Infosys Equinox Commerce 8.21.6 introduces enhanced preview and publish capabilities in Merchandiser Admin, including role‑based approval insights; clearly separated Live, Draft, and Scheduled publish tabs; future‑dated storefront preview; reference product visibility; version history with rollback support; and product cloning to accelerate merchandising operations.

 

This release also introduces Quote and Invoice capabilities, enabling end‑to‑end quote creation, management, and conversion to invoices, improving B2B sales workflows, order‑to‑cash efficiency, and post‑order billing experiences.

 

Additionally, the release addresses over 1,300 open‑source vulnerabilities across platform services, strengthening overall security posture, compliance, and platform stability.

Preview and Publish

API Changes

Catalog Service

• Submit to Approval for Draft Products and SKUs: Draft products and SKUs now support a publishStatus = SUBMITTED flag to enable a Submit-to-Approval workflow before publishing.
• Publish API – Scheduled vs Immediate: The Catalog publish API now returns a project node with status APPROVED for immediate publishing and SCHEDULED with startTime for scheduled publishing.
• Product and SKU Schedule Lookup Update: Product and SKU schedule APIs now derive upcoming schedule times from entries in SCHEDULED state to improve accuracy of future schedules.

Merchandising Service

• Submit to Approval for Categories and Navigations: Draft categories, navigations and milestones now support approval states with publishStatus = SUBMITTED and new statuses such as ACTIVE_SUBMITTED or INACTIVE_SUBMITTED.
• Navigation Schedule Lookup API: Introduced a new API to retrieve upcoming scheduled publish dates for a navigation, including the corresponding hex project IDs.
• Publish API – Scheduled Project Handling: Merchandise publish now creates SCHEDULED hex projects for future-dated publishes and APPROVED projects for immediate publishes, aligning project metadata with go-live behavior.

Feed Job Service

• Enable Catalog Approval Feed API: This new API triggers catalog approval jobs to move items from SCHEDULED to APPROVED status automatically.

Search Service

• Preview Time Support: Search APIs now honor a previewTime parameter or cookie to return category and product results as of a future timestamp, using scheduled catalog and merchandising documents.
• Index Partitioning for Draft/Scheduled: Search indices now partition live, draft, and scheduled documents using index_key_projectId and effective time fields to support preview and scheduling use cases.

Storefront Orchestration Services

• Draft Preview Behavior: The storefront preview site now automatically requests draft content (via an internal header) when no preview time is specified, enabling draft PLP, PDP, Search and Top Category views.
• Future-Dated Preview: When a previewTime cookie is present, storefront APIs now render PLP, PDP, Search and Top Category pages using documents effective at that future timestamp.

Admin Orchestration Services

• In Get all Products and Get all SKUs APIs, we introduced the following parameters: 
  • “x-show-draft” – Indicates whether the item has any draft version.
  • “x-override-default” – Overrides the default response with the specified project response.
• Publish Draft Milestones to Default API: Publishes categories, navigation and milestones to the default project.

Functional Changes

Merchandiser Admin: Preview & Publish

Approval Status Visibility

Role‑based insight cards are now available in Merchandiser Admin, helping editors and approvers easily track items that require action. Editors (ROLE_CATALOG_EDITOR, ROLE_PRICE_EDITOR, and ROLE_MERCHANDISE_EDITOR) and approvers (admin users) can view real‑time counts of
Pending Submission for Approval and Pending Approver Action records across Products, SKUs, and Categories directly on the Search Product page.

Each insight card includes View Details links that navigate users to the corresponding Draft or Submitted lists, allowing quick access to filtered records needing attention. The same capabilities are also available from the Publish dropdown in the Merchandiser header for Products & SKUs, providing continuous visibility and faster navigation to draft and submitted records from anywhere in Merchandiser Admin.

These features are available when the enablePreview store property is set to true.

Future‑Dated Storefront Preview

Added a Preview dropdown to the Merchandiser Admin header across Product, SKU, Category, and Unpublished pages to quickly open the storefront preview. This enhancement allows merchandisers and administrators to quickly validate how items appear on the storefront without leaving the admin experience.

Configuration Details:

The Preview feature is configurable through store properties:

• enablePreview: This property controls the visibility of Preview features in the Merchandiser Admin header.
  • Set to true to enable the Preview functionality.
  • Set to false to hide the Preview functionality. The existing Merchandiser Admin workflow remains unchanged.
• previewSiteURL: Specifies the base URL of the preview storefront.
  Note: Preview URL PDP format: <previewSiteURL>/product/{productId}

Live, Draft, and Scheduled Publish Tabs for Products, SKUs, and Categories

Centralized Draft and Publishing Workflow

• Merchandisers can now manage Product, SKU, and Category updates using dedicated Live, Draft, and Scheduled Publish tabs.
• Changes can be initiated from any tab and saved using Save as Draft.
• All draft changes are automatically consolidated in the Draft tab, providing a centralized view of pending updates across Products, SKUs, and Categories.

Improved Visibility and Indicators

• Saved searches are supported for Live items only across Product, SKU, and Category lists.
• Added an amber draft indicator on Live Categories that contain draft-only metadata changes.
• Introduced a new Draft hierarchy status chip in the Draft tab:
  • Changes made in Hierarchy
  • No Changes made in Hierarchy
    This allows users to quickly confirm whether the Draft hierarchy differs from the Live version.
• Added a confirmation dialog when editing a product in Live tab that already has a draft version to prevent accidental overrides and guide users to the correct draft version.
• Displayed an inline note next to Variants clarifying that price and inventory updates affect the live version only and that future price changes should be managed via Schedule Price.

Category Creation and Draft Experience

• In the Categories tab, the Create Category drawer now displays “Save as Draft” instead of “Add Details”.
• Newly created categories are added directly to the Draft project.
• After saving hierarchy or category changes using Save as Draft, the console automatically switches to the Draft tab, enabling editors to continue working within the draft context.

Draft Review and Submission

Within the Draft tab, Merchandise Editors, Admin users, and Business Admin users can:

• Review all proposed changes in a single, centralized view
• Make additional edits as required
• Submit changes for approval directly from listing and detail pages using the new Submit to Approval action

Approval and Publishing Workflow

Approvers can review and manage submissions using dedicated insight actions from the Search Product page:

• Pending Submission for Approval: Provides a Draft Version view of items awaiting approval
• Pending Approver Action: Provides an Unpublish Version view, enabling approvers to publish immediately or schedule changes for a later date

After review and approval by Admin or Business Admin users, changes can be:

• Published immediately to the Live environment, or
• Scheduled to go live at a specific future date and time (Ex: upto one month from the current date) using Scheduled Publish
  • The maximum scheduling window is configurable via the store property schedulePublishMaxMonths. The value must be numeric. The default value is “1”.

Bulk Operations

• Bulk Delete: Bulk-delete draft products and SKUs from the Draft Records view to quickly remove test or outdated items.
• Individual and Bulk Operations: Merchandisers can now manage products, SKUs, and categories at individual and bulk levels from the Draft and Submitted listing page:

• • Select up to 50 records to submit for approval, publish immediately, or schedule for a future date.
  • Submit individual draft records for approval directly from the Draft listing page.
  • Publish or schedule approved records directly from the Submitted listing page. 

Configuration Details:

• To enable this feature, configure the store property enablePreview with the value true.

Scheduled Publish Timeline

Merchandising Admin now provides a unified scheduled publish timeline across the Product, SKU, and Category pages and also view scheduled records via Publish menu. When a draft record is scheduled for a future date, it appears on the Scheduled Publish tab in a one-month, chronological timeline view, with times displayed in the store time zone and the nearest upcoming date automatically selected. The Schedule Publish uses 5‑minute time slots and always displays the store time zone to ensure accurately timed launches.

Each timeline marker represents a scheduled publish. Selecting a marker filters the records for that date without reloading the page. When more than two records fall within a one-day interval, they are grouped into a single marker with a record count. Color-coded dots indicate status: blue for a single record, green for the selected record, and orange for grouped records.

Zoom and horizontal scroll controls allow switching between date and time-slot views. The Publish menu displays up to three upcoming records, with a View More link for the full list. All timeline actions apply consistently across all supported tabs.

Reference Products Visibility

Merchandisers can now view reference products directly within Product, SKU Kit, Fixed Kit, and SKU detail pages. The new Reference Products section provides visibility into products and SKUs associated with bundles, fixed bundles, collections, and SKU kits—clearly distinguishing mandatory and optional components. Each reference item displays the product ID, name, and image, making it easier to understand product relationships and manage complex assortments.

Product/SKU Version History, Compare & Rollback

A Version History card has been added to the product and SKU details page, visible when the enablePreview store property is set to true. Allows users to view, compare a particular version with live, and roll back up to the last 10 versions of a product or SKU, with a “View All” option for additional version history.

• Compare to Live: Compares the selected draft version against the current live data. Field-level differences are highlighted for quick review.
• Rollback: Allows to roll back a selected version to create a new draft, which you can then edit before publishing.

Price Facet–Based Discount Calculation for Special Products

A Calculate Discount action button is available on the product details page for Bundle, Fixed Bundle, SKU Kit, Fixed Kit, and Collection product types. Selecting the button opens the Calculate Discount panel, allowing admin users to enter the discount percentage and view the discounted value for each price facet. To enable this feature, configure the store property productsExtension with the node showDiscountCalculation to true and configure the node discountAttributeMapping with the applicable price facets and attribute IDs.

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Clone Products and SKUs

Merchandisers can now duplicate Products and SKUs directly from detail pages across the Live, Draft, and Scheduled Publish tabs using the Duplicate Item action. The “Duplicate Item” drawer allows users to define a new Product or SKU ID and update the item name.

Cloned items retain existing content such as attributes, categories, relationships, and locale data. For a cloned SKU, pricing and inventory are excluded, allowing merchandisers to configure item‑specific commercial details independently. All cloned items are created in Draft and remain fully editable after creation.

Configuration Details:

To enable the Duplicate Item action, configure the store property productsExtension with the node enableDuplicateItem set to true.

Promotions Future Date Preview

Marketing manager can preview the storefront as it will appear on a future date, enabling early validation of upcoming promotions before they go live. This capability allows teams to verify promotion data for Products or SKUs across key storefront views, including PLP, PDP, cart, and checkout, helping ensure accurate pricing, discount application, and smoother promotion launches.

Quote Management for B2B

API Changes

Cart Service

Functional Changes

Quote Management is now available across Ultra Admin and the Frontend Accelerator (Storefront). This feature enables an end‑to‑end, governed quote lifecycle with built‑in collaboration and visibility for Buyers, Seller Representatives, and Customer Service Representatives (CSRs).

Buyer Capabilities (Buyer Users and Buyer Admins)

• Discover and track quotes: View, search, filter, and open quotes from a centralized dashboard or listing.

• Review transparent pricing: View item‑level pricing, discounts, and a quote summary that includes an Other Charges breakdown.

• Perform governed actions (Buyer Admin): Approve or cancel quotes and RFQs based on configured approval rules. Edit RFQ form details in edit mode when corrections are required.

• Understand quote changes: View quote version history, select a version, and compare versions to see what changed.

• Collaborate in context: Add comments directly on quotes. Use @mentions, #tags, and product references to facilitate discussions.

• Track quote lifecycle status: Receive notifications when a quote is converted to an order. Expired quotes automatically become inactive.

Seller Representative Capabilities