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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...

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Developer Guide

Developer Guide 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 must use...

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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...

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Currency API Basics

Currency API Basics Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal 7.4 GA112+ You can manage currencies from the Applications menu or with REST APIs. Call the headless-commerce-admin-catalog services to create and...

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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...

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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. ...

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Accelerators

Accelerators Liferay Commerce Accelerators make building stores and exploring Liferay Commerce fast and easy. For steps on how to build your store from scratch, see Creating Store Content. Stores...

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Introduction to Liferay Commerce

Introduction to Liferay Commerce Welcome to Liferay Commerce! Liferay Commerce is a digital commerce platform built from the ground up to meet the challenging and complex needs of any B2B...

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Store Setup Overview

Store Setup Overview Initial store setup uses the admin account. Read the Liferay Commerce Configuration Overview to familiarize yourself with the Liferay Commerce configuration layout and...

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Store Management

Store Management Learn how to create and manage channels, configure countries and regions, add shipping and payment methods to your store, and more.

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Product API - Creating a Product with Multiple SKUs

Product API - Creating a Product with Multiple SKUs You can create products with multiple active SKUs using the product API or from the Products application. To create such a product, you must...

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Starting a Store

Starting a Store You can use this road map as a starting point to build a storefront using Liferay Commerce. Road Map Store Setup Creating the Storefront Managing Customer Accounts Managing...

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Introduction to the Admin Account

Introduction to the Admin Account The Admin user is created by default in any new installation of Liferay Commerce and has full permissions to modify every facet of a Liferay Commerce instance. The...

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Sites and Site Types

Sites and Site Types Sites Liferay Commerce deployments consist of a hierarchy of Sites, Pages, Widgets, and Accounts. Creating and configuring a site in Liferay Commerce is one of the first steps...

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Using the Minium Accelerator to Jump-Start Your B2B Store

Using the Minium Accelerator to Jump-Start Your B2B Store Minium is a Liferay Commerce Accelerator that quickly and easily sets up a business-to-business (B2B) store designed to meet the needs of a...

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Channels Reference Guide

Channels Reference Guide The Channels application contains various options to manage and configure your channel. To create a channel, see Managing Channels. General The General tab consists of...

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Channels

Channels Channels represent a place where you sell products: a Liferay customer portal, a B2B marketplace, or even back office phone sales. By connecting sales channels to Liferay, sellers can...

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Configuring Countries and Regions

Configuring Countries and Regions By default, Liferay includes over 240 countries, but you can add countries if needed. When adding or editing countries, you can add states, provinces, or other...

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Configuring Payment Methods

Configuring Payment Methods Payments are processed through a payment method. There are three types of payment methods: Offline: Liferay does not process the payment. Online Standard: Liferay...

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Money Orders

Money Orders Liferay Commerce has the option to enable sellers to accept money orders as a form of payment. Once this payment method is activated, buyers will be able to use money orders to...

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PayPal

PayPal To use PayPal as a payment method in your store, you must have a merchant ID and also generate a PayPal client ID and client secret. Visit the PayPal Developer Dashboard for more...

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Configuring Product Visibility Using Channels

Configuring Product Visibility Using Channels When you create a product, it is visible across all channels, but you can limit visibility to specific channels. Consider a multi-brand scenario where...

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Managing Channels

Managing Channels To display products and receive orders, a Liferay instance must have at least one channel. Accelerators like Minium already have a channel set up for you. Adding a New Channel ...

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Authorize.net

Authorize.net This article details how to enable Authorize.Net as a payment method. Authorize.Net is a subsidiary of Visa and a provider of payment gateway services that manages the submission of...

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Managing Payment Methods

Managing Payment Methods Payment methods in Liferay Commerce scoped by channel and store site. If a Liferay Commerce instance has more than one storefront hosted on the same instance,...

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Mercanet

Mercanet This article details how to enable Mercanet as a payment method. Because Mercanet accepts only EUR, the store's primary currency must be EUR. Mercanet Guide Review prerequisites. Set...

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Applying Shipping Method Restrictions

Applying Shipping Method Restrictions Your store may have shipping restrictions to specific countries or regions. This means these countries are not available during the checkout process. These...

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Using the Variable Rate Shipping Method

Using the Variable Rate Shipping Method Variable rate shipping allows shipping costs to be calculated using three factors: weight, order subtotal (cost before shipping, taxes, and discounts), and a...

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Currencies

Currencies Liferay comes with multiple currencies pre-configured for use. If a desired currency is not already included, you can add a new one. See the Currencies Reference on how to enter specific...

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Managing Exchange Rates

Managing Exchange Rates Exchange rates can be manually managed or automatically updated by an online service. To ensure that the store has the most recent exchange rates, administrators can enable...

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Configuring Shipping Methods

Configuring Shipping Methods Liferay supports two shipping methods out-of-the-box, Flat Rate and Variable Rate. Before choosing any shipping method, verify the Measurement Units that the store...

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Measurement Units

Measurement Units Liferay Commerce comes with a number of common measurement units already defined, but if you or your shipping provider use different units, you will need to change the default...

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Shipping Method Reference

Shipping Method Reference Carrier: This shipping method integrates your shipping processes with a shipping company. This ensures the prices you charge your customers closely matches your actual...

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Using the Flat Rate Shipping Method

Using the Flat Rate Shipping Method Buyers can choose a flat rate shipping option to ship any product. By creating multiple flat rate options, you can give customers choices of cost, speed, or...

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Currencies Reference

Currencies Reference Liferay comes with multiple currencies pre-configured for use out-of-the-box. Your store must have a primary currency enabled to start processing orders. To manage currencies,...

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Understanding the Currency Hierarchy

Understanding the Currency Hierarchy With Liferay, you can use different currencies across catalogs, price lists, and channels. Each currency has its own role in the currency hierarchy. The...

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Enabling Guest Checkout

Enabling Guest Checkout You can enable guest checkout on a per-channel basis. Open the Global Menu (Applications Menu icon) and navigate to Commerce → Channels. Select the channel linked to...

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Configuring the Commerce Notification Queue

Configuring the Commerce Notification Queue When channel events trigger notifications, Commerce logs them in the channel's Notification Queue tab with the Unsent status. By default, Liferay checks...

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Account Management

Account Management Available Liferay 7.3 and Below In Liferay, accounts store customer information, such as billing and shipping addresses, order details, and VAT number. Once created, accounts...

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Developer Guide

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Channel API Basics

Channel API Basics You can manage channels from the Applications menu or with REST APIs. Call the headless-commerce-admin-channel services to create and manage channels. Adding a Channel Once...

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Guest Checkout

Guest Checkout Guest checkout allows users to submit orders without a registered account on the site. You can enable guest checkout on a per-channel basis. See Enabling Guest Checkout to learn...

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Liferay Commerce Configuration Overview

Liferay Commerce Configuration Overview You can find options to configure Commerce from the Global Menu. Access Commerce via the Global Application menu. Open the Global Menu (Global Menu) and go...

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Locale Options

Locale Options Liferay Commerce can be configured to work in different regions and languages. See the following articles to learn how to configure a store for regional variances in language,...

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Sending Emails

Sending Emails You can configure Liferay to send email notifications for different events that happen in your store. For example, you may want to send updates to the order manager or another person...

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Notification Template Variables Reference Guide

Notification Template Variables Reference Guide When creating notification templates, you can use variables to populate email fields dynamically with data from the triggering event. Notification...

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Using Notification Templates

Using Notification Templates Email notifications are sent automatically to users based on events in the store. To send them, you must first create a Notification Template. Notification templates...

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Users and Accounts

Users and Accounts Liferay Commerce provides specialized roles out of the box to satisfy e-commerce needs. These roles are included alongside the standard DXP roles and define basic user profiles...

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Adding Organizations to Accounts

Adding Organizations to Accounts Organizations can be added to an Account to simplify the management and administration of accounts. To learn more about using Organizations with Accounts see Using...

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Creating a New Account

Creating a New Account There are two ways to create an account: 1) using the Account Management widget and 2) through the Control Panel. Access to the Control Panel is typically restricted to those...

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Using Organizations to Create a Sales Network

Using Organizations to Create a Sales Network The organizational structure of B2B sales networks can be mirrored in Liferay Commerce using the Organizations feature. Organizations are hierarchical...

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Roles and Permissions

Roles and Permissions The permissions assigned to a user role determine the Liferay applications and resources they can access and use. You can scope each role to an instance, Site, Organization,...

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Commerce Roles Reference

Commerce Roles Reference Liferay includes four roles out-of-the-box for Commerce: account administrator, account member, buyer, and order manager. You can modify these roles or create additional...

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Account Roles

Account Roles Account roles are sets of permissions that grant users specific abilities within an Account context. These roles can be used to delegate Account responsibilities, or paired with...

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Adding Addresses to an Account

Adding Addresses to an Account This article documents how to update an account's billing and shipping addresses using either the Account Management widget or the Control Panel. Using the Account...

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Creating a New Account Group

Creating a New Account Group Account Groups allow accounts to be grouped based on business criteria, such as grouping accounts by geographic region (US West Coast, the Midwest, and the South)....

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Inviting Users to an Account

Inviting Users to an Account This article documents how to invite users to an account. Corporate accounts can have more than one user assigned to handle various aspects of a transaction. There are...

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Order Management Permissions

Order Management Permissions With Liferay Commerce, you can use permissions to control access to Order Management applications and resources in the Commerce tab of the Global Menu (Global Menu). ...

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Inventory Management Permissions

Inventory Management Permissions With Liferay Commerce, you can use permissions to control access to Inventory Management applications and resources in the Commerce tab of the Global Menu (Global...

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Product Management Permissions

Product Management Permissions With Liferay Commerce, you can use permissions to control access to Product Management applications and resources in the Commerce tab of the Global Menu (Global...

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