June 2020 Newsletter

Elastic Path Commerce Cloud

The leading headless commerce microservices solution for high-velocity brands

 

What's New in Product

 

Promotions

 

 

Promotion Capabilities Enhancement

Improved promotion capabilities including visual promotions builder, new promotion type, and customer-specific promotions that will allow you to drive sales growth and reinforce customer loyalty.

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Payment Gateway Updates 

To make the shopping journey even more convenient for your customers we are continuously working on expanding our payment ecosystem and have added support for PayPal Express Checkout and PayPal Payflow Pro payment gateways.

 

Payment

 

What's Next in Product

 

Refunds Capabilities Improvement
The ability to conduct full and partial refunds in the dashboard that will directly request the refund with the associated payment gateway, avoiding the need to use the payment gateway’s portal.
Reference Store Rollout
Quickly deploy all the front-end components you need for a compelling shopping experience right out-of-the-box with a PWA Reference Store.
Support for OpenID Connect
Improved user experience through the ability to sign into the Elastic Path Commerce Cloud with an OpenID Connect compatible identity provider.

Looking for real-time updates? Visit the changelog where we list out backwards-compatible updates and fixes in the API and dashboard.

Visit the Changelog

 

 

Elastic Path Commerce Cloud Education

 

Tuesday, July 7th
Understanding Flows
What are Flows? Sign up for our new course and find out how you can use Flows to extend the data schema. Know something about Flows already? Don’t design yourself into a box. Sign up for just the design workshop where we work through some design principles and best practices.
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Get to Know Commerce Manager
This course contains small quick learning modules for every functionality and configuration available in your dashboard. Each module takes no more than a few minutes to complete. Feeling stumped? Take just the module you need to help you complete your task. If you are new to Elastic Path, this is a great place to get you started.
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No Time to Train?
In today’s busy world who has time to block out their calendar for long periods of time to train? We’ve designed our learning materials with you in mind, letting you be in control. Our courses are short and topic-focused, so you can take just what you need when you need it. Search the library in our Learning Center for what interests you.
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Latest News & Events

 

Billion Dollar B2B eCommerce
On-Demand Webinar
Leadership & Alignment with Johnstone Supply
The need for leadership as an essential catalyst to drive change in an organization, without proper leadership B2B eCommerce does not happen effectively.

Join this session featuring Brian Klaus, Director of eCommerce at Johnstone Supply to learn how to set your organization up for success and ensure you have the correct players in place to break the chains of traditional business practices, demolish silos and inaction, create alignment, and begin a digital transformation.
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Composable Commerce
Press Release
“Composable Commerce” Establishes New Paradigm for Modern eCommerce Innovation
Hyper-connected customers, complex business models, and the rapid pace of emerging technologies have necessitated new architectural approaches that build upon MACH and JAMstack components...
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Billion Dollar B2B eCommerce
On-Demand Webinar
Building an eCommerce Foundation with Keysight Technologies
Your ecommerce platform and related systems are the foundation in your online selling playbook. Selecting the right platform determines what you can do and how quickly you can bring digital transformation to market.

This session will walk you through what to look out for when selecting a platform, pitfalls and lessons learned from Carl Daw, Program Manager at Keysight Technologies.
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Partner Spotlight

 

Zilker Technology

Zilker Technology is an expert Digital Consultancy and Systems Integrator that combines the agility of a start-up with the experience and expertise of a global consulting firm and has been a valuable partner of Elastic Paths for almost two years.

Most recently, Zilker completed the successful implementation of Goodman Manufacturing which included the launch of websites for three of their brands: www.goodman-dealers.com, www.daikinhub.com, and www.amanahac-dealers.com. This was also the first customer to leverage Bloomreach XM and Search and Merchandizing!

“Zilker is proud to have been a key partner in this transformational effort. The power of the tools Goodman can now offer to their dealers to manage all of their interactions digitally is phenomenal. The combination of headless commerce and experience management provided by Elastic Path and Bloomreach made the ideal platform to build an industry leading dealer buying portal. Since launch, adoption has been growing at an exponential pace, and we are excited for the changes happening in Goodman’s company owned distribution channel”

- Michael Rasmussen, Cheif Commerce Architect, Zilker Technology

Congratulations to all involved!

 

Read the Latest: eCommerce Blog

 

COVID-19’s out-of-stock impact and how PWAs can support “endless aisle 3.0”
In the “new normal” of disrupted supply chains and local stores doubling as online fulfillment centers, accurate real-time data is even more critical, as is the ability to reserve stock. Shoppers have disappointing out-of-stock experiences once every three shopping trips, on average.
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Headless commerce + headless CMS: the perfect combination?
Online merchants have embraced experience-driven commerce for over a decade, using headless commerce and APIs to allow content management systems (CMS) and digital experience platforms (DXP) to power the front end, rather than be restricted to the features and functionality offered out-of-the-box with commercial commerce platforms.
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Better BOPAC: 6 ways to improve curbside pickup in the “new normal”
Pre-COVID, 40% of shoppers said buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS or click-and-collect) was their most valued retail shopping experience, with BOPIS behavior growing 30% from 2018.
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