Title: Multisite store setup failed
Last modified: July 9, 2020

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# Multisite store setup failed

 *  Resolved [SoundFingers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/highdub/)
 * (@highdub)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-store-setup-failed/)
 * Hello folks,
    I need insight regarding my wordpress multisite store. I have my
   main domain in english and I created a subfolder subdomain in french. So I have
   mydomain.com and mydomain.com/fr.
 * I set up woocommerce on both sites and everything works.
    But I didn’t know at
   that time that the woocommerce stores on multisite are independant. What I want
   is that customers can acces their account and orders on whichever sites there
   are.
 * So here are my options :
 * – Delete my subdomain and use a translation plugin (since they usually create
   a ‘subdomain’ of their own, this solution doesn’t work if I keep my subdomain.)
 * – impot / export orders on both sites each time a customer make a purchase (ok
   for now but what if I get more and more customers ?)
 * – create another subdomain for store management (what about woocommerce translation
   in this case ?)
 * – buy an expensive plugin to handle multistore (it would be best if I can avoid
   it…)
 * Another question : I made a backup of my website. If I delete the subdomain to
   try the one-translated-domain solution : are the corresponding database tables
   going to be deleted aswell ?
 * Sorry, that’s a whole bunch of questions…
    Thank you in advance for your advices!
   Matt

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-store-setup-failed/#post-13109678)
 * Yes, if you delete a subsite its corresponding DB tables are dropped. They still
   exist in the earlier backup of course 🙂
 * It’s possible to cause one subsite to get data from another, so in theory user
   and order data could be shared. This is not optimal. Additionally, don’t you 
   have a lot of redundant product data? Sure, the descriptions are in a different
   language, but they’re still the same products, right? Also not optimal.
 * IMO you are better off with a single site installation with one store. Use a 
   multilingual plugin to manage languages. You really don’t want to use multisite
   unless there is an obvious need. There are numerous disadvantages over single
   site you’ll want to avoid where possible. I personally would even opt for 2 or
   maybe even 3 single sites over multisite. Clearly multisite is called for if 
   we’re talking about numerous subsites. We are not, aren’t we?
 * Converting multisite data to multilingual single site is not trivial. But setting
   up an optimal site from the start is very important. Fighting with a sub-optimal
   setup will be ongoing. It’s better to make it right early on when less data is
   involved.
 * You can construct the new single site in a subfolder so the current site is still
   accessible for reference. When the site is built and ready to go, you can direct
   primary domain requests to the single site through virtual host or .htaccess 
   rewrites, or actually move the installation to public root, replacing the multisite
   installation.
 *  Thread Starter [SoundFingers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/highdub/)
 * (@highdub)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-store-setup-failed/#post-13139302)
 * Hi again,
    Thank you for your advices, I also dug up informations online and 
   I did what you said and everything works fine !
 * Thank you very much for taking time to give me an answer.
    Take care, Matt

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