Administer and report
Dashboard overview
Optimizely Commerce Connect provides a dashboard that displays simple metrics when you log in, including Total Sales, Average Order Value, Gross Merchandise Value (GMV), and Orders and charts for Sessions, Conversion Rate, Cart Abandonment Rate, and Revenue Per Visitor. Total Sales – Gross sales including shipping, taxes, duties, and fees, minus any discounts and returns.
Business Foundation overview
Business Foundation extends the attributes of the Customer Management system to give you more flexibility with the displayed and collected fields and attributes. Business Foundation works with the metadata engine for no-code customization of the data mode, allowing you to define new objects and relations between them for the Customer Management system.
Administration overview
Optimizely Commerce Connect lets you configure and apply specific settings in the administration user interface. These settings affect areas such as markets, payments, and shipping used for catalogs and order management.
Reporting
You can collect various types of data from Optimizely Commerce Connect, such as order and subscription data for a desired time range. You can find the data in the Report view or export files to use in other applications.
Markets
Markets in Optimizely Commerce Connect help you target merchandising and create more personalized user experiences. For example, you can create a 20% off promotion for Independence Day in Canada.
Warehouses
A warehouse is the physical inventory location with an address from where product items are shipped or picked up by customers. As an ecommerce manager in an organization with many fulfillment centers, you can define and manage physical store locations, multiple stock locations, stock figures for a product variant (SKU) by warehouse, and total product availability among warehouses.
Update a catalog search index
Indexing a catalog ensures that your search results are accurate and up-to-date. You can index a catalog in the following ways Build – Indexes items that have changed since the previous build.
Payments
Optimizely Commerce Connect payments include payment types, payment gateways, and payment methods. Payment type – The properties for a particular payment type.
Countries
Optimizely Commerce Connect lets you add, delete, multi-select, created a country code, set a sort order, and indicate if the country is active visible under Settings > Countries . You can also create regions tied to a specific country.
Dictionaries
You can use dictionaries and dictionary values to enrich data in Optimizely Commerce Connect when working with currencies, countries, customer organizations, customer contact groups, and catalog content. Commerce Connect comes with default values installed that you can change through code.
Taxes
You can configure taxes so that the checkout process calculates rates and adds them to the total price. You can combine and apply multiple taxes (such as federal, state, and local tax) to a purchase.
Shipping
Shipping is the physical delivery of product to ecommerce customers. You can configure both shipping methods and providers in Optimizely Commerce Connect.
Shipping methods
A shipping method manages information and rules that determine shipping cost. Customers see this information when adding an item to a shopping cart.
Shipping providers
A shipping provider class interacts with a shipping service, such as USPS, UPS, or FedEx by retrieving shipping price information. A provider can present specific scenarios with one or more services, such as price by weight or ground shipping.
Scheduled jobs
A scheduled job performs a specific task automatically when set to a date and time. You can run scheduled jobs automatically or manually.