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.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Shipments
Shipments You can create Shipments when an order is in the processing stage. A single shipment may contain multiple orders, but the same account must create all the orders contained in the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Creating a Shipment
Creating a Shipment Creating a shipment is integrated with the Orders menu. You can also manage all shipments in the Shipments menu once an order is in the Processing phase. Creating a New...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Shipment Life Cycle Overview
Shipment Life Cycle Overview There are four stages for a shipment. Processing Ready to Ship Shipped Delivered Starting with Liferay DXP 7.4 U30/GA30, each shipment has an external reference...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Creating a Shipment for Commerce 2.0 and Earlier Versions
Creating a Shipment for Commerce 2.0 and Earlier Versions Creating a shipment is integrated with the Orders menu. You can also manage all shipments in the Shipments menu once an order is in the...
Published Date: May 15, 2025 4:00 PM
Shipments Management Reference Guide
Shipments Management Reference Guide To manage shipments, open the Global Menu (Applications Menu icon) and navigate to Commerce → Shipments. Overview of the shipments page. FieldDescription...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Commerce APIs
Commerce APIs You can use headless APIs to interface with Liferay Commerce features, including products, catalogs, and price lists. Here are resources to help you understand and integrate these...
Published Date: Jul 3, 2025 8:32 PM
Warehouse API Basics
Warehouse API Basics You can manage warehouses from the Applications menu or REST APIs. Call the headless-commerce-admin-inventory services to create and manage warehouses. Adding a Warehouse ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Inventory Management APIs
Inventory Management APIs Here is a comprehensive resource for understanding and leveraging Liferay’s inventory management APIs.
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Order API Basics
Order API Basics You can manage orders from the Applications menu or with REST APIs. Call the headless-admin-commerce-order services to create and manage orders. Adding an Order Once Liferay is...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Order Type API Basics
Order Type API Basics You can manage order types from the Applications menu or with REST APIs. Use the /order-types endpoint from headless-admin-commerce-order to create and manage order types. ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Order Management APIs
Order Management APIs Here is a comprehensive resource for understanding and leveraging Liferay’s order management APIs.
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Discount API Basics
Discount API Basics You can manage discounts from the Applications menu or with REST APIs. Call the headless-admin-commerce-pricing services to create and manage discounts. Adding a Discount Once...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Price List API Basics
Price List API Basics You can manage price lists from the Applications menu or with REST APIs. Call the headless-admin-commerce-pricing services to create and manage price lists. Adding a Price...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Pricing APIs
Pricing APIs Use the Price List and Discount APIs to manage product pricing and discounts in Liferay Commerce programmatically. Below are basic usage examples, including common endpoints and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Term API Basics
Term API Basics You can manage terms and conditions from the Applications menu or with REST APIs. Use the /terms endpoint from headless-admin-commerce-order to create and manage terms and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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 ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Store Management Basics
Store Management Basics Here is a comprehensive resource for understanding and leveraging Liferay’s Channel API basics.
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:45 AM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:47 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Product Delivery API Basics
Product Delivery API Basics Product API Basics covers the admin API used for creating and managing products. To display product data in your storefront, you must use the Product Delivery API. Call...
Published Date: Nov 16, 2024 3:30 PM
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. ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Managing Subscriptions for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions
Managing Subscriptions for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions For Commerce 2.1 and below, orders and subscriptions appear in the Control Panel. Open the Control Panel and navigate to Commerce →...
Published Date: Jun 27, 2025 6:37 PM
Managing Subscriptions
Managing Subscriptions In Liferay, you can manage orders and subscriptions under the Global Applications menu. Open the Global Applications (Applications Menu icon) menu and navigate to Commerce...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Supplier Role
Supplier Role Liferay DXP 7.4 U84+/GA84+ To enable suppliers to manage their own catalogs and channels, you must add at least one user with the Account Supplier role to a supplier account. These...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Subscription Administration Reference Guide
Subscription Administration Reference Guide Subscriptions are managed in the Subscriptions menu in the Global Menu. This article describes the various functions and fields available in the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Supplier Account
Supplier Account Liferay DXP 7.4 U84+/GA84+ The Supplier account type has all the features of Liferay accounts: adding and managing addresses, users, organizations, account groups, and roles....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Terms and Conditions
Terms and Conditions Liferay supports adding Terms and Conditions to an order through Payment and Delivery Terms. These are conditions upon which the buyer and seller both must agree. Payment Terms...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Subscription Administration Reference Guide for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions
Subscription Administration Reference Guide for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions Subscriptions are managed in the Subscriptions menu in the Control Panel. Navigate to the Control Panel → Commerce...
Published Date: Jun 27, 2025 6:37 PM
Suppliers
Suppliers Liferay DXP 7.4 U84+/GA84+ Using Liferay's out-of-the-box supplier account type, you can cater to suppliers and their specific needs. Additionally, you can use the out-of-the-box...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Subscriptions
Subscriptions Subscriptions are recurring orders managed differently from regular orders. All orders, including subscriptions, are accepted and processed in the Orders Menu. However, after...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Adding Reasons for Refunds
Adding Reasons for Refunds While processing a refund, it is mandatory to select a reason to complete the transaction. Open the Global Menu (Global Menu) and navigate to Control Panel → System...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Adding Products to a Price List for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions
Adding Products to a Price List for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions Once you have a price list created, you can add products to it. This article describes two ways to add products to a price...
Published Date: May 17, 2025 3:52 PM
Refunds
Refunds Liferay's new Payments application supports the creation of refunds for online payments. Once processed, the refund goes back to the original payment method. There are two main steps...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Payment and Delivery Terms
Payment and Delivery Terms Liferay DXP 7.4 U16+/GA16+ Payment Terms Payment Terms govern the terms of a transaction between a buyer and seller. You can specify different Payment Terms for...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Adding Products to a Price List
Adding Products to a Price List Once you've created a price list, create price entries to add product SKUs to it. These entries are used when determining a product's unit price and override an...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Payment Management
Payment Management Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Using Liferay's new payment management application you can view online payments in detail and create refunds on them. To access this...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Payments Reference
Payments Reference The Payments application displays the following information about each payment entry. FieldDescription IDID of the payment or refund TypeSpecifies whether it is a payment or a...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Pricing
Pricing Liferay provides a robust pricing system to fine-tune product prices. You can define multiple price entries for a single product SKU and determine which accounts, account groups, and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Promoting Products
Promoting Products There are several ways to promote your products in Liferay. To start off, you can create a discount that offers incentives to customers. You can also create promotions that show...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Creating a Discount
Creating a Discount Follow the steps below to create a discount by selecting the discount type, the target customers, and setting the discount rates. Once the discount has been created, specify...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Introduction to Discounts
Introduction to Discounts Discounts are price reductions you can apply to products and orders to offer incentives to customers. When creating a discount, you determine whether to reduce the set...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Product Recommendations
Product Recommendations Subscription Liferay supports both content- and user-based product recommendations. You can display these using Product and Order data from your Liferay instance. There...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Introduction to Promotions
Introduction to Promotions You can create Promotions in Liferay to offer promotional pricing to all customers or a set of customers. A promotion shows the difference between a product's list price...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Setting Rates for Tax Calculations
Setting Rates for Tax Calculations Define tax rates in Liferay Commerce using configurable tax engines and assign them to tax categories. You can then apply tax rates to channel products and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Setting Rates for Tax Calculations for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions
Setting Rates for Tax Calculations for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions Define tax rates in Liferay Commerce using configurable tax engines and assign them to tax categories. You can then apply...
Published Date: May 3, 2025 4:04 PM
Creating a Price List for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions
Creating a Price List for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions You can create price lists to store SKU price entries that target specific accounts, channels, and order types. They're used when...
Published Date: May 17, 2025 3:53 PM
Managing Product Prices in Multiple Currencies
Managing Product Prices in Multiple Currencies Liferay DXP 2025.Q2+ Currently, this feature is behind a release feature flag (LPD-34908). The examples in this article use the Commerce Classic...
Published Date: May 17, 2025 3:53 PM
Creating Tax Categories
Creating Tax Categories Liferay Commerce uses tax categories to store and apply tax rates to channel products and shipping costs. Once a tax category is created, you can use tax calculation engines...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Pricing Engine Overview
Pricing Engine Overview Catalogs contain products, and each catalog has its own default base price list and base promotion list. These lists store base price entries for all product SKUs in the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Setting Rates for Tax Calculations for Commerce 2.0 and Earlier Versions
Setting Rates for Tax Calculations for Commerce 2.0 and Earlier Versions Define tax rates in Liferay Commerce using configurable tax engines and assign them to tax categories. You can then apply...
Published Date: May 3, 2025 4:04 PM
Creating a Price List
Creating a Price List You can create price lists to store SKU price entries that target specific accounts, channels, and order types. They're used when determining a product's unit price and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Pricing Configuration Reference
Pricing Configuration Reference You can change the default discovery logic and other parameters of the pricing engine through system settings. To access these settings, open the Global Menu...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Creating Tax Categories for Commerce 2.0 and Earlier Versions
Creating Tax Categories for Commerce 2.0 and Earlier Versions Liferay Commerce uses tax categories to store and apply tax rates to channel products and shipping costs. Once a tax category is...
Published Date: May 3, 2025 4:04 PM
Applying Tax Rates
Applying Tax Rates After adding tax rates to a Tax Category, you can apply them to Channel Products and shipping costs by assigning the Tax Category. Each applicable tax rate is calculated...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Configuring Taxes
Configuring Taxes Liferay Commerce provides flexible tools to manage taxes across different Products, Channels, and shipping configurations. You can define Tax Categories to group tax rates and use...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM