. All product images are referenced as CDN URLs pointing to https://d23w3zagfzgqcb.cloudfront.net. Your store needs an internet connection for images to display, but no local storage space is consumed.

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How to Purge Demo Content

When you are ready to go live, purge all demo data through the admin panel. No command line access is required.
1

Log in to the Admin Panel

Log in at /admin using your administrator account.
2

Navigate to Settings

In the admin sidebar, click Settings.
3

Locate the Demo Store Banner

If demo content has been seeded, an amber banner reading “Demo Store Content is Active” appears at the top of the Settings page.
If you have never run DemoStoreSeeder, this banner is completely invisible. The Purge button does not appear on stores with no demo content.
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Click 'Purge Demo Content'

Inside the amber banner, click the red Purge Demo Content button.
5

Confirm the Deletion

A confirmation modal will appear listing everything that will be permanently deleted:
  • All 27 demo products and their variants
  • All demo product images
  • All demo inventory records
  • All demo event records
  • All demo product attributes
  • All 5 demo brands
  • All 10 demo categories
  • All demo cross-selling relationships
  • sample slide show data
  • sample testimonials
  • ++++ CMS page id 13 is disabled/hidden (not deleted) when the demo data is purged so it can be reactivated later to demonstrate using a landing page as an alternate redirect for a order (webinar sample product).
Click Yes, Delete All Demo Content to proceed.
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Purge Complete

The purge runs immediately. The amber “Demo Store Content is Active” banner disappears, confirming that all demo data has been removed. Your store is now clean and ready for real products.
The purge is permanent and irreversible from the admin UI. Once you click “Yes, Delete All Demo Content”, all demo products, categories, brands, and related records are hard-deleted from the database. You cannot undo this action — only re-seeding can restore demo content.Any products, brands, categories, or variants you created yourself are completely safe — the purge only removes content that was loaded by the Demo Store seeder.

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Re-Seeding After a Purge

If you purge the demo content and later want to restore it (for example, to demo the platform to a new team member), simply re-run the seeder:
Because the seeder is idempotent and checks seo_slug for existing records before inserting, this is safe to run at any time on a live store — only the missing demo products will be re-inserted, and your real store data is never touched.