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Optimizely Commerce Connect system overview

Optimizely Commerce consists of an ecommerce engine with a number of subsystems, together with Optimizely CMS for creating and displaying product content on the front-end website. The following are the main subsystems of Optimizely Commerce Catalogs https //docs.

Release notes

Start developing with Optimizely Commerce Connect

Set up a development environment https //docs. developers.

Caching for Commerce Connect

Platform cache functionality, including remote synchronization, is part of the Optimizely platform. Classes in this topic are in the Mediachase.

Globalization

When describing the language concept in Optimizely, the following language setting types are mentioned System language . Controls date/time formatting, sort order, and so on.

Initialization system

You can develop your initialization module, see Initialization https //docs. developers.

Logging API

Optimizely comes with a logging API, which is an abstraction for writing log messages from the system. Logging is useful when you troubleshoot and locate application problems.

Metadata Plus

MDP lets you extend any system object with a series of meta-fields. It is similar to object-oriented programming.

Routing

The Optimizely Commerce Connect routing system extends the Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) Routing system to expose catalog content like products, variants, and categories using individual URLs. The data sent to the client browser is compiled by a matching rendering template.

Scheduled jobs

Scheduled jobs run in the background at preset time intervals and typically do cleanup and batch-updating tasks. A default Optimizely Commerce Connect installation has several predefined scheduled jobs managed from the Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) administration interface.

Workflows and activities

In Optimizely Commerce Connect, activity flows were used to validate and calculate checkout totals. An activity flow is a container of steps or activities that can be executed.

Configure AI-generated product descriptions

You can use generative AI in Optimizely Commerce Connect to generate text from a product property https //support. optimizely.

Dashboard overview

Optimizely Commerce Connect has a dashboard that displays simple metrics when you log in, including Total Sales, Average Order Value, GMV, and Orders. See Dashboard overview in the user guide for information.