Capability

Sites

Liferay sites are customizable spaces for building personalized digital experiences. Each site includes applications for creating content, designing pages, and more. With these features, you can bring your custom solutions to life, whether intranets, public sites, customer portals, or e-commerce storefronts. In fact, you can leverage Liferay's multi-site capabilities to create multiple such sites in the same Liferay instance.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Capability
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...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:44 AM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Installation and Upgrades
Installation and Upgrades Liferay DXP 7.3 and Below Liferay Commerce is a digital commerce platform built on Liferay DXP. See the prerequisites and available options for installing, deploying, and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Installing Commerce 2.1 and Below
Installing Commerce 2.1 and Below Previous releases of Liferay Commerce required additional installation steps that are no longer necessary on Commerce 3.x and above. Prerequisites Before...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 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 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
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
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
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
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
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: Jun 27, 2025 6:39 PM
Creating a Promotion
Creating a Promotion The example below creates a promotion that reduces the price of all products in the catalog by 20% on the 4th of July. All accounts, account groups, channels, and order types...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Introduction to Product Groups
Introduction to Product Groups Product groups are static groups of products you can use for targeted discounts or pricing. Product groups are ideal in two scenarios: If you have products that...
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
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
Understanding Recommendation Types
Understanding Recommendation Types Subscription TypeIncludes Product DataIncludes Order DataPersonalizedContext AwareFrequencyDescription Content-Based Product Recommendations[✔] [✔] Recommends...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Using Discount Levels
Using Discount Levels You can create discount levels to apply multiple discounts to products and orders. Commerce applies these discounts consecutively according to their rank. For example, if you...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Replacement Products
Replacement Products Products undergo a life cycle after which they reach end-of-life (EOL). Some products are discontinued completely while others can have a replacement, to bring newer and better...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Promotions Reference
Promotions Reference FieldDescription NameName of the promotion CatalogCatalog attached to the promotion. The promotion does not apply to products outside the selected Catalog. CurrencyCurrency...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Using the Base Promotion List
Using the Base Promotion List When you create a new catalog, a new Base Promotion List is created automatically. You cannot control the eligibility or add any price modifiers for a base promotion...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Setting a Product's Base Price
Setting a Product's Base Price When you create an SKU, it doesn't have a base price. A price entry for the SKU is created automatically in the catalog's base price list, but you must change it to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Setting a Product's Base Price for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions
Setting a Product's Base Price for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions When you create an SKU, it doesn't have a base price. A price entry for the SKU is created automatically in the catalog's base...
Published Date: May 17, 2025 3:54 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Using Price Tiers for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions
Using Price Tiers for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions 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...
Published Date: May 17, 2025 3:54 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Configuring a Product Placeholder Image for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions
Configuring a Product Placeholder Image for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions Products in a catalog that do not have an associated product image use a placeholder image until one is configured. The...
Published Date: Jun 27, 2025 6:41 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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: ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Creating a Grouped Product for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions
Creating a Grouped Product for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions A grouped product consists of two or more products from a catalog that are sold together as a pre-defined set, either for customer...
Published Date: Jun 27, 2025 6:41 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Creating a Simple Product for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions
Creating a Simple Product for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions A simple product is any physical product for which inventory is tracked. Products are added to a catalog and include a name and...
Published Date: Jun 27, 2025 6:41 PM
Creating a Grouped Product
Creating a Grouped Product A grouped product consists of two or more products from a catalog that are sold together as a pre-defined set, either for customer convenience or to offer a special...
Published Date: Jun 27, 2025 6:41 PM
Creating a Virtual Product for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions
Creating a Virtual Product for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions A virtual product is any non-tangible product that customers can download. Examples include videos, electronic publications,...
Published Date: Jun 27, 2025 6:41 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Configuring Product Visibility Using Account Groups for Commerce 2.0 and Earlier Versions
Configuring Product Visibility Using Account Groups for Commerce 2.0 and Earlier Versions By default, all products are visible in a Catalog. However, users can limit a product's visibility based on...
Published Date: Jun 27, 2025 6:41 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Creating a New Product Category for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions
Creating a New Product Category for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions Product Categories are used to organize your products. These groupings allow multiple products to be handled as a single unit....
Published Date: Jun 27, 2025 6:41 PM
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,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:46 PM
Organizing Your Catalog with Product Categories for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions
Organizing Your Catalog with Product Categories for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions Products can be organized into Categories. These groupings allow multiple products to be grouped and handled...
Published Date: Jun 27, 2025 6:42 PM
Overriding Product Level Information for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions
Overriding Product Level Information for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions Product SKUs in a catalog typically inherit the specifications and configurations from the parent product. You can...
Published Date: Jun 27, 2025 6:42 PM
Managing BOMs for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions
Managing BOMs for Commerce 2.1 and Earlier Versions Subscription Bill of Materials (BOM) diagrams identify component parts belonging to a product. Users can create and annotate BOM diagrams in...
Published Date: Jun 27, 2025 6:42 PM