This year, I had the opportunity to speak at the Sitecore Symposium 2019 alongside my co-speaker Kendell Patrice 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 commerce. The presentation and live demo…
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…
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, Part 2 on configuration of XC9 here, and Part 3 on customization & plugins here. In the post, we'll be lookin the Commerce…
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 and Part 2 on configuration of XC9 here. In this post, I'll be explaining how you can customize Commerce Engine. Key Extension Points…
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. In this post, I'll be going through the core building blocks for configuration of XC 9. Core Concepts The key concepts that…
Last week, I gave a presentation 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 title, with this being the first part on Experience Commerce…
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't installed the OData v4 Client Code…
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…
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 can be…
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 checks were…