Visual editing overview

Visual editing lets you change storefront content while viewing the page as shoppers see it.

New storefronts use Experience Workspace

Experience WorkspaceAdobe's recommended visual editor for Document Authoring (DA.live) projects. It lets you edit text and images directly on a page's rendered preview or live URL, without opening the underlying document. is the visual editor for new Commerce projects. Switching editors does not change how the Commerce features on your page work.

Experience Workspace early access

Experience Workspace is fully supported for Commerce authoring during early access.

We encourage you to try Experience Workspace. You can switch back to your existing authoring setup.

Existing Universal Editor projects remain supported

Support policy

Universal Editor access requires an active Adobe Commerce license. Adobe continues to support the following customers and projects:

• Customers already using the Universal Editor
• Projects already being built with the Universal Editor
• Customers who signed Commerce licenses based on Universal Editor features

This includes licensed customers starting implementation with the Universal Editor. New customers are onboarded to Experience Workspace.

You can continue your work and move to Experience Workspace on your own timeline.

What changes when you move

Before moving an existing Universal Editor project to Experience Workspace, compare these capabilities:

Capability	Universal Editor (deprecated)	Experience Workspace
Customer eligibility	Active Adobe Commerce license, including customers using the editor or starting or continuing implementation	New Commerce customers are onboarded to Experience Workspace; existing customers can try it
AI-assisted authoring	No	Yes
Layout, Content, and Split editing modes	No	Yes
Plugins: product picker, experimentation, and image variations	Yes	Coming soon
Edit content while viewing the storefront page	Yes	Yes
Content blocks and Commerce blocks	Yes	Yes
Tools for translation, scheduling, and publishing	Yes	Yes
Content source	Document Authoring (DA.live)	Document Authoring (DA.live)
Commerce systems: platform as a service (PaaS), Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service, Adobe Commerce Optimizer	Yes	Yes

For current features and setup instructions, see About Experience Workspace before planning your move.

More help on this topic

• Experience Workspace — Enable the editor and find instructions for editing, previewing, and publishing.
• Universal Editor (deprecated) — Edit content in an existing Universal Editor project.
• Universal Editor for developers (deprecated) — Maintain block definitions in an existing Universal Editor project.
• DA.live documentation — Create and manage content in Document Authoring.
• How a page comes together — Understand which parts of a page authors and developers control.