Rameez Akram

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

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

Recently, I encountered the following error when adding a line item to the cart: Item 'x' is not purchasable. After inspecting the out of the box XC plugins, I found that there could be a quite a few blocks where this error could originate from since validations are happening at

If you've had a chance to install Sitecore Experience Commerce 9, you would have realised that a range of certificates are generated during the install process. And you may be wondering- what the $@#! are they all used for? Fear not. I'll talk you through each of them. In a nutshell,

I recently had to migrate a Catalog from Sitecore Commerce 8.2.1 to Sitecore Experience Commerce 9.0.2. After generating the Commerce 9 compatible Catalog JSON files through the provided migration tool in Commerce 9 Update 2, I proceeded to import the Catalog using the ImportCatalogs() endpoint under

The default hostname for the Identity Server in Sitecore XC9 is https://localhost:5050. Here’s how you can change this to your custom URL: Update BizFx (Business Tools) Update the IdentityServerUri parameter in SitecoreBizFx\assets\config.json in your BizFX instance: Update Commerce Engine with new URL Update the

After following the default installation steps for Sitecore Experience Commerce 9, you will end up with a storefront called 'CommerceEngineDefaultStorefront'. In order to customise the name of your storefront, you need to make changes in a couple of different places. Let’s get to it- here’s what you need

Before I show you how, you must be wondering- why? When developing for Sitecore Experience Commerce 9 and using Postman, you need to disable Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) validation which in turned ON by default. In order to do this, you need to set AntiForgeryEnabled to false in wwwroot\config.