Category: Commerce

Commerce

Sitecore Commerce – Buy now pay smarter

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Why pay today when you could pay smarter? Online and offline businesses can offer their customers to pay in instalments. Recently started working for a client who has a chain of physical stores. On the stores, they offer this ability to their customer to pay in instalments using Openpay. Openpay is an online credit facility for shopping online or in-store, and the interesting part is, it’s always interest-free. The retail website(atozshopping.com for argument sake) for online shopping is built using Sitecore and Sitecore Commerce(SXC). The customers could only pay through Creditcard and Paypal. We started working with integrating Openpay for online shopping. This is how the high-level architecture would look like     Benefits: The customers will have the same experience on atozshopping as they get in a store There will be a potential increase in sales, as the Openpay customers can buy on atozshopping Openpay eCommerce Flow:  The Openpay end to end flow with any retail website looks like […]

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Multiple Delivery Calculations – Sitecore Commerce

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While working with one of the clients recently, we had to implement a product-specific delivery calculation. Certain products sold online, are delivered by the company itself and they have fix delivery charges for each region. While certain products(depending on the size/nature) are delivered through other courier services. Since the delivery charges can differ depending on the courier service, we have to calculate/fetch delivery charges for particular products. Let’s say a customer adds two products to the cart Bluetooth Speaker Baby Cart Since speakers are delivered by the company itself, we use the internal delivery fee using a delivery fee book. For baby-cart, we integrate to the external courier delivery fee service. For the sake of this article, I am calling Speaker as Internal product while baby-cart as external product. In commerce engine solution we have a feature called fulfilment, this feature has CalculateCartDeliveryBlock which calculates the delivery fee for internal products. This […]

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Sitecore Commerce – Robust Integration to External Systems

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Sitecore commerce provides almost all the commerce features out of the box. For example, we get Catalog/product management, pricing management, delivery fee management etc. All the commerce applications we create using Sitecore Commerce get the option to use these features and go to market. But at times, we use other tools rather just Sitecore Commerce to manage our business needs. I will explain this in details. Recently working on a Sitecore commerce project, we came across a situation where Product Management is done outside the Sitecore Commerce Environment. The client is using a legacy system which manages catalogs and products. In order to sync those products from the legacy system into Sitecore Commerce Catalogs, we considered certain options Exposing an API in SC Commerce which accepts a list of products. When new products are created or there are changes to existing products, the legacy system would pass them to our API Exposing an […]

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Sitecore Experience Commerce Architecture – Satellite View

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Sitecore Experience Commerce(SXC) provides a stupendous solution to the e-commerce world which can be customized to fill in the requirements for B2B: Businesses to business B2C: Business to end customer. This post assumes the readers are across commerce concepts in general e.g. business entities, catalogs, carts, orders, checkout process, payments, inventory management, order fulfilment etc. In this post, I will share a holistic overview of SXC architecture. Who should read this? Sitecore developers who are working or potentially going to work on SXC, architects who are looking into how SXC functions. Since SXC is part of the Sitecore platform, the basic understanding of Sitecore is required. In the future posts, I will be describing different parts of SXC in detail. SXC Architecture: Sitecore XC is comprised of the following components.  Sitecore Experience Platform aka XP in Sitecore world. Sitecore Experience Accelerator Storefront(SXA) Sitecore Commerce Engine Connect layer between storefront and Commerce Engine  Business Tool Identity Server Basic understanding of these components would […]

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Fedearted Payment in Sitecore Commerce

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Most businesses are going online from just being physical, online shopping is the simplest and biggest example. Online businesses mainly involve, selling of services or products. This transformation from physical to online brought the world closer. While sitting in Sydney, I can order something from United States. With many advantages, there are challenges as well of course. I am writing about one of the challenges here, providing multiple payment options to your customers. Customers around the world have different preferences for making payments. Some might prefer direct credit card(CC) payments while others may like Paypal. And with every passing day, new methods of online payment are being introduced e.g. digital wallets like Google pay or Apple Pay. Venmo is another very famous payment option. As an online seller, it’s important to realize the fact of having payment options on a website as per the preferences of our customers. Otherwise, bounces are […]