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  1. UPDATE 21D REVISION 8
  1. Revision History
  2. Overview
  3. B2B Commerce
    1. Admin
        1. Improvements to Access Control for Registered Applications (API only)
  1. UPDATE 21D REVISION 4
  1. Revision History
  2. Overview
  3. B2B Commerce
    1. Promotions
        1. Limit Use of Promotions with Coupons
  1. UPDATE 21D REVISION 2
  1. Revision History
  2. Overview
  3. B2B Commerce
    1. Integrations
        1. Integration with Oracle Unity
    2. Publishing
        1. Publishing: Save Conflicts
  1. Update 21D
  1. Revision History
  2. Overview
  3. B2B Commerce
    1. Open Storefront Framework
        1. OSF Account-Based Shopping - Unbranded Reference Store
    2. Recommendations
        1. B2B Account-Wide Recommendations
    3. Integrations
        1. Integration with Oracle Content Management (OSF)
        2. Punchout Enhancements
    4. Admin
        1. Page Tags

Update 21D Revision 8

Revision History

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
06 DEC 2021 Created initial document.

Overview

HAVE AN IDEA?

We’re here and we’re listening. If you have a suggestion on how to make our cloud services even better then go ahead and tell us. There are several ways to submit your ideas, for example, through the Ideas Lab on Oracle Customer Connect. Wherever you see this icon after the feature name it means we delivered one of your ideas.

GIVE US FEEDBACK

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content. Please send us your feedback at oracle_fusion_applications_help_ww_grp@oracle.com.

DISCLAIMER

The information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle’s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle’s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information.

B2B Commerce

Admin

Improvements to Access Control for Registered Applications (API only)

This Commerce release introduces improvements to access control for registered external applications.

A registered application is an external application that is registered in the Settings > Web APIs > Registered Applications area of the Commerce Administration User Interface (Admin UI). Registering automatically generates an application ID identifying the application internally and an application key used to authenticate the application.   Once authenticated, a registered application can access Commerce functionality via REST APIs.

Capability highlights

  • You can use APIs to view and manage the set of roles assigned to a registered application.
  • You can restrict a registered application to accessing only specific endpoints (for a small, selected set of endpoints). 
  • Registered applications that are predefined and provided by Oracle are protected.  You cannot update or delete them.

Update 21D Revision 4

Revision History

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
08 NOV 2021 Created initial document.

Overview

HAVE AN IDEA?

We’re here and we’re listening. If you have a suggestion on how to make our cloud services even better then go ahead and tell us. There are several ways to submit your ideas, for example, through the Ideas Lab on Oracle Customer Connect. Wherever you see this icon after the feature name it means we delivered one of your ideas.

GIVE US FEEDBACK

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content. Please send us your feedback at oracle_fusion_applications_help_ww_grp@oracle.com.

DISCLAIMER

The information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle’s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle’s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information.

B2B Commerce

Promotions

Limit Use of Promotions with Coupons

With this Commerce enhancement, you can now limit the number of times a shopper can receive a promotion.   This feature is designed to work with promotions granted by coupons and is for registered shoppers only,

Capability highlights

  • Allows users to restrict promotions that use coupons to registered shoppers only.
  • Allows users to specify if a promotion can be granted more than once.
  • Provides the ability to determine how many times a registered shopper can receive a promotion per grant.

Update 21D Revision 2

Revision History

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
26 OCT 2021     Created initial document.

Overview

HAVE AN IDEA?

We’re here and we’re listening. If you have a suggestion on how to make our cloud services even better then go ahead and tell us. There are several ways to submit your ideas, for example, through the Ideas Lab on Oracle Customer Connect. Wherever you see this icon after the feature name it means we delivered one of your ideas.

GIVE US FEEDBACK

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content. Please send us your feedback at oracle_fusion_applications_help_ww_grp@oracle.com.

DISCLAIMER

The information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle’s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle’s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information.

B2B Commerce

Integrations

Integration with Oracle Unity

This Oracle Commerce update enables merchants to more accurately personalize shopper experiences based on the integration with Oracle Unity’s derived data elements.  You can now use enriched attributes from Unity’s multiple data sources that include not only extended profile attributes but a host of intelligent and behavioural attributes.   These attributes can be used to provide a personalized shopping experience to customers on their storefront.

Capability highlights

  • Ability to enable Unity Integration and enable Unity attribute selection
  • Enrich Commerce shopper profiles and accounts with Unity data. This data is persisted into regular profile and account properties and can be used anywhere that profiles and accounts are exposed.
  • Commerce to Unity synchronization: Incremental synchronization is automated for profiles.  
  • Unity to Commerce (using Customer360 API): User profile and account attributes are synchronized from Unity at the start of the shopper session and upon login.
  • Merchants can more accurately personalize shopper experiences including cold start personalization for shoppers not known to the merchant on the storefront but known to Unity.

Publishing

Publishing: Save Conflicts

This Oracle Commerce update provides improved collaboration for Commerce users in situations when other users’ actions can affect their work.  Our new Save Conflicts feature detects when multiple users in our Admin UI have been working on the same item and gives a warning to help users avoid conflicts.

Capability highlights

  • Gives the user information before they save and overwrite another user’s changes.
  • Prevents errors when multiple team members are working on the same items.

Update 21D

Revision History

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
07 OCT 2021     Created initial document.

Overview

HAVE AN IDEA?

We’re here and we’re listening. If you have a suggestion on how to make our cloud services even better then go ahead and tell us. There are several ways to submit your ideas, for example, through the Ideas Lab on Oracle Customer Connect. Wherever you see this icon after the feature name it means we delivered one of your ideas.

GIVE US FEEDBACK

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content. Please send us your feedback at oracle_fusion_applications_help_ww_grp@oracle.com.

DISCLAIMER

The information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle’s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle’s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information.

B2B Commerce

Open Storefront Framework

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:
      • 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

Recommendations

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.

Integrations

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.

Punchout Enhancements

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.

Admin

Page Tags

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

    • 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.