Extend Configured Commerce

To help you plan for and build Optimizely {user["product-name"]} extensions that will work with the Mobile App both now and/or in the future, consider the following scenarios when approaching development.

Optimizely recommends adding custom business logic on the API and/or server-side first. Assess the impact of these customizations to ensure they work well on both your {user["product-name"]} website and the Mobile App before exploring other ways of extending the system or business logic.

Want more information about the {user["product-name"]} Mobile App and the functionality it includes? Read more here: What is the {user["product-name"]} Mobile App?

You add a custom field to the {user["product-name"]} storefront and want to require it to have a value before customers can submit orders. You change the relevant API endpoint to accommodate for and require the new field.

Considerations

While we don't prevent you from adding custom fields to an API, consider:

{user["product-name"]} passes a product availability message to your customers as a string of data through an API. You want to format this message so it is easier for your customers to read. You put logic on the storefront side to insert pipes to parse the message when it displays to customers.

Considerations

While using pipes in the storefront logic to parse the data string doesn't break anything, consider: