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title: Administration overview
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Optimizely Commerce Connect lets you configure and apply specific settings in the administration user interface. These settings affect areas such as markets, payments, and shipping used for catalogs and order management.

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**Note**

This article applies to Commerce Connect version 14. Some functionality previously configured from the user interface is now configured through code. See also [previous versions of this user guide](https://webhelp.optimizely.com/latest/en/getting-started/archived-documentation.htm) and [Optimizely Commerce Connect developer guide](docId:8WSVD4Vx_1NQPI9WRdCOB).
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## The Administration view

You can do the following from **Administration** in Commerce Connect:

- **Markets** – [Define markets ](docId:7f2h3T_5adtf4eDwYPVsv)for things such as catalogs and campaigns.
- **Warehouses** – [Add and define warehouses](docId\:aZ_OKsDcDsKdcsqujiO5B) for displaying stock availability information.
- **Catalog Indexing** – [Update the website search index](docId\:Uuc6qN64SYZjJJxG9onnx) to reflect product catalog changes.
- **Tax Configurations** – [Configure taxes](docId\:j8PX07ZC8RzxEohA1dESu) for catalog management and the ordering process.
- **Shipping** – Define [shipping](docId\:b-xlY1AWZ1rXXLO-Xbv0D) for the ordering and fulfillment processes.
- **Payment** – Define [payment methods](docId\:bn1swbkxaeWlwtnW3td1r) for the ordering and fulfillment processes.
- **Business Foundation** –  Define new objects and the relations between them to track data. 
- **Dictionaries** – [Work with dictionaries](docId\:H_OQJmoQ1CC9TQleKW2aT) to add property values to extend product data.

![CustomizedCommerce\_Administration.png](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/BrbvVORKJ5iIeSMZye5kI/T4ArTId_WBJ2alXHO4_s5-20260720-150118.png)

### Work in the administration view

You can edit a list item by clicking the item link or selecting **More Options** > **Edit**.

You can copy or delete a list item by selecting **More Options** > **Copy** or **Delete**. You may find copying an item helpful when creating a similar item.

You can delete multiple items by selecting the items and clicking **Delete Selected** > **Delete**.

![CustomizedCommerce\_AdministrationEditing.png](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/BrbvVORKJ5iIeSMZye5kI/mSBuf4ueMloxqwadbrGAo-20260720-150118.png)

## Other configurations

You can configure some features in Commerce Connect from the Optimizely CMS editing and administration views:

- [Languages](docId\:NtcXDHpZPMMG7_jNk5cTU) for storefront content.
- [Permissions](docId\:PfnMt74WJPlUODTDBhtLO) for managing access to specific functions.
- [Scheduled jobs](docId\:P1wLWNLvl6Hv1ctfAwZU8) for running batch updates.