With StagingPro pre-installed on the Production site, note the Production store hash ID. You can see the Plan Level of the store to detect that it is a production Store. An example name of a production Plan Level is “Plan Level:Enterprise Plan Store” Similarly a Staging store, plan level is shown as “Plan Level:Sandbox Store”.
When you launch the StagingPro app on the Staging site, enter the Productions store hash here and click ‘Save’. The store hash is generally in the following format: https://store-a1b2c3d4e5.mybigcommerce.com/ which means a1b2c3d4e5 is the store hash ID
You will see the following notification message of a ‘connection request’ awaiting approval on the Production Store
Head over to the Production Store and click the ‘Approve’ button as per the screenshot below to authorise the ‘connection request’
Specify the name for your connected environment and choose one of the following three options and click ‘Ok’:
Just connect the Staging Environment
Delete Products, Brands and Categories from Staging Environment
Delete all catalog data move Data, Theme from Production to the Staging website.
The newly linked environment will show up on the Home Page list.
Repeat for all additional environments
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