# Edit from the storefront as a manager

> Tweak a product while looking at the live configurator, using the manager's inline edit controls.

Source: CBX documentation, version 3.x (released). Canonical page: https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/products/edit-from-the-storefront. Last updated 2026-08-01.

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> **Audience:** store admins · **Scope:** in-context editing from the storefront · **Last reviewed:** 2026-07-23

**What this does** — When you're signed into your site as a store manager, the storefront
configurator gains **inline edit controls**. You can adjust a question or answer while looking at
the live product — the exact thing the customer sees — instead of guessing from the back-office
form.

## Before you start

- Be **logged into your site** with a manager/administrator account (the same account you use for
  the CBX back office).
- Open the product on the storefront and start configuring it:

  ![The Shirt Configurator on the storefront](img/storefront-editing.jpeg)

## Steps

1. Hover a question or answer. As a logged-in manager you get an inline edit control on it that a
   normal shopper never sees.
2. Click it. The matching back-office edit form opens **in context** — the same question or
   answer form you'd reach from **Products**, but launched from where you were looking.
3. Change the label, price, ordering or rule, and **Save**.
4. Reload the storefront page to see the change live, and keep going.

## What happens next

Your edit is a normal back-office change — it takes effect for every customer immediately. The
inline controls are only ever shown to signed-in managers; shoppers see the clean configurator.

## Good to know

- This is the "build a little, then look at the storefront" loop from
  [how a product fits together](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/products/how-a-product-fits-together) — it just saves the round trip
  back to the admin tree for small tweaks.
- The forms you reach this way are the same ones documented in
  [add pages and questions](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/products/add-pages-and-questions) and [add answers](https://docs.configbox.at/docs/admin-guide/products/add-answers); the
  fields and rules behave identically.
- For structural work — adding pages, reordering the tree, bulk changes — the back-office
  **Products** screens are still the better place; inline editing shines for quick, in-place fixes.