Digital StoreFront Entity Model

Digital StoreFront (DSF) is EFI’s (Booth 1902) award-winning, flexible web-to-print and eCommerce solution, offering an experience designed to acquire new customers, win new business and generate new revenue from existing customers.

Digital StoreFront’s new entity model introduces support for complex hierarchies within a single DSF instance. Each entity is essentially a building block for defining organizational structure.

A typical DSF site can include an unlimited number of branded sites, each managed/administered by the DSF parent. Under the entity model, the parent site can give the entity full or partial administrative rights, essentially defining a mini-DSF site. The entity can set up its own DSF experience, including multiple branded websites with workflows and products.

The entity model allows for an extension of this hierarchy, building a branching tree. Each sub-entity can be granted unique permissions (by the parent) to control its level. Each entity can have a unique construct and/or DSF constructs – including products/media/print services, storefronts, pricing, tax rules – that can be made available downstream to sub-entity levels.