What's the difference between 'Online Store' and 'Storefront' channels?

Short and sweet, can anyone tell me what the difference is between the “Online Store” Channel and the “Storefront” channel. Do i need both selected? What does each fo for me?

Hi!

So the quick explanation of this is that the ‘Online store’ channel is your normal Shopify store, the one you can edit with the theme and customizer. The ‘Storefront’ is for headless websites which are API based.

For the product to be live on your normal Shopify website, all you have to do is selected the ‘Online store’ channel. But selecting them all does not hurt.

I hope this helps.

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