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Pre-requisite

To set up a store for a business, you need URL and credentials to access the Infosys Equinox Commerce environment (contact equinox_sales@infosys.com). For documents, you need Developer Portal access. Contact the Developer Portal Team at devportal@infosysequinox.com.

Overview

This page covers how to set up a store for a business. It includes the flow of key microservices such as creating a business, creating a store under the business, configuring the microservice collections needed for the store, importing catalog, pricing, merchandising, and inventory data, reindexing the imported data, reviewing the reindexed data via SOLR admin, SFO APIs, and configuring storefront details to view the configured store. For the detailed flow, see the following illustration: Note: For the detailed steps, refer to Configuring for a Business. Configuring for a Business  To set up a business and configure microservice(s), 

  1. Navigate to https://<<EnvironmentName>>.skavacommerce.com/admin/foundation/login.
  2. Click the Add a Business button to create a business.
    Note: This will be done internally by the user who has Super Admin credentials. 
  3. In the Available Microservices tab, enable the microservices applicable for the business.
  4. Invite team members, assign role(s), and associate members to the store.
    Note: The super admin will invite a business admin. The business admin can invite the other users. 
  5. In the left navigation panel, click Stores to create a store.
    Note:
    • Enable the toggle Auto-associate collections to automatically create the collections for the selected microservices and to associate the collections with the store. Otherwise, you need to manually create the collections and associate the collections with the store 
    • Catalog, Pricing, Merchandising, Feeds, and Search, Accounts (for B2B), and Customers (for B2B) microservices are mandatory services to set up and view the catalog data and categories in the storefront.  
    • Inventory, Customers, Cart and Checkout, Orders, Address, Payment, Tax, and Shipping microservices are needed for a successful checkout flow. 
    • Select multiple Ship To Regions to configure the store for multiple shipping regions. 
  6. Configure the microservice collection properties based on the business needs.
  7. If required, go to the All Microservices page to perform the following operations if you are creating the collections manually:
  8. Navigate to the catalog admin console to: Note: 
  9. Navigate to the pricing admin console to: Note 
  10. Navigate to the merchandising admin console to:
  11. In the Foundation Admin console’s Store Overview (Store Ops) page, run full indexing feeds to: Note:  For partial update on Catalog and Pricing, run the Delta Indexing feed (Delta Indexing – Catalog only and Delta Indexing – Pricing only) to reindex the changes. 
  12. Verify the indexed data in SOLR Admin and SFO Swagger. 
  13. Configure the storefront site by updating the store ID in the link given below: https://<<EnvironmentName>>.skavacommerce.com/configs; for example, https://cloud.skavacommerce.com/configs 
  14. Verify the indexed data in the storefront site: https://<<EnvironmentName>>.skavacommerce.com
    Note:
    • After successfully reindexing catalog, pricing, and merchandising data, you can find the changes in the storefront site. 
    • If data is not appearing in the storefront site, clear the browser cache data. 
  15. To set up inventory, import the bin items to the default bin using Inventory Import feed. 
  16. Based on the business need, configure the following:
  17. Launch the storefront site: https://<<EnvironmentName>>.skavacommerce.com  Note:
    • If data is not appearing in the storefront site, clear the browser cache data.
    • A single excel file can be used to import data on catalog, pricing, merchandising and inventory details on to the respective admin consoles.
    • In the above excel file, to import the pricing data successfully, you need to create a custom price “sale price” and map with the pricelist.
    • Important: The tab names and column names in each of the tabs in the download excel template or the above sample excel sheet is case-sensitive and SHOULD NOT be altered.  

Clearing Browser Cache Data

TIP: Clearing the Browser Cache Data for Storefront: You need to clear the browser cache in any admin UI page if data is not appearing in the storefront site. To clear the browser cache data, 

  1. Right-click and select Inspect Element. 
  2. Select Application and select Cookies.
  3. Right-click on the URL and click Clear to clear the cache:

 
Revision History
2022-10-10 | AN – Page created and content uploaded.