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Elastic Path recognized by Gartner as a Visionary in the 2022 Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce.
October - December 2022 Updates
Elastic Path Commerce Cloud
The latest feature innovations in Elastic Path Commerce Cloud.
Create Differentiated Promotion Strategies
Merchandisers now have the ability to dynamically include or exclude products in a promotion based on a specific attribute such as color, size, or brand. You simply add your preferred attributes in Commerce Manager without custom dev or time-consuming manual workarounds.
Reduce Time to Update Products
EP PXM gives merchandisers the control to make bulk updates to products using the Import a Product endpoint, using a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file. Save time changing product fields or adding new products for multiple products at once.
Support Bulk Product Updates
The Export API in EP PXM is available to make bulk updates to products in EP PXM. Create a CSV file to add product updates in minutes with a simple upload.
Simplify Product Catalog Management
EP PXM now gives merchandisers and technical teams the ability to assign products to multiple hierarchies (categories) and their child nodes (subcategories). This can be done via Commerce Manager, our business user tooling, or via API.
Create Differentiated Promotion Strategies
Merchandisers now have the ability to dynamically include or exclude products in a promotion based on a specific attribute such as color, size, or brand. You simply add your preferred attributes in Commerce Manager without custom dev or time-consuming manual workarounds.
Reduce Time to Update Products
EP PXM gives merchandisers the control to make bulk updates to products using the Import a Product endpoint, using a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file. Save time changing product fields or adding new products for multiple products at once.
Support Bulk Product Updates
The Export API in EP PXM is available to make bulk updates to products in EP PXM. Create a CSV file to add product updates in minutes with a simple upload.
Simplify Product Catalog Management
EP PXM now gives merchandisers and technical teams the ability to assign products to multiple hierarchies (categories) and their child nodes (subcategories). This can be done via Commerce Manager, our business user tooling, or via API.
July - September 2022 Updates
Elastic Path Commerce Cloud
Making Composable Commerce Accessible
Elastic Path Commerce Cloud is now the first and only MACH commerce solution to be HIPAA-enabled. This means that healthcare and life science brands are finally able to embrace a Composabl e Commerce approach.
Upholding Security Standards
Elastic Path Commerce Cloud is the only Composable Commerce solution to achieve SOC 2 Type II for Security. Brands can trust in an eCommerce partner that upholds the highest standards for security.
Go to SOC 2 Type IIProvide a Flexible Shopper Experience
Your shoppers now have the freedom to choose their own options in a bundle, increasing customer satisfaction and retention. Empower customers with the flexibility to select one or more products from a list in your store front.
Go to Dynamic Bundles
Create Differentiated Merchandising Strategies
Elevate your sales and promotion strategy with hierarchy-based promotions. Whether you’re doing a promotion for events like back to school or “Black Friday” you now have the flexibility to target a specific group of products to promote within an existing hierarchy or a new one that you can create. Save time without the manual process of including and excluding skus for promotions.
Simplify Product Catalog Management
EP Product Experience Manager (EP PXM) product importer allows you to manage product information easily with a simple upload of a CSV file. Whether you’re looking to make bulk changes to your product data and inventory or replatforming,the product importer alleviates the hassle of manual product catalog management.
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Meet Consumer Demands for Payment Options
Split payments gives your customers the choice to utilize multiple payment sources for a single order using, using externally authorized payments. Studies show that 50% of customers say they cancelled a purchase due to a lack of acceptable payment method (ECC-Payment Study).
Whether it’s gift card and credit card, store credit and credit card and more, you’ll be able to provide the payment experiences your customers expect in this ever-evolving commerce market.
Making Composable Commerce Accessible
Elastic Path Commerce Cloud is now the first and only MACH commerce solution to be HIPAA-enabled. This means that healthcare and life science brands are finally able to embrace a Composabl e Commerce approach.
Upholding Security Standards
Elastic Path Commerce Cloud is the only Composable Commerce solution to achieve SOC 2 Type II for Security. Brands can trust in an eCommerce partner that upholds the highest standards for security.
Go to SOC 2 Type IIProvide a Flexible Shopper Experience
Your shoppers now have the freedom to choose their own options in a bundle, increasing customer satisfaction and retention. Empower customers with the flexibility to select one or more products from a list in your store front.
Go to Dynamic Bundles
Create Differentiated Merchandising Strategies
Elevate your sales and promotion strategy with hierarchy-based promotions. Whether you’re doing a promotion for events like back to school or “Black Friday” you now have the flexibility to target a specific group of products to promote within an existing hierarchy or a new one that you can create. Save time without the manual process of including and excluding skus for promotions.
Simplify Product Catalog Management
EP Product Experience Manager (EP PXM) product importer allows you to manage product information easily with a simple upload of a CSV file. Whether you’re looking to make bulk changes to your product data and inventory or replatforming,the product importer alleviates the hassle of manual product catalog management.
Go to Blog Meet Consumer Demands for Payment Options
Split payments gives your customers the choice to utilize multiple payment sources for a single order using, using externally authorized payments. Studies show that 50% of customers say they cancelled a purchase due to a lack of acceptable payment method (ECC-Payment Study).
Whether it’s gift card and credit card, store credit and credit card and more, you’ll be able to provide the payment experiences your customers expect in this ever-evolving commerce market.
April - June 2022 Updates
Elastic Path Commerce Cloud
Gain Insights and Improve Business Decisions
The new analytics functionality in Commerce Manager gives you a detailed look of your total orders made and total value of orders over a period of time that you select.
Flexible Product Information Management
Our centralized Commerce PIM simplifies product information management so you can create unique, differentiated product experiences that help your brand stand out in this competitive commerce market.
Now you can create product descriptions with rich text formatting, search on partial SKU in products and use our WYSIWYG visual editor to add description fields for products.
Customize Products for Multi-geo Commerce
The new product localization functionality streamlines your multi-geography business model, so you can launch to market in new locales quickly. It enables you to localize product names and descriptions when creating your products in Commerce Manager.
Go to Product Locales
Merchandise Products With Ease
Start delivering unique innovative commerce experiences with ease, using our simplified merchandising approach. You can now duplicate hierarchies with a similar node structure in Commerce Manager.
Go to Product Hierarchy ConfigurationsGain Insights and Improve Business Decisions
The new analytics functionality in Commerce Manager gives you a detailed look of your total orders made and total value of orders over a period of time that you select.
Flexible Product Information Management
Our centralized Commerce PIM simplifies product information management so you can create unique, differentiated product experiences that help your brand stand out in this competitive commerce market.
Now you can create product descriptions with rich text formatting, search on partial SKU in products and use our WYSIWYG visual editor to add description fields for products.
Customize Products for Multi-geo Commerce
The new product localization functionality streamlines your multi-geography business model, so you can launch to market in new locales quickly. It enables you to localize product names and descriptions when creating your products in Commerce Manager.
Go to Product Locales Merchandise Products With Ease
Start delivering unique innovative commerce experiences with ease, using our simplified merchandising approach. You can now duplicate hierarchies with a similar node structure in Commerce Manager.
Go to Product Hierarchy ConfigurationsJanuary - March 2022 Updates
Elastic Path Commerce Cloud
Create & Optimize Differentiated Experiences
The new Pre-Composed Solution™ for Multi-touchpoint Experiences empowers business teams with everything they need to quickly launch differentiated experiences without reliance on technical teams. This solution pre-integrates Vue Storefront, Bloomreach, Avalara, Elastic Path Commerce Cloud, and Elastic Path Payments into one cohesive solution.
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Layer Multiple Price Books For More Flexibility
Price book stacking allows merchandisers and catalog managers to overlay a price book on top of the original price book to allow for price changes for a specific subset of products.This will be especially useful for B2B negotiated pricing, cohort pricing and loyalty pricing on a subset of items in your total product catalog
Make Changes To Your Categories With Ease
Node Sorting allows eCommerce teams to have full control of how their nodes/categories/menu items are organized for shopper consumption, without reliance on their frontend development team. This means merchandisers now have the ability to freely rearrange their menus and have that immediately be reflected on the frontend without the need for frontend reprogramming.
Amazon MQ Support With STOMP
New Simple Text Messaging Protocol (STOMP) integration support now allows messaging queuing services like Amazon MQ and Google Sub/Pub to deliver events directly into a configured queue and process the messages.
Create & Optimize Differentiated Experiences
The new Pre-Composed Solution™ for Multi-touchpoint Experiences empowers business teams with everything they need to quickly launch differentiated experiences without reliance on technical teams. This solution pre-integrates Vue Storefront, Bloomreach, Avalara, Elastic Path Commerce Cloud, and Elastic Path Payments into one cohesive solution.
Go to Press Release Layer Multiple Price Books For More Flexibility
Price book stacking allows merchandisers and catalog managers to overlay a price book on top of the original price book to allow for price changes for a specific subset of products.This will be especially useful for B2B negotiated pricing, cohort pricing and loyalty pricing on a subset of items in your total product catalog
Make Changes To Your Categories With Ease
Node Sorting allows eCommerce teams to have full control of how their nodes/categories/menu items are organized for shopper consumption, without reliance on their frontend development team. This means merchandisers now have the ability to freely rearrange their menus and have that immediately be reflected on the frontend without the need for frontend reprogramming.
Amazon MQ Support With STOMP
New Simple Text Messaging Protocol (STOMP) integration support now allows messaging queuing services like Amazon MQ and Google Sub/Pub to deliver events directly into a configured queue and process the messages.
October - December 2021 Updates
Elastic Path Commerce Cloud
Launch Personalized Subscriptions Services in Weeks
The new Pre-Composed SolutionsTM built by Pixie Labs, on top of Elastic Path, removes the complexity of custom building or integrating a subscription solution so that brands can start powering subscription experiences faster, increasing customer retention rate, and driving a predictable source of revenue.
Offer Unique Discounted Prices For Groups of Products
With SKU-Based and SKU-Less bundles you can now decide to either create discounts for a group of products where the price is not dependent on the total price of the products or where the price is dependent on the sum of each component product price.
Generate Unique Child-Product Variations
This new feature allows you to generate child products, from base products, with a number of options such as as size, color, and more. In addition, this feature also allows you to inherit base product pricing if child product pricing isn't provided, sell child products independently, and view details of product variation in the base product response
Schedule Flash Sales With Ease
Product-based sale pricing is now available in Commerce Manager. Schedule flash sales with ease for seasonal and strike-through pricing without needing new catalog rules.
Uniquely Describe Your Product
Quickly customize and extend your product data by creating custom attribute fields and templates that uniquely describe the characteristics of your products. This can be found under configurations in Product Content Management in Commerce Manager.
Go Live With D2C in 90 Days
The new Pre-Composed SolutionsTM built by TA Digital, on top of Elastic Path, makes it easier and faster to launch a D2C site. By pre-integrating CMS, payments, tax, and shipping with core commerce capabilities from Elastic Path, this solution empowers brands to reduce IT headcount, get to market faster, and delight customers with intuitive experiences.
Launch Personalized Subscriptions Services in Weeks
The new Pre-Composed SolutionsTM built by Pixie Labs, on top of Elastic Path, removes the complexity of custom building or integrating a subscription solution so that brands can start powering subscription experiences faster, increasing customer retention rate, and driving a predictable source of revenue.
Offer Unique Discounted Prices For Groups of Products
With SKU-Based and SKU-Less bundles you can now decide to either create discounts for a group of products where the price is not dependent on the total price of the products or where the price is dependent on the sum of each component product price.
Generate Unique Child-Product Variations
This new feature allows you to generate child products, from base products, with a number of options such as as size, color, and more. In addition, this feature also allows you to inherit base product pricing if child product pricing isn't provided, sell child products independently, and view details of product variation in the base product response
Schedule Flash Sales With Ease
Product-based sale pricing is now available in Commerce Manager. Schedule flash sales with ease for seasonal and strike-through pricing without needing new catalog rules.
Uniquely Describe Your Product
Quickly customize and extend your product data by creating custom attribute fields and templates that uniquely describe the characteristics of your products. This can be found under configurations in Product Content Management in Commerce Manager.
Go Live With D2C in 90 Days
The new Pre-Composed SolutionsTM built by TA Digital, on top of Elastic Path, makes it easier and faster to launch a D2C site. By pre-integrating CMS, payments, tax, and shipping with core commerce capabilities from Elastic Path, this solution empowers brands to reduce IT headcount, get to market faster, and delight customers with intuitive experiences.
July - September 2021 Updates
Elastic Path Commerce Cloud
Promotion Enhancements
Promotion Enhancements
We continue to add new customer centric promotions to attract new customers and maintain customer loyalty. Learn how you can offer free gifts, put a limit on promotion usage, exclude specific products from your promotions and more now with Elastic Path Commerce Cloud.
Product Content Management Enhancements
Product Content Management Enhancements
We continue to enhance our hyper-flexible and fast product and catalog management service with support for multi-byte languages in Products and Hierarchies, the addition of attributes and templates to Configurations, the ability to customize products, and much more.
Advanced Pricing Support
Sales & Volume Pricing Support
In order to support brand's complex and custom pricing needs, we now offer the ability to advance-schedule the specific time and date for sale price books to go live and volume support so that brands can offer different pricing based on the quantity of items a customer purchases.
Account Management Enhancements
Password Profile Support
Instead of only being able to use an OpenID Connect profile to authentication, we have added password profile support so that users can log in to Commerce Manager using a username and password of their choice. These APIs can also be used for account member authentication.
Promotion Enhancements
Promotion Enhancements
We continue to add new customer centric promotions to attract new customers and maintain customer loyalty. Learn how you can offer free gifts, put a limit on promotion usage, exclude specific products from your promotions and more now with Elastic Path Commerce Cloud.
Product Content Management Enhancements
Product Content Management Enhancements
We continue to enhance our hyper-flexible and fast product and catalog management service with support for multi-byte languages in Products and Hierarchies, the addition of attributes and templates to Configurations, the ability to customize products, and much more.
Advanced Pricing Support
Sales & Volume Pricing Support
In order to support brand's complex and custom pricing needs, we now offer the ability to advance-schedule the specific time and date for sale price books to go live and volume support so that brands can offer different pricing based on the quantity of items a customer purchases.
Account Management Enhancements
Password Profile Support
Instead of only being able to use an OpenID Connect profile to authentication, we have added password profile support so that users can log in to Commerce Manager using a username and password of their choice. These APIs can also be used for account member authentication.
Looking for real-time updates? Visit the changelog where we list out backwards-compatible updates and fixes in the API and dashboard.
Cart Expiry Extension
Cart Expiry Enhancement
Increase Cart Expiry Time to Your Preference
The cart expiry enhancement now allows brands to adjust their cart expiry preferences from 7 days to 365 days.
Merge Carts Functionality
Merge Carts Functionality
Enable Shoppers to Merge Multiple Carts into One
The ability to merge carts is now available in the Reference store and the API. This update improves the ease of use by enabling shoppers to merge anonymous and registered carts into one.
Re-order Cart Functionality
Re-Order Cart Functionality
Enable Shoppers to Re-Order Easily
We have enhanced our cart functionality to allow shoppers to re-order a previous order from their order history - allowing them to make repeat purchases easily. This feature especially enhances the user experience of B2B customers that need need to re-order large and complex orders.
Storefront Quick Start Developer Guide
Storefront Quick Start Developer Guide
Access the Storefront Quick Start in the Developer Guide
We have created a new asset that provides a step-by-step guidance for building an Elastic Path Store. This Storefront Quick Start makes it easier for developers to optimize their brand's stores.
Cart Expiry Extension
Cart Expiry Enhancement
Increase Cart Expiry Time to Your Preference
The cart expiry enhancement now allows brands to adjust their cart expiry preferences from 7 days to 365 days.
Merge Carts Functionality
Merge Carts Functionality
Enable Shoppers to Merge Multiple Carts into One
The ability to merge carts is now available in the Reference store and the API. This update improves the ease of use by enabling shoppers to merge anonymous and registered carts into one.
Re-order Cart Functionality
Re-Order Cart Functionality
Enable Shoppers to Re-Order Easily
We have enhanced our cart functionality to allow shoppers to re-order a previous order from their order history - allowing them to make repeat purchases easily. This feature especially enhances the user experience of B2B customers that need need to re-order large and complex orders.
Storefront Quick Start Developer Guide
Storefront Quick Start Developer Guide
Access the Storefront Quick Start in the Developer Guide
We have created a new asset that provides a step-by-step guidance for building an Elastic Path Store. This Storefront Quick Start makes it easier for developers to optimize their brand's stores.
January - March 2021 Updates
The Elastic Path Commerce 8.2.0 release includes four primary features:
- Account Management
- Order Hold Strategies
- Catalog Promotion Enhancements
- Code Updates to Terminologies
Elastic Path Commerce
The latest product innovations in Elastic Path Commerce.
Other Elastic Path Product Updates
Pre-Composed Solutions™ for D2C Commerce
Six new Composable Commerce Solutions for DTC brands to easily deliver unique, digital commerce experiences across:
- Web & mobile
- Marketplace
- Chat & Social
- Retail
Six new Composable Commerce Solutions for DTC brands to easily deliver unique, digital commerce experiences across:
- Web & mobile
- Marketplace
- Chat & Social
- Retail
Pre-Composed Solution™ for B2B Commerce
A business-ready solution providing a quick start to rapidly launch complex B2B experiences with advanced quoting, account management, subscriptions, complex catalog support, role-based access and more. This Pre-Composed Solution was developed in partnership with DigiCommerce.
A business-ready solution providing a quick start to rapidly launch complex B2B experiences with advanced quoting, account management, subscriptions, complex catalog support, role-based access and more. This Pre-Composed Solution was developed in partnership with DigiCommerce.
Bulk Updates To Cart
Bulk Update To Cart
Allow Shoppers to Bulk Update Items in Cart
We have updated our cart functionality to allow brands to minimize the time a shopper spends updating items in cart, by enabling them to update an array of items in one action, instead of having to update each one individually.
Multiple Carts Extension
Multiple Carts Extension
Allow Customers to Access Multiple Carts
The multiple cart functionality improves the ease of use for B2B buyers who need the flexibility have two carts, so that they can more easily shop from two different departments or lines of the business.
Improved UX for Refunds
Improved UX For Refunds
Access Refunds from the Commerce Manager dashboard
We have enhanced the refund functionality so that associates can save time by conducting full and partial refunds directly in the Commerce Manager dashboard instead of logging into their payment gateway portal.
SSO via OpenID Connect
SSO via OpenID Connect
SSO for Seller Organizations via OpenID Connect
We have implemented support for OpenID Connect layer to enable user authentication with external identity providers, including Okta, Ping, and many others. This results in a better customer experience and improved security for all parties involved in the process.
Bulk Updates To Cart
Bulk Update To Cart
Allow Shoppers to Bulk Update Items in Cart
We have updated our cart functionality to allow brands to minimize the time a shopper spends updating items in cart, by enabling them to update an array of items in one action, instead of having to update each one individually.
Multiple Carts Extension
Multiple Carts Extension
Allow Customers to Access Multiple Carts
The multiple cart functionality improves the ease of use for B2B buyers who need the flexibility have two carts, so that they can more easily shop from two different departments or lines of the business.
Improved UX for Refunds
Improved UX For Refunds
Access Refunds from the Commerce Manager dashboard
We have enhanced the refund functionality so that associates can save time by conducting full and partial refunds directly in the Commerce Manager dashboard instead of logging into their payment gateway portal.
SSO via OpenID Connect
SSO via OpenID Connect
SSO for Seller Organizations via OpenID Connect
We have implemented support for OpenID Connect layer to enable user authentication with external identity providers, including Okta, Ping, and many others. This results in a better customer experience and improved security for all parties involved in the process.
Pre-Composed Solutions™
Business-ready solutions, pre-composed from Elastic Path commerce capabilities, 3rd party integrations, and customizations that reduce the perceived risk of headless, microservices technology. Explore All Pre-Composed Solutions™ in the Composable Commerce Hub.
Composable Commerce XA™
Composable Commerce XA™
Reduce the Risk of Composable, Multi-Vendor Solutions
New experience assurance offering combines proprietary monitoring technology and holistic issue management for commerce solutions composed for multiple vendors so that more brands can bring their unique digital visions to life, without the complexity.
GraphQL Server
GraphQL Server
Support Shopping Experiences With GraphQL Server for Elastic Path Commerce Cloud
This release enables developers more familiar with GraphQL, as compared to REST, to more easily build shopping experiences. The GraphQL server provides the following capabilities:
- Ability to build shopping experiences using Elastic Path Commerce Cloud and GraphQL
- Convenience of wrapping APIs from different systems and vendors with a single GraphQL endpoint
Role-Based Access Control
Role-Based Access Control
Easily Assign users to Appropriate Teams
Quickly and easily assign roles so that users can fulfill their responsibilities without disrupting other team’s workflows, ensuring brands can more effectively run their commerce business.
Account Management
Account Management
Support B2B Account Structures
Sellers can now create, view, and edit accounts and add, view, and edit users to those accounts. In addition, B2B buyers can now create and view orders across their entire account.
Composable Commerce XA™
Composable Commerce XA™
Reduce the Risk of Composable, Multi-Vendor Solutions
New experience assurance offering combines proprietary monitoring technology and holistic issue management for commerce solutions composed for multiple vendors so that more brands can bring their unique digital visions to life, without the complexity.
GraphQL Server
GraphQL Server
Support Shopping Experiences With GraphQL Server for Elastic Path Commerce Cloud
This release enables developers more familiar with GraphQL, as compared to REST, to more easily build shopping experiences. The GraphQL server provides the following capabilities:
- Ability to build shopping experiences using Elastic Path Commerce Cloud and GraphQL
- Convenience of wrapping APIs from different systems and vendors with a single GraphQL endpoint
Role-Based Access Control
Role-Based Access Control
Easily Assign users to Appropriate Teams
Quickly and easily assign roles so that users can fulfill their responsibilities without disrupting other team’s workflows, ensuring brands can more effectively run their commerce business.
Account Management
Account Management
Support B2B Account Structures
Sellers can now create, view, and edit accounts and add, view, and edit users to those accounts. In addition, B2B buyers can now create and view orders across their entire account.