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How to Get Certified in Sitecore XM Cloud

Sitecore XM Cloud is a fully managed cloud platform using Sitecore’s headless CMS. At a high level, it includes among other things: * Experience Manager * Pages editor * Sitecore Headless Experience Accelerator (SXA) * Headless Services * Sitecore Next.js SDK * Experience Edge Detailed XM Cloud documentation can be found here if you&

Azure AD

How to Integrate Azure AD with Sitecore Content Management in 10 Easy Steps

This guide is split up into 3 sections- the first section lists down steps to configure Azure Active Directory (AD), the second section goes through configuration of Sitecore Identity Server, and the last section covers the configuration of Sitecore Content Management (CM) instance. Azure AD 1. Create New App Registration

Sitecore OrderCloud

Sitecore OrderCloud Product Bulk Import

While researching and writing a post on Sitecore OrderCloud Product Catalog Management [https://sitecoredude.com/product-catalog-management-in-sitecore-ordercloud/], I couldn't find any documentation on bulk product imports. I thought I might have missed it in the documentation and reached out to some friends at Sitecore and got a confirmation that

Sitecore OrderCloud

How to Get Certified in Sitecore OrderCloud

Sitecore OrderCloud is an API-first, headless commerce cloud platform for B2B, B2C, and B2X. If you don't know much about the platform, fret not- have a look at some of my earlier posts for an introduction, platform overview, and data model basics. Before we begin, kudos to you

Sitecore OrderCloud

How to Recover Abandoned Carts in Sitecore OrderCloud with Sitecore Send

Did you know that the average cart abandonment rate is a whopping 69%! Given that 45% of cart abandonment emails are opened, 21% are clicked on, and 50% of the users who do click eventually go through with the purchase, it's a no-brainer that you need a solid

Sitecore OrderCloud

How to Deploy Next.js Commerce Storefront with Vercel Sitecore OrderCloud Integration in 5 Easy Steps

In this post, I'll walk you through how you can build and deploy Next.js Commerce [https://nextjs.org/commerce] storefront with Vercel [https://vercel.com/] using Vercel's Sitecore OrderCloud [https://ordercloud.io/] integration [https://vercel.com/integrations/ordercloud]. Next.js Commerce is a React starter

Sitecore OrderCloud

10 Sessions You Shouldn't Miss at Sitecore Symposium 2021

October is right around the corner and you know what that means- Symposium!! If you haven't already, head over here [https://sym-reg.sitecore.com/flow/sitecore/symposium2021/reg/process] to register- its 100% free this year. The lineup is amazing and all sessions look really interesting. However as

Sitecore OrderCloud

How to Seed Sitecore OrderCloud with Sample Data and Anatomy of a B2C Solution

If you want to quickly get up and running with some test data in OrderCloud, you came to right place. In this post, not only will I show you how to seed OrderCloud with sample data, but I'll also walk through all of the individual data elements created

Sitecore OrderCloud

Product Catalog Management in OrderCloud

OrderCloud [https://ordercloud.io/] provides a robust set of features to allow you to implement a solution that meets a diverse range of business requirements. In earlier posts, I discussed high level architecture [https://sitecoredude.com/ordercloud-platform-architecture/] and the key entities [https://sitecoredude.com/ordercloud-data-model-and-key-entities/] that make up the OrderCloud

Sitecore OrderCloud

Ecommerce Business Models Supported by OrderCloud

In an earlier post [https://sitecoredude.com/ordercloud-data-model-and-key-entities/] on key entities in OrderCloud, I touched on how a flexible data model allows you to design a solution based specifically on the needs of your unique business. Here I'll dig deeper into some of the most common business models

Sitecore OrderCloud

OrderCloud Data Model and Key Entities

OrderCloud provides a very flexible data model to support different ecommerce strategies and models based on the business type and complexity. This can range from a simple B2C model to a more complex B2B marketplaces. At the heart this data model are the following key entities that you need to

Sitecore OrderCloud

OrderCloud Platform Architecture

This post provides a high level overview of the key components of the OrderCloud platform and typical layers of an ecommerce solution built with OrderCloud. Ecommerce Features OrderCloud provides a complete set of core commerce functionality that is exposed through RESTful APIs: * Product and Catalog management * Buyer and Seller management

Sitecore OrderCloud

MACH Architecture for Ecommerce

OrderCloud is a MACH certified product. If you don't know what OrderCloud is, head over to my post here [https://sitecoredude.com/introduction-to-ordercloud/] containing a quick introduction to the platform. > So what is MACH? MACH stands for Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native and Headless. MACH technologies support a composable

Sitecore OrderCloud

Introduction to OrderCloud

Following on from the acquisition of Four51 by Sitecore [https://sitecoredude.com/say-hello-to-four51-ordercloud/], this is the first part of a series of posts where I'll walk you through the OrderCloud platform. > So what is Four51 OrderCloud? Four51 is a B2B-first ecommerce company headquartered in Minneapolis that was

Sitecore OrderCloud

Say Hello to Four51 OrderCloud & Boxever

As you may have heard recently, Sitecore has been on a buying spree with a series of acquisitions of SaaS based products following the announcement [https://www.sitecore.com/company/news-events/press-releases/2021/01/sitecore-embarks-on-1_2b-investment-plan-to-accelerate-growth] earlier this year of a $1.2B investment plan to accelerate growth. Coming off

Sitecore Experience Commerce

The future of voice commerce with smart displays powered by Sitecore Experience Commerce

This year, I had the opportunity to speak at the Sitecore Symposium 2019 alongside my co-speaker Kendell Patrice [https://au.linkedin.com/in/kendell-patrice-3b60b311] in the Commerce track. I was very excited and honoured to present on a topic that is very much on trend and cutting edge- personalized voice

Sitecore Experience Commerce

What is a Minions Boss in Commerce Engine?

When you look at the Commerce Engine minions environment json config, you might notice an interesting policy called the MinionBossPolicy which looks like this: You might have wondered to yourself- what the #!@$# is a Minions Boss Policy? Boss Minion As the name suggests, a boss minion is a minion that

Sitecore Experience Commerce

All you need to know about Sitecore Experience Commerce 9 - Part 4: Commerce Service API

This is Part 4 of my series on all you need to know about Sitecore Experience Commerce 9. You can read Part 1 on XC9 architecture here [https://sitecoredude.com/all-you-need-to-know-about-sitecore-experience-commerce-9-part-1/] , Part 2 on configuration of XC9 here [https://sitecoredude.com/all-you-need-to-know-about-sitecore-experience-commerce-9-part-2-configuration/] , and Part 3 on customization & plugins here

Sitecore Experience Commerce

All you need to know about Sitecore Experience Commerce 9 - Part 3: Customization & Plugins

This is Part 3 of my series on all you need to know about Sitecore Experience Commerce 9. You can read Part 1 on XC9 architecture here [https://sitecoredude.com/all-you-need-to-know-about-sitecore-experience-commerce-9-part-1/] and Part 2 on configuration of XC9 here [https://sitecoredude.com/all-you-need-to-know-about-sitecore-experience-commerce-9-part-2-configuration/] . In this post, I'll be

Sitecore Experience Commerce

All you need to know about Sitecore Experience Commerce 9 - Part 2: Configuration

This is Part 2 of my series on all you need to know about Sitecore Experience Commerce 9. You can read Part 1 on XC 9 architecture here [https://sitecoredude.com/all-you-need-to-know-about-sitecore-experience-commerce-9-part-1/] . In this post, I'll be going through the core building blocks for configuration of XC 9.

Sitecore Experience Commerce

All you need to know about Sitecore Experience Commerce 9 - Part 1: Architecture

Last week, I gave a presentation [https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/Melbourne-Sitecore-CMS-Meetup/events/261129411/] on Sitecore Experience Commerce 9, covering quite a few topics all the way from architecture, extension and plugins,to Commerce APIs. I'll be covering these in a series of blog posts with the same

Sitecore Experience Commerce

Error rebuilding Sitecore Commerce ServiceProxy in Sitecore Commerce 8.2.1

When rebuilding the Sitecore Commerce ServiceProxy, you may get an error similar to the following: > Compiling transformation: The type or namespace name 'Values' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.OData.Edm' (are you missing an assembly reference?) At first I thought I hadn'

Sitecore Experience Commerce

How to change the type of a field in Sitecore Commerce 8.2.1

I was in a pickle recently when I created a new field in Sitecore Commerce 8.2.1, but accidentally set the wrong type (string instead of bool). I thought getting rid of the field, and starting from scratch with the right type would do the trick. But I was

Sitecore Experience Commerce

Commerce Indexes: Sitecore Commerce 8.2.1 vs Experience Commerce 9

In Sitecore Experience Commerce 9, the way you rebuild Commerce indexes (used by Order/Customer/Catalog Manager in Commerce 8.2.1 and Business Tools in XC9) has changed. Here's a quick rundown of the difference: Sitecore Commerce 8.2.1 Commerce indexes are defined in Sitecore and

Sitecore Experience Commerce

How to disable stock level check in Sitecore Experience Commerce 9

Recently, I had a requirement to disable stock check for all products (Sitecore XC 9.0 Update 2). After going through OOTB policies, I found the GlobalInventoryPolicy with a CheckStockLevel property that I set to false: After bootstrapping, I found that it didn't make any difference and inventory