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Step by step install Sitecore XC 10.2 using SIF on Windows 11

Follow these steps to install Sitecore Commerce 10.0 On Premise. To successfully install refer to Installation Guide provided by Sitecore.

Before installing Sitecore Commerce install Sitecore XP 10.2. See this blog to install Sitecore XP 10.2 using SIF. Say the XP site name is- xp0.sc

Download Installation Guide

Hosting Environment Requirements/ Download and Install following software-

OS – Windows Server 2019/2016 or Windows 10 Pro(64-bit) or Windows 11 Pro(64-bit)
Redis (Windows): 3.0.504 (or later)
Database – Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Express Edition (This should be already installed as a part of XP 10)
Install Microsoft Web Deploy 3.6 if not already installed
Install URL Rewrite using Web Platform Installer
SOLR 8.4.0 (This should have already installed as a part of XP 10 install)
Install PowerShell 5.1 or later is not already installed
Web Platform Transformer (Download nuget package)

IMPORTANT – As per the release notes –

The deployment of SXA has been removed from the Commerce installation, and instead installed as a Platform pre-requisite before installing Commerce packages.

Install Powershell Extension for Sitecore – Download Sitecore PowerShell Extension for Sitecore

Install Sitecore Experiemce Accelerator 10.2.0 – Download Sitecore Experience Accelerator 10.2.0

Also Commerce Ops service is removed from deployment configuration this will reduce deployment time and hosting cost.

Before starting the installation ensure XP 10.2 instance is working and indexed. If not indexed rebuild all search indexes-

Download Sitecore Experience Commerce 10.2

Step-by-step installation process-

Create a installation folder for XC – xcinstall for e.g.- c:\scinstallation\xc

2. Copy and extract Sitecore.Commerce.WDP.2021.11-8.0.218.zip file to c:\scinstallation\xc folder

3. Copy Sitecore Experience Accelerator 10.2.0 rev. 04247.zip file c:\scinstallation\xc folder

4. Copy Sitecore.PowerShell.Extensions-6.3 – IAR.zip file to c:\scinstallation\xc folder

5. Extract Web Platform Transfomer nuget package and copy Microsoft.Web.XmlTransform.dll to c:\scinstallation\xc folder

6. Extract SIF.Sitecore.Commerce.7.0.37 to c:\scinstallation\xc folder. Rename this to SIF

7. Folder structure should look like this-

8. Open Deploy-Sitecore-Commerce.ps1 file in SIF folder to update the following-

$XCInstallRoot
$XCSIFInstallRoot = “$XCInstallRoot\SIF”,
$SiteNamePrefix
$SiteName
$SiteHostHeaderName [optional]
$MergeToolFullPath= “$XCInstallRoot\Microsoft.Web.XmlTransform.dll”
$CommerceServicesDbServer = “sc102comm\MSSQL2017”

9. Create Commerce Engine Connect Client Secret for the Sitecore Identity Server

Copy below script to file to scinstall/SIF.Sitecore.Commerce.5.0.49 folder example XC10SecretClientCertificate.ps1
Execute the script and copy secret key to $CommerceEngineConnectClientSecret

10. [Optional] Update Sitecore domain or keep it default

$SitecoreDomain
$SitecoreUsername
$SitecoreUserPassword

11. Update other DB related settings

$SqlUser
$SqlPass
$SitecoreDbServer
$CommerceServicesDbServer

12. Update SOLR details-

$SolrUrl
$SolrRoot
$SolrService

Execute Deploy-Sitecore-Commerce.ps1 script to install commerce

IMPORTANT – After deployment is complete Disable TLS 1.3 over TCP for all the sites and all bindings

Sitecore Commerce Business Tools Compatibility Table

November 8, 2021 / sandeeppote

Sitecore Commerce installation package comes with Sitecore Business Tools SDK.

If you are planning to custommise Business Tools you might have to setup the development environment for Business Tools. You can find more information on how to setup the development environment here

For each version of Sitecore Commerce you need to install the specific version of Business Tools in you development environment.

See below the compatibility table for Business Tools with Sitecore commerce-

Package for the same can be found here

Sitecore Commerce (XC) Version	Sitecore Business Tools Version	Download Link
10.2	7.0.6	https://sitecore.myget.org/feed/sc-npm-packages/package/npm/@sitecore/bizfx/7.0.6
10.1	6.0.6	https://sitecore.myget.org/feed/sc-npm-packages/package/npm/@sitecore/bizfx/6.0.6
10.0	5.0.12	https://sitecore.myget.org/feed/sc-npm-packages/package/npm/@sitecore/bizfx/5.0.12
9.3	4.0.8	https://sitecore.myget.org/feed/sc-npm-packages/package/npm/@sitecore/bizfx/4.0.8
9.2	3.0.7	https://sitecore.myget.org/feed/sc-npm-packages/package/npm/@sitecore/bizfx/3.0.7
9.1	2.0.3	https://sitecore.myget.org/feed/sc-npm-packages/package/npm/@sitecore/bizfx/2.0.3
9.0.3	1.4.1	https://sitecore.myget.org/feed/sc-npm-packages/package/npm/@sitecore/bizfx/1.4.1
9.0.2	1.2.19	https://sitecore.myget.org/feed/sc-npm-packages/package/npm/@sitecore/bizfx/1.2.19
9.0.1	1.1.9	https://sitecore.myget.org/feed/sc-npm-packages/package/npm/@sitecore/bizfx/1.1.9
9.0.0	1.0.572	https://sitecore.myget.org/feed/sc-npm-packages/package/npm/@sitecore/bizfx/1.0.572

Install Sitecore 9.0.2 – Cannot process argument transformation on parameter ‘Signer’

August 30, 2021 / sandeeppote / 0 Comments

If you see this error whilst installing Sitecore 9.0.2 the issue might be due to multiple certificates been issues.

In this case delete both certificates listed –

Get-ChildItem Cert:\LocalMachine\Root\<<Thumbprint>> | Remove-Item

Try the installation again

ERROR-

SOLUTION-

Check and remove – DO_NOT_TRUST_SitecoreRootCert if its expired from Local Computer and Current User.

Also remove the same form the dis mainly from C:\certificates

ERROR-

SOLUTION-

Sitecore Commerce 10 Create a custom plugin project

November 6, 2020 / sandeeppote

If you want to get started and create a custom plugin for XC 9.3 here is the post for same First Steps | Sitecore Commerce Development | Create a Custom Plugin

There are few updates on how the plugins are created in XC 10.

Sitecore Commerce 10 SDK does not include Visual Studio Extension (VSIX) package for creating a plugin project.

Let’s get started and look into the steps to create a new plugin in Sitecore Commerce 10. If you have already set up your commerce development environment, please skip to step 2

Step 1 – Setup developer environment

Create a developer environment for Sitecore Commerce to run the engine from Visual Studio, can be either VS 2017 or 2019. Follow this blog post for same Setup development environment for Sitecore Commerce 10 Engine

Step 2: Download Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Template from Nuget Feed

Navigate to Official Sitecore Commerce Nuget Feed
Search for Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Template
Download the package for Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Template 6.0.4. Copy to file Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Template.6.0.4.nupkg desired folder.

3. Install Sitecore Commerce Plugin Template Nuget Package

Open Powershell in admin mode and navigate to the folder nupkg file is copied and execute following command to install package

dotnet new -i .\Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Template.6.0.4.nupkg

Run the dotnet new command and should be able to see Sitecore Commerce Sample Plugin template

4. Create a new Sitecore Commerce Plugin Project

As we have a plugin project template we should be able create a new plugin project.

Execute following command in Powershell. Navigate to the solution src folder-

dotnet new pluginsample -o Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.SampleTest

New plugin project is created with the project name specified in command.

Include the project in Customer.Sample.Solution and compile.

Notice even though the command has project name “Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.SampleTest” the actual project is created as “Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.Sample”. You will have to rename this unfortunately as per your requirement.

Sharding Custom Entity in Sitecore Commerce 10

October 20, 2020 / sandeeppote

Sharding is horizontal partitioning of data in database. It is the process of breaking up large tables into smaller chunks.

Storing rows of the same table in multiple database nodes

In this blog post will see how to split the Commerce Entities table having same structure but store custom entity data in a separate table that helps to split the load that a CommerceEntities table might take if the horizontal partition is not done.

Why partioning of tables is required?

Sitecore Commerce entity data are store in following tables-

CommerceEntities
CommerceEntity
CommerceLists

Any custom entity been created without sharding will store data by default in tables mentioned above.

What if that data increases, there might be a performance hit once the data start expanding over months and years.

Also it wont be good idea to put the multiple custom entity data into a single table. As this might give a performance hit whilst indexing table. So, if you know data might increase over the time it is better to have it saved in a separate table as it can be a boon to high-volume data.

Partitioning data using sharding policy

I assume you know how extend Sitecore Commerce entities. Consider we have a “Organization” entity. Business Tools helps in capturing details of Organization i.e. CRUD operations. When the entity is been saved it has to be saved in different table.

This driven by the sharding policies in Commerce.

Follow these steps to enable sharding of custom entity-

Sharding Policies

The Commerce Engine implements database sharding for Commerce entity and list tables, and provides 2 types of sharding policies. One is for the operation against Commerce entities i.e. EntityShardingPolicy, and other on the Commerce lists i.e. ListShardingPolicy.

Configuration for sharding policy is kept in PlugIn.SQL.Sharding.PolicySet-1.0.0.json file and can be found in data\Environments folder of the Authoring and Shops instance.

As per Sitecore documentation sharding policies has expressions and multiple expression values can be configured based on this the table of the entity is identified to read and perform write operations. This is a bit contrary statement as the table name defined in policies are passed to the stored procedure based on this the data in table is written and read.

Below sharding policy mentions 2 tables-

OrganizationsLists for managing and reading lists of Organizations

OrganizationsEntities for managing and reading Organization entities

{
"$type": "Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.SQL.ListShardingPolicy, Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.SQL",
"Expressions": {
"$type": "System.Collections.Generic.List1[[System.String, mscorlib]], mscorlib", 
"$values": 
[ 
"^List-Organization.*?$"
] 
},
 "TableName": "OrganizationsLists" 
},

{ 
"$type": "Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.SQL.EntityShardingPolicy, Sitecore.Commerce.Plugin.SQL", 
"Expressions": { 
"$type": "System.Collections.Generic.List1[[System.String, mscorlib]], mscorlib",
"$values": 
[
"^Entity-Organization.?$", 
"^Organization-.?$"
]
},
"TableName": "OrganizationsEntities"
}

Database

To save data in different tables create Entities, Entity and Lists table prefixed with entity name in SitecoreCommerce_SharedEnvironments database

Right click CommerceEntities table select Script Table as option, Create to and then New Query Editor Window. Create script for CommerceEntities table will be generated.
Change the name of table to e.g.:- OrganizationsEntities. Also change the table name to set Default value to EntityVersion and Published fields
Pasrse and check if you are creating a table in correct Database
Execute the script. New table will be created.

Follow same for CommerceEntity table to create OrganizationsEntity and CommerceLists to create OrganizationsLists

So there are 3 tables created so far-

OrganizationsEntities
OrganizationsEntity
OrganizationsLists

Once you have your plugin to perform CRUD operations on Organizations entity you should be able to see the data been inserted in OrganizationEntities, OrganizationLists and OrganizationsEntity table instead of CommerceEntities and there related tables.

Sitecore Commerce 10- Setup Development Environment for Business Tools – Part 1

September 25, 2020 / sandeeppote

Business Tools is extensible using pluggable framework and can extend a UI using Entity Views. Although Business Tools offers a rich set of controls you might want to create your own custom control for the best business experience.

For this you need to first setup the development environment for business tools. Once the environment is setup you should be ready to develop custom control/customize the business tools.

Prerequisites

Instance of Commerce Engine deployed in development environment
Install Node.js Javascript runtime
Install Angular CLI tool – npm install -g @angular/cli

NPM configuration to have NPM Packages from Sitecore public feed

Sitecore BizFx SDK relies on NPM packages available on the Sitecore official public feed for NPM packages.

Open Poswershell as Administrator

Execute these 2 commands in powershell

npm config set @speak:registry=https://sitecore.myget.org/F/sc-npm-packages/npm/

npm config set @sitecore:registry=https://sitecore.myget.org/F/sc-npm-packages/npm/

This will add following line to–

C:\Users\[your user]\.npmrc

[Optional] – you may check if this lines are added

@speak:registry=https://sitecore.myget.org/F/sc-npm-packages/npm/
@sitecore:registry=https://sitecore.myget.org/F/sc-npm-packages/npm/

Setup and Install SPEAK and BizFx packages for development solution

Copy Sitecore.BizFX.SDK.4.0.8 folder to your development folder and extract the SDK zip file to folder e.g. c:\BizFXDevelopment\SitecoreBizFx

Copy below files to the folder SDK was extracted. You should find this files from the Sitecore XC release package.

speak-icon-fonts-1.1.0.tgz
speak-ng-bcl-2.0.0-r00116.tgz
speak-styling-1.0.0-r00110.tgz

Execute the following commands where the above files were copied

npm install speak-icon-fonts-1.1.0.tgz

npm install speak-ng-bcl-2.0.0-r00116.tgz

npm install speak-styling-1.0.0-r00110.tgz

npm install @sitecore/bizfx

Run npm install. This should install required npm modules and add a folder node_modules

npm install

Setup the business tools config.json with your deployment configuration

Once the npm installed successfully open config.json file located in src\assets folder

Update the config to the same as the BizFx site instance except for BizFxUri. Note BizFxUri points to http in below config

{
  "EnvironmentName": "HabitatAuthoring",
  "EngineUri": "https://localhost:5000",
  "IdentityServerUri": "https://xp10.IdentityServer",
  "BizFxUri": "http://localhost:4200",
  "Language": "en",
  "ContentLanguage": "en",
  "Currency": "USD",
  "ShopName": "CommerceEngineDefaultStorefront",
  "LanguageCookieName": "selectedLanguage",
  "ContentLanguageCookieName": "selectedContentLanguage",
  "EnvironmentCookieName": "selectedEnvironment",
  "AutoCompleteTimeout_ms": 300,
  "AccessTokenUpdateInterval_ms": 300000
}

Run the development environment

Important!

Stop the SitecoreBizFx site as the site listens to 4200 port. Next step will help listen the site from the extracted SDK folder.

Execute following Powershell command –

ng server

Open browser on http://localhost:4200/ this should ask to enter the Sitecore client credentials, once provided it will throw an error

This site can’t provide a secure connection

The reason this error occurs the identity server is not configure to server BizFx site on http

Update the Sitecore Identity Server Configuration

Open the Sitecore.Commerce.Identity ServiceHost.xml from the installed Identity Server instance \wwwroot\Config\production

Add http://localhost:4200 to AllowedCorsOriginGroup1

<AllowedCorsOrigins>
<AllowedCorsOriginsGroup1>http://localhost:4200</AllowedCorsOriginsGroup1>
</AllowedCorsOrigins>

Update Commerce Engine configuration

Open config.json from wwwroot folder in CommerceAuthoring site

Update AllowedOrigins in AppSettings to have http://localhost:4200

Since the config is changed need to bootstrap so the changes are applied to authoring site
Restart IIS. Optionally you may just restart Commerce Authoring site

Run Business tool from development environment

Open browser on http://localhost:4200/

Business tools running on http and in developer mode.

References –

step-by-step instructions on how to setup and compile the Business Tools (BizFX) application using the Sitecore.BizFX.SDK

Stay tuned next blog will walk through on how to create a new custom control/component in Business Tools

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Setup development environment for Sitecore Commerce Engine 10

September 8, 2020 / sandeeppote

Sitecore Experience Commerce 10 has come up with great new features like Dynamic Bundles, Free gift with Purchase promotion and a sample Sitecore DAM to Commerce connector.

Before you start looking into this, it is important to setup the development environment to debug and test the changes you are making to engine.

Main changes I could see compared to previous versions are integration with Content Hub and Configuring the Commerce Engine using environment variables which not only helps for on-premise installation of Commerce Instance but also helps setup the Docker technology where XC solution is running in containers.

In this post I will walk you through on how to setup the development environment. This post assumes you have Sitecore Commerce Engine along with Visual Studio 2019 installed on developer workstation. If Commerce not installed no worries see this post on how to install Sitecore XC 10 step-by-step.

Step-by-step install Sitecore Commerce (XC) 10

For previous version of XC you may follow this blog post

Step-by-step – Setup development environment for Sitecore Commerce 9.3 Engine

Step 1- Extract Commerce Engine SDK

Copy the downloaded SDK Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.SDK.6.0.130.zip on your development folder. e.g: c:\development. Note– there is an update on 19th August where the external dependencies are removed. Download the package again if you have a version before this date.
If not available you may download Packages for On Premise WDP 2020.08-6.0.238. Login before you download the file.
Extract the commerce package and then extract Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.SDK.6.0.130.zip in your development folder

Step 2 – Setup Visual Studio Solution

Open the Solution, by default this is Customer.Sample.Solution.sln
Ensure Package Source is configured for Commerce- https://sitecore.myget.org/F/sc-commerce-packages/api/v3/index.json

Whilst opening solution login from slpartners.myget.org will be prompted
Create an account on https://slpartner.myget.org/ and login here. You may unload Plugin.Sample.ContentHub project if you dont want to integrate ContentHub and the login should not require. Also note myget account has a trial for 14 days.

Build the Solution. It should restore the package and build successfully.
(optional)Rename the Solution name. In this case I have renamed to Retail.Commerce
(Optional) Create Foundation and Feature projects. Build the solution again.

Step 3- Important – Commerce Engine configuration

Sitecore.Commerce.Engine project should have a config.json file in wwwroot folder. Open this file you will see the placeholders that needs to be filled in.

Instead updating config file, you should update the launchSettings.json and the placeholders in config.json will be updated on launch on commerce engine.

Similarly Global.json you can find this in wwwroot/bootstrap folder of your Sitecore.Commerce.Engine project. Again this file has the Placeholders that will be populated from launchSettings.json,

You need to update mainly following variables in launchSettings.json file for both config and global json. There are other variables apart from listed below, you may need to update those based on your site instance name etc.-

COMMERCEENGINE_Caching__Redis__Options__Configuration
COMMERCEENGINE_GlobalDatabaseServer
COMMERCEENGINE_GlobalDatabaseUserName
COMMERCEENGINE_GlobalDatabasePassword
COMMERCEENGINE_SharedDatabaseServer
COMMERCEENGINE_SharedDatabaseUserName
COMMERCEENGINE_SharedDatabasePassword
COMMERCEENGINE_AppSettings__SitecoreIdentityServerUrl
COMMERCEENGINE_EngineAuthoringUrl
COMMERCEENGINE_EngineShopsUrl
COMMERCEENGINE_EngineMinionsUrl
COMMERCEENGINE_EngineHealthCheckUrl
COMMERCEENGINE_AppSettings__AllowedOrigins

Step 4 – Generate Development Certificate

Generate development certificate using script “New-DevelopmentCertificate”, so the localhost runs on SSL(https)

Create a folder named “dev” in the root directory of SDK
Create a folder named “Sitecore.Commerce.Engine_Dev” under “dev” folder
Create a folder named “wwwroot” under “Sitecore.Commerce.Engine_Dev” folder
Open powershell script and navigate to scripts folder.
Change the Path($certificateOutputDirectory) if required. Certificate should be copied to \src\Project\Engine\code\wwwroot
Execute New-DevelopmentCertificate script. This script should be available in script folder in SDK folder.

Step 5 – Update EngineUri in BizFx Site

Open config.json file. Should be in assets folder of your BizFx instance
Change EngineUri to https://localhost:5000
Change BizFxUri to https://localhost:4200
Restart BizFx site

Step 6- Run the Commerce Engine from Visual Studio

Set the Sitecore.Commerce.Engine project as Startup Project
Change the emulator to Engine
Stop the CommerceAuthoring_SC site hosted in IIS
Run the solution

Hope there should be nothing that should block to run the Business Tools requesting a call to Engine running from Visual Studio

Note: some places you may have to restart IIS also clear the browser cache before you start checking Business Tools is highly recommended.

Hope this post helps you setting your XC 10 development environment.

ISSUES–

Request origin https://bizfx.sc.com does not have permission to access the resource

Resolution- Follow Step 5

Options to Install Sitecore (XP) and Commerce (XC) 10

September 1, 2020 / sandeeppote

If you are looking for upgrade to Sitecore 10, below are the various options you are able to install Sitecore 10.

Sitecore XP 10

Sitecore Installation Assistant (SIA)

Sitecore Installation Assistant helps guides you through the Sitecore XP Developer Workstation installation. Use this option to review system requirements, install prerequisites and complete the entire installation process. With Sitecore 10 you have a option to also install SXA with SIA.

To install Sitecore 10 using SIA follow this post- Step-by-step how to install Sitecore 10 using SIA

Sitecore Installation Framework On-Premises (SIF)

Sitecore Install Framework (SIF) is a Microsoft PowerShell module that supports local and remote installations of Sitecore Experience Platform.

SIF deploys Web Deploy Packages (WDP) by passing parameters to SIF configuration through a Microsoft PowerShell module and is fully extensible.
The Sitecore Experience Platform is designed to be secure-by-default. For developer environments all the required self-signed certificates are created automatically if you do not provide any.
In a production environment, you can provide your own certificates In a non-production environment, you can choose to have the module generate the certificates for you.

You must set up SIF before you can install Sitecore Experience Platform

To install Sitecore XP 10 using SIF follow this post – Step-by-step install Sitecore XP 10 using Sitecore Installation Framework (SIF)

Sitecore Containers

Sitecore Containers support rapid deployment and more efficient solution and team onboarding with modern Docker and Kubernetes technology.

Sitecore Experience Platform 10.0.0 uses Docker Compose as the container
orchestrator on developer workstations. Docker Compose is a simple containerdeployment tool that is bundled with Docker for Windows. Sitecore container images can be deployed with other tools but we recommend that you use Docker Compose to deploy the containers that form the Sitecore Experience Platform.

To install Sitecore XP 10 using Sitecore Containers with Docker Compose- Step-by-step install Sitecore XP 10 to developer workstation using Sitecore Containers with Docker Compose

Sitecore XC 10

Sitecore Installation Framework (SIF)

Sitecore Install Framework (SIF) is a Microsoft PowerShell module that supports local and remote installations of Sitecore Experience Platform.

The SIF.Sitecore.Commerce package contains Sitecore Installation Framework scripts and Web Deployment Packages (WDP).

To install Step-by-step install Sitecore Commerce (XC) 10

How to resolve user registration error in Sitecore Commerce- “Invalid or missing value for property Domain .”,”User created but external Id was not provided”

July 31, 2020 / sandeeppote

Are you wondering why this error occurred while registering user?

You may come across this error when the engine is trying to create a customer in Commerce and the domain you have created for Storefront is not available in Commerce. The customer in commerce are mapped to the domain and if the domain is not found or matched with what is configured in Storefront this error will come.

So how to resolve this error-

Lets say your Storefront is mapped to use the default environment i.e. HabitatShops.

Follow steps below to make this work-

Open PlugIn.Habitat.CommerceAuthoring-1.0.0.json and find the CustomerPropertiesPolicy
You may see the list of Domains default been Storefront, extranet and CommerceUsers

Add the domain you have configured in your storefront in this list e.g.:- HabitatStorefront

Add the same domain to PlugIn.Habitat.CommerceShops-1.0.0.json
Ensure the domain is created and mapped in the Storefront correctly

Bootstrap Habitat Environment using Postman and now you should see the domain in the list whilst creating a customer

You should now able to see the domain in the list whilst creating a customer in business tool

Should also allow to create a customer with the new domain-

Hope this helps.

Elements of a Sitecore Commerce Plugin project template

June 28, 2020 / sandeeppote

In my previous post we saw the first step to create a new plugin by adding a new plugin project to the solution, restoring the correct binaries and reference new plugin to the Engine project.

In this post I will share what comes with the Plugin project template.

Sitecore Commerce Plugin project template creates folders and classes which helps to quick start creating a plugin, lets see what are these files –

1. Commands

To my understanding command is unit of work to perform set of actions. Commands allows to execute a pipeline and blocks within a transaction scope. Create a custom command by inheriting from CommerceCommand class. Use PerformTransaction method to run a pipeline in a transaction scope.

2. Components –

If you want to extend existing or custom entities, use component. Component has attributes that support entities.

3. Controllers –

Controllers expose commerce functionality implemented in plugins. They are the api endpoints. Sitecore Commerce has various Controller type- Entity, Api, Devops and Command. Create your own controllers by inheriting from CommerceController

4. Entities-

They are the persistable unit and represent the business concept. Inherited from the CommerceEntity they has a unique identifier that helps to retrieve the entity by using a Entity controller type.

5. Models –

They are the POCO classes that are reusable in entities and components. Can be used to present data as part of command response .

6. Pipelines – They do the heavy lifting in plugin by making it possible to define the extensible behavior. Create your own pipeline and add blocks you want to execute to implement your business logic. Blocks within pipelines execute in a sequence they are registered.

7. Policies –

Policies defines behavior for the functionality provided by the plugin. Its is recommended to not extend or inherit out-of-box plugins instead create your own. Plugins can be changed or created new by updating the JSON files provided in environment folder of the various roles site.

ConfigureSitecore –

ConfigureSitecore class helps to register the pipeline and block definitions that a plugin defines. You can create a new plugin and AddPipeline or extend the existing pipeline by adding a block After or Before any existing blocks. ConfigureSitecore class registers pipelines every time engine loads. You can also register commands or register your custom class in this class.

ConfigureServiceApiBlock –

This registers customer entities, components and controller action with ODATA model. It allows to these elements to be used when a REST API call is made and available when generating a proxy.

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