Sitecore XC9 offers a new rich & responsive Business Tools UI that allows merchandisers and CSRs to manage products, orders, customers, and promotions among other things with ease. It is built on SPEAK 3 which is Angular based & is hosted in as a separate app on IIS or Azure App Service.

After a vanilla install of Sitecore Experience Commerce 9, you will see the following icon to access Business Tools in the Sitecore Launchpad: If you need to override the default settings for this link- no sweat, I'll show you how. Switch to the core database and navigate to: > /sitecore/client/

The default URL for Business Tools in Sitecore XC9 is https://localhost:4200. You probably want to update this. Here’s how: Update BizFx Update the BizFxUri parameter in SitecoreBizFx\assets\config.json in your BizFX instance: Update Commerce Engine to allow the new BizFx URL Update the AllowedOrigins parameter

After installing Sitecore Experience Commerce 9 Update 2 and customising my storefront name in the Commerce Control Panel, I went over to Business Tools to have a look at the beauty. But all I got was a never ending spinner: Responding to muscle memory, I wandered to the Commerce Engine