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API extensions and microservice layers by Nik

API Extensions and Microservice Layers

How do you design a Microservices Layer? How do you build an efficient API Extension? What is the best way to extend composable commerce APIs? Let’s answer these questions and explore the differences between API extensions and microservice layers.

Getting Started with the commercetools API Hub

commercetools Frontend comes with great business tools to help you manage a website; it has user-friendly features such as drag-and-drop. However, we're going to focus on an often overlooked feature in this article, which is the commercetools API Hub.

What is commercetools Foundry?

The discussion has revolved around Foundry’s benefits, including quick time to market, true flexibility, and ease of use. It’s great to see the stats and success stories from companies who have adopted Foundry. However many conversations have jumped right past the definition… What is commercetools Foundry? Is it a mindset, a guide, or a specific product? Let’s break it down in simple terms.
excluding items from commercetools promotions by Lena Kudryavtseva

Excluding Items from commercetools Promotions

Often, there need to be items that are excluded from the promotions a company runs. This demo runs you through how to add an exclusion to your cart discounts in commercetools. In our example promotion, we will allow customers with carts over $100 to use a 10% discount on all clothing items except for Polo-branded clothing items.
generating coupon codes in commercetools by Perry Merrity II

Generating Coupon Codes in commercetools

commercetools recently rolled out a more efficient way to generate coupon codes in the Merchant Center. Let's explore how easy it is to do this with an example promotion that grants 100 customers a 10% discount code that is unique to them.
discount impacts the Cart JSON in commercetools

How Each commercetools Discount Impacts the Cart JSON

Understanding how each commercetools discount impacts the cart JSON is an important skill. When a discount is applied, the JSON structure is updated to reflect the reduced prices, which can include changes to the subtotal, taxes, and total cost. This article explores what happens to the code at the API level when each type of discount is applied. It will also provide a Javascript code example that allows you to show your customers how much they're saving.
How to create a Buy More Save More promotion with commercetools

How to Create a Buy More Save More Promotion in commercetools

The Buy More Save More promotion is a unique type of promotion. It allows a customer to save more money if they spend more money by either giving them a percentage off or a dollar amount off. For example, buy $600 and save 35%, buy $300 and save 25%, and buy $150 and save 20%. This is the promotion setup we will use as our template.