# CBX on Magento 2

> What changes when CBX runs inside a Magento 2 store — and which parts of this guide apply to you.

Source: CBX documentation, version 4.0 preview (unreleased). Canonical page: https://docs.configbox.at/docs/4.0-preview/admin-guide/magento2/. Last updated 2026-08-01.

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> **Audience:** store admins on Magento 2 · **Scope:** what is different on Magento, and which parts of this guide apply · **Last reviewed:** 2026-07-25

**TL;DR** — On Magento 2, CBX is the **configurator**; **Magento is the shop**. You build
products, questions, rules and prices in CBX and attach them to your Magento catalog
products — cart, checkout, orders, customers, emails, taxes, shipping and payment are all
handled by Magento, exactly as for any other Magento product. Roughly half of this guide
therefore isn't for you; this page tells you which half, so you never go looking for a screen
that isn't there.

## Articles

1. **[Connect a CBX product to a Magento product](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/4.0-preview/admin-guide/magento2/connect-a-magento-product)** — the
   one Magento-specific task: making a catalog product configurable.

## Who does what — the one table to internalize

| Job | Done in | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Building the configurator — products, pages, questions, answers, rules, prices, visual preview | **CBX** | **Configbox → Administration** in the Magento admin |
| Product catalog, listings, product pages | **Magento** | **Catalog → Products** |
| Cart & checkout | **Magento** | the standard Magento storefront |
| Orders, invoices, shipments, credit memos | **Magento** | **Sales → Orders** |
| Customers and accounts | **Magento** | **Customers** |
| All customer emails (order confirmations etc.) | **Magento** | Magento's transactional emails — CBX sends **no** email here |
| Taxes | **Magento** | tax classes/rules on the Magento product; configurator prices follow them |
| Currencies, price display, languages | **Magento** | store configuration and store views |
| Shipping & payment methods | **Magento** | Magento's shipping/payment setup |
| Discounts & promotions | **Magento** | cart price rules, applied on top of the configured price |

## Your CBX menu is shorter — that's normal

You reach CBX through the **Configbox** entry in the Magento admin sidebar — its single
item, **Administration**, opens the complete CBX admin:

![The Configbox entry in the Magento admin menu](img/magento-menu-configbox.jpeg)

Because Magento owns the shop, the CBX menu on Magento shows only four entries:
**Dashboard, Products, Calculations, Settings**. Everything else this guide's
[getting-started menu tour](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/4.0-preview/admin-guide/getting-started/) lists — Orders, Customers, Reviews,
Product Lists, Countries, Shipping, Payment Methods, Store Information, Customer Fields,
Notifications — is deliberately hidden, because those jobs are done in the corresponding
Magento screens (table above). Nothing is broken and nothing needs enabling.

![The CBX admin inside Magento, with its four-entry menu](img/configbox-admin-dashboard.jpeg)

## Which parts of this guide apply to you

| System | On Magento 2 |
|---|---|
| [Getting started](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/4.0-preview/admin-guide/getting-started/) | **Read it** — the list/edit screen conventions and the dashboard work the same. Skip the menu entries your menu doesn't show. |
| [Products & configurator](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/4.0-preview/admin-guide/products/) | **Fully applies** — this is your main manual. (Exception: *product lists* — Magento's catalog does that job.) |
| [Rules — conditional logic](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/4.0-preview/admin-guide/rules/) | **Fully applies.** |
| [Pricing & calculations](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/4.0-preview/admin-guide/pricing/) | **Fully applies** for building prices. Taxes and currency come from Magento, not from CBX screens. |
| [Customers, taxes, shipping & payment](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/4.0-preview/admin-guide/commerce/) | **Skip it** — all of it is Magento's job. |
| [Orders & daily operations](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/4.0-preview/admin-guide/orders/) | **Skip it** — orders, customers, reviews and emails are Magento's. There are no order records inside CBX on Magento. |
| [Store settings](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/4.0-preview/admin-guide/settings/) | **Partly applies** — the Settings screen exists, but its commerce/checkout sections (and Store Information / Customer Fields) are hidden on Magento. |

## Where the configured product shows up

When a customer configures a product and adds it to the cart, the Magento cart line shows the
selected answers as the item's option value, priced at the CBX-calculated price.

![A Magento cart line showing the configured answers under Configuration, at the CBX-calculated price](img/magento-cart-line.jpeg)

The Magento **order** carries the same selection summary plus the answer **SKUs** on the line
item — that is what fulfilment works from. From cart onward, everything (checkout, order status,
invoices, emails, refunds) is standard Magento — note the tax, shipping and totals above are all
Magento's, computed from the configured price.

## Good to know

- **CBX settings are not under Stores → Configuration.** They live in
  **Configbox → Administration → Settings** — Magento's system configuration has no CBX
  section on purpose.
- **Don't look for orders inside CBX.** The Orders screen doesn't exist on Magento; use
  **Sales → Orders**.
- **CBX sends no email on Magento.** If an article mentions notification emails, that's
  the other platforms — here, Magento's emails cover the order flow.
- **Quotations, saved carts, CBX customer accounts and CBX reviews** are part of
  CBX's own checkout on other platforms and are **not available** on Magento — use
  Magento equivalents where they exist.
- **One CBX configuration per Magento product.** A Magento product can carry exactly one
  CBX product link (see [connecting products](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/4.0-preview/admin-guide/magento2/connect-a-magento-product)).

For developers and integrators (installation, command line, technical behavior) →
`docs/platform/magento2/com_configbox_magento2_platform_guide.md`