The Commerce API interacts with the commerce entities of your tenant, including shoppers’s active shopping
carts, checkouts, submitted orders, wishlists, and returns as well as B2B quotes.Use the Carts resource to manage storefront shopping carts as shoppers add and remove items for purchase.
Each time a shopper’s cart is modified, the Carts resource updates the estimated total with any
applicable
discounts.Use the Channels and Channel Groups resources to manage the channels a company uses to create logical
commercial business divisions based on region or types of sales, such as “US Online,” “Amazon,” or “EMEA
Retail.”
All orders include a channel association that enables the company to perform financial reporting for
each defined channel.
Because channels are managed at the tenant level, you must associate all the tenant’s sites with a
channel. Sites that do not
have a defined channel association cannot successfully submit orders.Use the Checkouts resource to track a shopper’s order items and their intended destinations on sites that
have the multiple shipment feature enabled.Use the Orders resource to manage all components of order processing, payment, and order-level
fulfillment.Use the Quotes resource to support B2B functionality by managing order quotes, similar to wishlists.Use the Returns resource to manage returned items that were previously fufilled. Returns can include any
number of items associated with an original
order. Each return must either be associated with an original order or a product definition to represent
each returned item.Use the Wish Lists resource to manage the shopper wish lists of products associated with a customer
account. Although customer accounts are managed at the tenant
level, the system stores shopper wish lists at the site level. This enables the same customer to have
wish lists for each of a merchant’s sites. The Wish List Items
resource allows you to manage the individual items in a wish list.
