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| 06 OCT 2021 | Created initial document. |
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With this release, Oracle Commerce customers can now easily add new plug-in services, both Oracle and 3rd party, to their storefront using page tags. Examples of plug-in services include analytics, chat services, and A/B testing.
This feature provides a centralized area in our Commerce Administration UI to both add and manage the page tags for a site. Previously, this required that a developer make code changes to the storefront to add these page tags.
Capability highlights
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- Add Javascript page tag to the <head>, top of <body> or end of <body> sections.
- Re-order the page tags for each section.
- Enable/disable and delete tags.
Integration with Oracle Content Management (OSF)
This Oracle Commerce integration with Oracle Content Management (OCM) now allows you to create and maintain the appearance of content pages within Design Studio using our new content item container and content field widgets.
NOTE: This integration applies only to sites using Open Storefront Framework (OSF).
This update provides a richer customer experience, more efficient content creation, and a faster implementation allowing users to implement and configure the integration entirely through the Commerce Administration UI.
Capability highlights
- A widget is now a container in OSF with new content field widgets that can be added and arranged on a layout in Design Studio with three new widgets: Content Text, Content Data, and Content Image.
- Display targeted, more relevant content on a page with a query-driven content listing widget.
- Enrich product detail pages with the new “product aware” mode for the content item widget.
- Improve search engine results pages with dynamic metadata.
This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:
| Date | Product | Feature | Notes |
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| 12 AUG 2021 | Created initial document. |
This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in this update.
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OSF Account-Based Shopping - Unbranded Reference Store
With this release, Commerce is introducing an unbranded reference store that provides a starting point to help accelerate Open Storefront Framework (OSF) deployments. Leveraging best practices, the reference store includes a starter store for account-based shopping flows in addition to a ” blank” starter store.
The reference store template includes a large library of React-based page components (widgets), across a wide variety of Commerce functionality. Developers can deliver a faster, more responsive and richer user-experience.
Capability highlights
- OSF reference storefront application is built using ReactJS and leveraging the core technologies of HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Account-based reference storefront application provides pre-packaged rich library of reference components
- Features available as part of the account-based store:
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- Account/contact self-registration
- Login for account-based commerce
- Purchase list and sharing of purchase list
- Scheduled orders
- Quick order and copy order
- Order capture (volume pricing, account specific shipping and payments, invoice payments)
- Order approvals
- Manage account-level addresses and inherited addresses in profile and checkout
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This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:
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| 30 JUL 2021 | Created initial document. |
This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in this update.
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B2B Account-Wide Recommendations
With this release, Oracle Commerce’s machine learning-driven recommendations engine now uses account-wide relationships to drive recommendations to buyers. The behavior of all contacts within a B2B account is considered. While recommendations continue to be generated for an individual buyer, the system also factors in key information on other buyers within the same account.
Capability highlights
- Shared account behavior ensures that buyers now see relevant recommendations based on interaction from all buyers across an account.
- Decision science determines commonality between buyers in the same account and uses this information to enhance recommendations.
- Works in harmony with AI Recommendation Strategies and Exclusions, released in Oracle Commerce 21A revision 3.
This feature applies to B2B customers only.
This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:
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This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in this update.
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With this Commerce release, enhancements to punchout make it quicker and easier to integrate punchout capabilities with key purchasing systems, such as Oracle EBS or Fusion procurement systems.
Capability Highlights
- New Admin APIs (available on storefront via /ccapp) to cache objects against an auto-generated key. Can be used as a session ID for punchout flow with OAuth token.
- Updated server-side extensions (SSE) to:
- Use above endpoint to cache OAuth token and session id.
- Provide new redirect endpoint to be returned to ERP. This endpoint picks up OAuth token from the Commerce cache before redirecting the user to Commerce home page.
This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:
| Date | Product | Feature | Notes |
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| 13 JUL 2021 | Created initial document. |
This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in this update.
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The release of the Commerce Multisite Cart feature enables customers to implement a shared cart strategy across their sites, providing a single seamless cart experience across multiple sites.
For merchants with multiple sites, a merchant can use the feature to share the shopping cart, allowing a shopper to have a single shopping cart across sites. This means that shoppers can add products from multiple sites into a single cart and purchase all products in the same order using a single set of shopper credentials (login name and password).
Capability highlights
- Customers managing multiple sites in a single environment can set up a site group that is configured for cart sharing.
- Applicable for both B2C and B2B customers
- Agent Console can be customized via API to support Multisite Cart.
- An administrator can easily set up and manage a shared cart via API.
- Supports site-specific promotions, as well as promotions that apply to sites that share a cart.
NOTE: Customers who want to use Multisite Cart must build their storefronts using Open Storefront Framework (OSF).
Shipping Method Update - External ID Property (API only)
With this new enhancement, you can now store an ID generated from a third-party shipping system allowing you to map shipping methods easily across systems.
Capability highlights
- Allows users to store the ID from an external shipping system on a Commerce shipping method.
- External ID is included in the shipping method information in the external shipping webhook and added to docShippingAdminEndpoints swagger.
Shipping Method Internal Name Property Exposed in Admin UI
The Shipping Method Internal Name Property API feature was delivered in Oracle Commerce 21A revision 11. This update allows you to create an identifier on shipping methods that is hidden from shoppers, using the Commerce Administration UI.
The internal ID allows merchants to have multiple shipping methods with the same display name for shoppers but be able to identify them distinguish between them internally when managing promotions.
Capability highlights
- Makes it easier for users to identify the correct shipping methods to add to shipping promotions.
- Users can create multiple shipping methods with the same display name on the storefront to be used in different contexts (e.g. you may want to display "Ground Shipping" to shoppers for two different shipping methods, one on the U.S. site and one on the Canadian site).
- Internal names automatically are displayed in the Shipping Method editor in Shipping Discount promotions editor.
With this new Oracle Commerce feature, you can create custom behavior for individual promotions when the out of the box behavior does not meet your requirements. For example, you can control how promotions are applied at a more granular level and override default behavior regarding how promotions are combined.
Capability highlights:
- Allow items in a cart to receive more than one item discount.
- Specify whether items that are qualifiers for a promotion can be targets for a different promotion.
- Specify whether items can be qualifiers for more than one condition.
- Control whether items already on sale can receive a promotion.
This Commerce update introduces an enhancement to the Preview functionality by providing a convenient method for previewing future content changes. Prior to this update, you could vary store content and catalog assets by date and time, however, preview only worked on current server time. You can now apply a date and time filter in Preview and view pages as they will be on the designated future date and time.
Capability highlights
- This filter can be combined with other filters in Preview such as the Audience and Viewport filters.
- The date and time filter allow you to view the following types of content:
- Promotions and promotional content scheduled for a future date and time
- Widgets configured in slots against a future date and time
Open Storefront Framework (OSF) Configure-Price Components
This Oracle Commerce Open Storefront Framework (OSF) update provides a set of out-of-the-box components used to integrate with Oracle Configure Price Quote (CPQ) in price and configure scenarios.
Capability highlights:
- Support in OSF JS API to interface with the Commerce Server-Side Extension (SSE) that handles orchestration with CPQ Rest API.
- Configure widget for placement on Product Detail Page (PDP) to open configuration dialog.
- Provides UI components for common configuration types:
- Includes selector types - radio buttons, drop-downs, toggles, date/time picker
- Support for CPQ array set selections in a table
- Displays updated pricing based on configuration selections.
- Ability to add configured product to the cart.
- Ability to edit configured product from the cart.
This Commerce update introduces a significant enhancement to the publishing functionality with the release of worksets. Worksets are a new way to selectively publish and designed to provide teams with tools for better collaboration and visibility.
A workset is a container for teams to manage and share their work, allowing you to group items as you create, edit, or delete. You publish the workset instead of selecting items from a large list of changes. providing a more efficient publishing process.
Capability highlights
- Provides visibility into work being done and when other users have changed the same items in other worksets.
- Groups changes for publishing as users are working.
- Publishing users can easily track and select groups of changes to publish.
Custom Properties on Purchase List Line Items (API Only)
This Commerce release introduces custom properties on purchase list line items. You can now add procurement-related properties to purchase list line items, enabling requisitioners to provide critical information to buyers and suppliers. Examples of such properties include notes for the buyer, notes for the supplier, budget date, charge account, funds status, and project to be charged.
NOTE: This feature is API only.
Capability highlights
- You can create, update, and delete custom properties on purchase list line items.
- As a requisitioner, you can fill in the properties on purchase list line items, communicating requirements to the buyer and potentially to the fulfillment system.