Catalog versioning (staged vs. online) is the SAP-recommended approach for managing time-sensitive or seasonal content. Business users can prepare the future seasonal catalog (e.g., Winter collection) in the staged version while the current season (Summer) runs online. They can then schedule a sync to make the new catalog live, all within the same catalog structure, ensuring manageability and avoiding data duplication.

Configuring the cart reservation time limit is the standard and most controlled method. It allows the business to reserve inventory to prevent overselling (meeting the first requirement) while defining a specific timeout (e.g., 30 minutes) after which the reservation is automatically released if the cart is not updated or the order is not placed. This directly addresses the problem of abandoned carts tying up stock.

The Address Book is the native, flexible SAP Commerce Cloud feature designed for this exact scenario. It allows multiple addresses to be associated with a Customer (or User) account. Each address can be assigned one or more roles (like ‘shipTo’, ‘billTo’, ‘contact’), enabling clear separation of concerns. The checkout process can then present the appropriate list of addresses based on the context (e.g., only ‘shipTo’ addresses for shipping selection).

Delivery modes in SAP Commerce Cloud often have restriction rules, such as a minimum (or maximum) order value. If the cart’s subtotal falls outside the configured range for all active delivery modes, the system cannot find a ‘valid’ one, resulting in this error. Checking the delivery mode restrictions in the backoffice should be the first diagnostic step.

The ‘Cart Contains Categories Condition’ is designed for this. You would select the ‘Eco-Friendly’ category and then set the qualifier. The key is using the ‘minimum quantity’ operator (e.g., ‘>=’) and setting the quantity to 2. This evaluates as true if the total number of distinct products from that category in the cart meets the threshold, perfectly capturing the ‘any 2’ logic without complex rule nesting.

The auditing feature (often enabled via the `audit` or `hmc` extension) is specifically designed for this. When configured for a type (e.g., Product), it automatically persists metadata like `createdtime`, `modifiedtime`, and the `user` who performed the operation. This creates a reliable, system-managed audit trail directly in the database, which is essential for compliance and troubleshooting.

While categories are hierarchical, Classification Systems are the powerful, attribute-driven feature for complex technical or marketing categorizations. You define a hierarchy of Classes (e.g., Product -> Footwear -> Sports Footwear -> Running Shoe). Each class can have specific attributes assigned to it. Products are then assigned to a class in this system, inheriting its attribute structure. This is ideal for standardized, multi-level taxonomy management.

Catalog version synchronization works on a per-attribute level. If an attribute (like name) is not marked as localized, it is considered common across all catalog versions. Changing it in the staged version effectively changes it for the online version as well, as there is no separate copy. Marking the attribute as ‘localized’ ensures each catalog version (staged, online) maintains its own independent value for that attribute.

In the price factory, higher priority prices override lower priority ones. Promotion prices typically have a high priority. To make a customer group discount the base but allow promotions to override it, you set the customer group price row with a lower priority. This way, the 15% discount acts as the default price for Group A, but if a promotion (with higher priority) exists for a product, the promotion price takes precedence, meeting the requirement.

Catalog versioning (staged vs. online) is the SAP-recommended approach for managing time-sensitive or seasonal content. Business users can prepare the future seasonal catalog (e.g., Winter collection) in the staged version while the current season (Summer) runs online. They can then schedule a sync to make the new catalog live, all within the same catalog structure, ensuring manageability and avoiding data duplication.0