Commerce Extensions
Elastic Path Commerce Extensions gives you the power to create tailored data structures and endpoints without ever touching your core commerce platform. No database migrations. No deployment headaches. Just pure extensibility through simple API calls.
Every commerce implementation is unique. Your business runs on processes, models, and data structures that off-the-shelf platforms can’t anticipate. Most platforms lock teams into predefined objects, leaving engineering to compensate with:
Unrelated object overload or custom fields
Sprawling microservices to hold custom data
External databases that fragment the model
Glue code required to sync and secure everything
These approaches increase complexity, degrade performance, and introduce operational risk.
Commerce Extensions solves this by giving you a native extensibility layer for custom resources, custom attributes, and event-driven services, all governed and hosted inside Elastic Path.
You gain the flexibility of custom development without the operational burden of running your own extensibility infrastructure.
Commerce Extensions allows development teams to define custom resource types or extend existing Elastic Path resources with additional attributes, structures, or relationships. Each extension automatically behaves like a first-class part of the platform, inheriting platform-level security, API access, and performance guarantees.
Create new resource types using schema-driven definitions. Each resource is fully addressable through REST APIs and behaves like a native commerce object.
Add structured attributes and metadata to products, prices, hierarchies, orders, or accounts without altering underlying platform logic.
Execute attribute-level, range-based, and multi-attribute queries within a structured, searchable model. All queries are fast, sortable, and require no indexing or custom query engine.
Define explicit connections between custom objects or between custom and native resources to model complex domain logic.
Trigger platform-level behaviors or data updates based on lifecycle events such as product updates, catalog changes, or ordering workflows.
All custom data and runtime environments are secured, scaled, and maintained by Elastic Path. No separate runtime, database operations, or monitoring pipelines required.
Every custom object and attribute is accessible via REST, enabling clean integration with storefronts, middleware, admin tools, and internal applications.
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Modern commerce often requires data and behaviors that cannot be expressed through standard product, pricing, or order models. Commerce Extensions gives developers a structured way to encode these requirements directly within the platform. The following use cases highlight where this extensibility becomes most valuable.
Model compatibility tables, dynamic configuration rules, or part-level detail needed to power complex product discovery.
Store procurement attributes, contract details, per-account business logic, or workflow states.
Enrich data used to determine pricing, availability, or eligibility across regions, contract tiers, or customer groups.
Model attributes for traceability, lifecycle states, or component-level detail.
Store warranty terms, service intervals, unit history, or support data tied to orders or products.
Enable domain-specific filters, facets, and relationships for enhanced discovery.
Commerce Extensions is engineered for mission-critical workloads. Your custom resources benefit from high availability, automatic failover, and horizontal scalability. Data is encrypted, strictly isolated per tenant, and accessible only through authenticated and authorized requests. The platform maintains strong SLA-backed guarantees, removing the burden of provisioning infrastructure, tuning performance, or designing a resiliency strategy yourself. This gives engineering teams the confidence to rely on Commerce Extensions for essential business logic.
Commerce Extensions addresses the limitation of predefined platform data models by providing a native way to create structured, queryable custom resources. It removes the need for external microservices, side databases, or schema workarounds that fragment your architecture and increase operational overhead.
Unlike unstructured or semi-structured fields, custom resources are typed, validated, searchable, and filterable. They support relationships, advanced querying, and strong schema control. They also inherit full platform security and performance characteristics.
No. Commerce Extensions is fully hosted and managed by Elastic Path. You don’t provision infrastructure, configure indexes, or operate a separate runtime. Custom data lives within the platform with built-in availability, scaling, and governance.
Yes. Every custom resource is automatically exposed through REST endpoints that follow Elastic Path’s API standards. Your applications interact with them using the same patterns used across the platform.
Custom data is stored and served by the same infrastructure that powers Elastic Path’s commerce operations. The extensibility layer is optimized for high-volume reads and writes, enabling predictable low-latency performance even as data sets and traffic scale.
Yes. Custom resources support attribute-level filtering, multi-attribute constraints, range queries, and sortable results without requiring indexing setup or a separate query engine.
Yes. Commerce Extensions supports defining relationships between your custom resources and existing platform objects such as products, accounts, orders, and hierarchies. This ensures your domain model remains cohesive and queryable across the platform.
Custom resources inherit Elastic Path’s authentication, authorization, and tenant-isolation model. You can govern access at the same level of granularity as native commerce objects, ensuring consistent security across your architecture.
No. Storefronts and internal systems consume custom resources just like any other Elastic Path object. Because everything is exposed through standard APIs, you maintain predictable integration patterns without adding new services or integration points.
Commerce Extensions consolidates data, logic inputs, and schema control directly inside the commerce platform rather than distributing them across services that you must deploy, scale, secure, and maintain. This reduces system surface area, improves performance, and keeps your architecture more manageable over time.