For high-volume, frequent updates from an external system, the Integration API with asynchronous queues is the recommended, scalable approach. It decouples the update process from the live site, ensuring performance isn’t impacted. Impex imports are less efficient for frequent updates, Catalog Version Sync is for internal promotion, and the Product Cockpit is for manual management, not automated high-volume integration.

For a promotion to be evaluated and applied, the ‘Potential Promotion’ flag must be enabled. This is a common oversight. If this is false, the rule engine will not even consider the promotion during cart calculation. Checking priority, calculation jobs, or price groups are valid troubleshooting steps, but they come after confirming the promotion is marked as a potential candidate.

The Facade pattern is a core architectural principle in SAP Commerce. A dedicated CategoryPageFacade or ProductSearchFacade should be used. It acts as an interface, encapsulating the complexity of underlying services (like ProductSearchService, CatalogService) and providing a simple API to the web layer. This maintains separation of concerns, promotes reusability, and centralizes business logic.

The Price Row system natively supports validity dates (startDate and endDate). By creating a new price row for the product with the discounted price and an end date set to 4 hours in the future, the system will automatically use this price within the timeframe and fall back to the standard price afterward. This is the standard, out-of-the-box way to manage time-based pricing without manual intervention or custom code.

The checkout process steps are defined as a list of Spring beans in the Spring configuration context (e.g., in a checkout-flow-spring.xml file). The order of the beans in the list determines the sequence of the checkout steps. The *-items.xml file defines the type system, project.properties and local.properties are for environment settings, not process flow.

After modifying type system definitions in *-items.xml files, you must run a system update (Update Running System or Initialize System in HAC). This process generates the necessary Jalo classes and, most importantly, executes the required SQL ALTER TABLE commands to add the new column to the database table. Without this step, the attribute does not exist in the DB.

In SAP Commerce B2B, payment terms and restricted payment methods are typically managed through B2B-specific User Groups (e.g., B2BCustomerGroup). Payment terms can be assigned directly to these groups, and the payment method restrictions can be configured per user group, allowing for fine-grained control over which payment options are available to different sets of B2B customers.

CMS Restrictions can be applied to components (like the banner) to control their visibility. By creating different B2C or Customer User Groups for ‘Europe’ and ‘NorthAmerica’ and assigning customers to them (often via geolocation), the content manager can create two banner components with different content and restrict each one to the appropriate user group. The correct component will then render automatically based on the user’s session.

A consignment is a sub-division of an order created for fulfillment purposes. When an order contains items that need to be shipped from different warehouses (points of fulfillment) or via different delivery modes, the system splits the order into consignments. Each consignment is tracked and managed independently through the fulfillment process (pick, pack, ship).

For high-volume, frequent updates from an external system, the Integration API with asynchronous queues is the recommended, scalable approach. It decouples the update process from the live site, ensuring performance isn’t impacted. Impex imports are less efficient for frequent updates, Catalog Version Sync is for internal promotion, and the Product Cockpit is for manual management, not automated high-volume integration.0