Sitecore Experience Commerce: Free Gift With Purchase Explained

Gift with purchase (GWP) is a sales tactic that entices and converts shoppers. GWP lets shoppers buy one or more products and receive one or more free products. If you think back to eating cereal as a kid, the prizes you got with them, or the toy your kids might get with their McDonalds Happy… Continue reading Sitecore Experience Commerce: Free Gift With Purchase Explained

Sitecore Experience Commerce: Dynamic Bundles Explained

In the latest Sitecore Experience Commerce release (XC10) we see the introduction of the dynamic bundle feature. Dynamic bundles enables a merchandising strategy that lets shoppers buy a group of products easily. Different to static bundles, the shopper can modify the items within a dynamic bundle which is reflective in the bundles price. Some merchants… Continue reading Sitecore Experience Commerce: Dynamic Bundles Explained

Migrating Microsoft Commerce Server Passwords to Sitecore (Microsoft ASP.NET Membership Provider)

A few years ago (back in 2013) before Sitecore took ownership of Microsoft Commerce Server I had to migrate users from a pure Commerce Server implementation into Sitecore. I was pretty easy to do, took about a day to figure things out from what I remember. Here is a small POC I produced at the… Continue reading Migrating Microsoft Commerce Server Passwords to Sitecore (Microsoft ASP.NET Membership Provider)

Wish List Reference For Sitecore Commerce powered by Commerce Server 8.1

The Sitecore Reference Storefront available on GitHub does not implement wish list capability for Sitecore Commerce powered by Commerce Server (SCpbCS) but does provide it for Sitecore Commerce powered by Microsoft Dynamics (SCpbMD). This means it’s not much work to implement for SCpbCS as all the assets are available, we just need to plug a… Continue reading Wish List Reference For Sitecore Commerce powered by Commerce Server 8.1

Sitecore Commerce–How to add encrypted properties for profiles (SCpbCS 8.1)

I’m using the latest Sitecore Reference Storefront available from Github for this walk through: https://github.com/Sitecore/Reference-Storefront/releases/tag/8.1.478.2 Sitecore Commerce Server supports asymmetric encryption and one-way hashing to enable the encryption of profile properties. One-way hashing is used typically for passwords. Once a string is hashed, we should not be able to get back to the original string… Continue reading Sitecore Commerce–How to add encrypted properties for profiles (SCpbCS 8.1)

Sitecore Commerce powered by Commerce Server 8.1 – Developer Machine Installation Guide

This guide is aimed at complementing the Sitecore Reference Storefront Quick Setup Guide which is primarily used to setup local developer machines and used in our training sessions. It goes through a lot of the pre-setup required. Ensure your computer matches these system requirements: http://commercesdn.sitecore.net/SCpbCS81/SitecoreCommerceConnectGuide/en-us/index.html#Concepts/c_SystemRequirements.html This guide does not cover the installation of SQL Server… Continue reading Sitecore Commerce powered by Commerce Server 8.1 – Developer Machine Installation Guide