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Defining SKUs as Option Values using a Collection Provider

Defining SKUs as Option Values using a Collection Provider Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal 7.4 GA98+ You can specify one or more categories as a collection provider when configuring an option on a...

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Managing BOMs

Managing BOMs Subscription Required Bill of Materials (BOM) diagrams identify component parts belonging to a product. Users can create and annotate BOM diagrams in Liferay Commerce that reference...

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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...

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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....

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Units of Measure (UOM)

Units of Measure (UOM) Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal 7.4 GA98+ Businesses can have different ways of maintaining and selling their stock. This is commonly known as Units of Measure (UOM). Some of...

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Commerce 2.1 and below: Using Product Options

Commerce 2.1 and below: Using Product Options Creating an Option Template Navigate to Control Panel → Commerce → Products. Go to the Options tab. This displays a list of existing templates on...

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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...

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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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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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Accelerators

Accelerators Accelerators make building stores and exploring Liferay fast and easy. To build your store from scratch, see Creating Store Content. Stores in Liferay are comprised of an interrelated...

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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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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 Accelerator that quickly sets up a business-to-business (B2B) store designed to meet the needs of a manufacturer. It...

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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 Liferay supports Authorize.Net as a payment method. Authorize.Net is a subsidiary of Visa and a provider of payment gateway services. Prerequisites Before configuring your store to...

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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 Liferay supports Mercanet as a payment method out-of-the-box. Since Mercanet accepts only EUR, the store's primary currency must be EUR. Prerequisites Generate credentials Set EUR as...

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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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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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Settings Permissions

Settings Permissions With Liferay Commerce, you can use permissions to control access to Settings applications in the Commerce tab of the Global Menu (Global Menu). Control access to Settings...

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Pricing Permissions

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

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Store Management Permissions

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

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Setting Up Warehouses

Setting Up Warehouses Warehouses represent physical locations of product inventory. To activate a warehouse, you must set its geolocation. You can use a single warehouse to serve multiple channels...

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Guest Checkout

Guest Checkout You can use guest checkout to submit orders without an account on the site. You can enable guest checkout on a per-channel basis. See Enabling Guest Checkout to learn more. After...

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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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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...

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Product Configurations

Product Configurations Liferay DXP 2025.Q1+/GA132+ Product Configurations are templates for managing product configuration and ability in one place. They help you make bulk changes to multiple...

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Implementing a Custom Order Rule

Implementing a Custom Order Rule You can configure order rules in Liferay for orders that meet a specific condition. The Minimum Order Amount rule is available out-of-the-box. It prevents checkout...

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Implementing a Custom Order Status

Implementing a Custom Order Status You can add a custom order status by implementing the CommerceOrderStatus interface. The Commerce Order Engine provides a standard order flow out-of-the-box, but...

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Adding a New Discount Rule Type

Adding a New Discount Rule Type You can add a new discount rule type by implementing two interfaces: CommerceDiscountRuleType and CommerceDiscountRuleTypeJSPContributor. Discount rule types define...

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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 ...

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Order Management

Order Management Use Liferay's order management capabilities to process orders of multiple types from different channels, set up workflows, create shipments for orders, and more.

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Multishipping

Multishipping Liferay DXP 2025.Q1+/GA132+ [Beta Feature](https://learn.liferay.com/web/guest/w/dxp/system-administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags#beta-feature-flags) With multishipping,...

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Implementing a Custom Order Validator

Implementing a Custom Order Validator This tutorial explains how to add a custom order validator by implementing the CommerceOrderValidator interface. An order validator is a class that validates...

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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 ...

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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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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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Returns Page

Returns Page Liferay DXP 2024.Q4+/GA129+ The returns page contains a list of all return requests placed by the customer. Select a return request to view the status of the request and its...

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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,...

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Using the Products Limit Rule

Using the Products Limit Rule Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ You may want to prevent customers from purchasing products from a specific product group. For instance, a machines manufacturer may...

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