Capability

Commerce

Liferay DXP includes robust e-commerce capabilities. Liferay’s commerce capabilities integrate content management, digital asset management, and comprehensive commerce functionalities, empowering you to deliver diverse online shopping experiences.

Use Liferay’s Commerce features to set up a storefront, add and manage products and catalogs, configure multiple channels for sales, configure multiple forms of payment, and much more.

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Catalogs
Catalogs A catalog contains all the information about the products you're selling. Before starting a store, you must create at least one catalog and add products to it. Catalogs are scoped to an...
Configuring a Product Placeholder Image
Configuring a Product Placeholder Image Products in a catalog that do not have an associated product image use a placeholder image until one is configured. The default placeholder image is defined...
Creating a New Catalog
Creating a New Catalog Open the Global Menu (Applications Menu icon) and navigate to Commerce → Catalogs. Navigate to the Catalogs application. Click Add (Add icon) and enter this data: ...
Creating and Managing Products
Creating and Managing Products Learn how you can use the different product types available out-of-the-box with Liferay and enrich the storefront experience for customers. You can leverage built-in...
Using Gross and Net Price Types
Using Gross and Net Price Types With Liferay Commerce, you can use either Gross or Net price types for calculating promotions and discounts. This setting is configured for Price Lists and Channels....
Using Price Modifiers
Using Price Modifiers Price modifiers target the prices set in a price list and modify them based on the criteria configured. Price modifiers can target catalogs, product groups, categories, and...
Using Price Tiers
Using Price Tiers With Liferay Commerce, you can use Price Tiers to offer price reductions based on the quantity of a product ordered. Prices set this way take precedence for associated users when...
Product Management
Product Management With Liferay's product management capabilities, you can manage multiple product catalogs, create products of different types with multiple SKUs, create and manage product...
Configuring Catalog Permissions
Configuring Catalog Permissions Catalog permissions determine which users can see and modify catalogs and their related products. Admin users have these permissions by default, but you can add...
Product Types
Product Types Liferay provides four product types out-of-the-box: Simple, Grouped, Virtual, and Diagram. Simple product: Any physical product for which inventory is tracked. Grouped product: Two...
Creating a Simple Product
Creating a Simple Product A simple product is any physical product for which inventory is tracked. Products are added to a catalog and include a name and description. Products can be further...
Shop by Diagram
Shop by Diagram Subscription With Shop by Diagram you can easily find parts for larger equipment visually through diagrams. This can be an automotive spare part, electronic component, or spares of...
Virtual Product Reference
Virtual Product Reference Configure unique Virtual Product settings in the Virtual sub-tab. Details FieldDescription URLSet the Product' file using a URL. Select FileUse the Select button to...
Configuring Product Visibility Using Account Groups
Configuring Product Visibility Using Account Groups By default, all products are visible in a Catalog. However, users can limit a product's visibility based on a user's association with an Account...
Creating a Virtual Product
Creating a Virtual Product A virtual product is any non-tangible product that customers can download. Examples include videos, electronic publications, warranties, and service contracts. Like other...
Products
Products Liferay provides four product types out-of-the-box: Simple, Grouped, Virtual, and Diagram. Catalogs hold products with a default SKU at creation time. By default, all products are visible...
Creating a New Product Category
Creating a New Product Category Product Categories are used to organize your products. These groupings allow multiple products to be handled as a single unit. For example, a product category could...
Creating Product Bundles
Creating Product Bundles Liferay supports the creation of product bundles using product options. With options, you can define values that link the current product with other SKUs (simple, virtual,...
Creating SKUs for Product Variants
Creating SKUs for Product Variants With Liferay Commerce, you can add multiple SKUs to a Product to represent Product variants. To do this, the Product must have at least one Option with SKU...
Enabling Subscriptions for a Product
Enabling Subscriptions for a Product With Liferay Commerce, you can create and manage subscriptions for Simple, Grouped, and Virtual Products. Examples of subscriptions include magazines, renewable...
Generating Product Descriptions using AI
Generating Product Descriptions using AI Liferay DXP 2024.Q2+/Portal GA120+ You can now use generative AI to add product descriptions. To start using the AI Creator tool, you must add an API key...
Overriding Product Level Information
Overriding Product Level Information Product SKUs in a catalog typically inherit the specifications and configurations from the parent product. You can override certain product configurations or...
Product Configuration Reference
Product Configuration Reference Using a product's configuration page, you can add additional metadata, media, attachments, create product relations, and more. Product Details Configure the...
Product Images
Product Images Product images help to ensure that customers know what they are buying and increase the likelihood of a sale. If you have a product with different SKUs you can upload images for each...
Related Products, Up-Sells, and Cross-Sells
Related Products, Up-Sells, and Cross-Sells You can use product relations to create links between products. After doing so, one product displays other linked products. To add a product relation,...
Defining SKUs as Option Values using a Collection Provider
Defining SKUs as Option Values using a Collection Provider Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA98+ You can specify one or more categories as a collection provider when configuring an option on a...
Managing BOMs
Managing BOMs Subscription Bill of Materials (BOM) diagrams identify component parts belonging to a product. Users can create and annotate BOM diagrams in Liferay Commerce that reference products...
Organizing Your Catalog with Product Categories
Organizing Your Catalog with Product Categories Products can be organized into Categories. These groupings allow multiple products to be grouped and handled collectively. Product categories can be...
Product Attachments
Product Attachments Catalog managers can upload a downloadable document for a product which often provides additional information that is not already in the product's description or specifications....
Specifications
Specifications A specification stores a single piece of product information. This can be the product's dimensions, color, weight, capacity, or any other attribute. These details help customers when...
Units of Measure (UOM)
Units of Measure (UOM) Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA98+ Businesses can have different ways of maintaining and selling their stock. This is commonly known as Units of Measure (UOM). Some of the...
Using Product Options for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions
Using Product Options for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions Creating an Option Template Navigate to Control Panel → Commerce → Products. Go to the Options tab. This displays a list of existing...
Option API Basics
Option API Basics You can manage option templates from the Applications menu or with REST APIs. Call the headless-commerce-admin-catalog services to create and manage options. Adding an Option ...
Product API Basics
Product API Basics You can manage products from the Applications menu, but you can also use Liferay’s REST APIs. Call these services to create and manage products. Adding a Product Then follow...
Using Product Options
Using Product Options Product options provide a convenient and flexible way to customize products. Using options, you can add selectable or editable fields to products sold in your site. Your...
Product Management APIs
Product Management APIs You can invoke the services under headless-commerce-admin-catalog to perform various admin operations related to products. However, if you have a headless storefront, you...
Catalog API Basics
Catalog API Basics You can manage catalogs from the Applications menu or REST APIs. Call the headless-commerce-admin-catalog services to create and manage catalogs. Adding a Catalog Once Liferay...
Currency API Basics
Currency API Basics Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ You can manage currencies from the Applications menu or with REST APIs. Call the headless-commerce-admin-catalog services to create and...
Option Value API Basics
Option Value API Basics You can manage option values from the Options application or with REST APIs. Call the headless-commerce-admin-catalog services to create and manage option values. Adding an...
Specification API Basics
Specification API Basics You can manage product specifications from the Applications menu or with REST APIs. Call the headless-commerce-admin-catalog services to create and manage specifications. ...