Introduction:
Oracle Commerce Cloud is a SaaS application and is a part of the comprehensive CX suite of applications. It is the most extensible, cloud-based ecommerce platform offering retailers the flexibility and agility needed to get to market faster and deliver desired user experiences across any device.
Oracle’s iPaaS solution is the most comprehensive cloud based integration platform in the market today. Integration Cloud Service (ICS) gives customers an elevated user experience that makescomplex integration simple to implement.
Commerce Cloud provides various webhooks for integration with other products. A webhook sends a JSON notification to URLs you specify each time an event occurs. External systems can implement the Oracle Commerce Cloud Service API to process the results of a webhook callback request. For example, you can configure the Order Submit webhook to send a notification to your order management system every time a shopper successfully submits an order.
In this article, we will explore how ICS can be used for such integrations. We will use the Abandoned Cart Web Hook which is triggered when a customer leaves the shopping cart idle for a specified period of time. We will use ICS to subscribe to this Web Hook.
ICS provides pre-defined adapters, easy to use visual mechanism for transforming and mapping data, fan out mechanism to send data to multiple end points. It also provides and ability to orchestrate and encrich the payload.
Main Article:
For the purpose of this example, we will create a task in Oracle Sales Cloud (OSC), when the Idle Cart Web Hook is triggered.
The high level steps for creating this integration are:
- Register an application in Commerce Cloud
- Create a connection to Commerce Cloud in ICS
- Create a connection to Sales Cloud in ICS
- Create an integration using the 2 newly created connections
- Activate the integration and register its endpoint with Abandoned Cart Web Hook
Now let us go over each of these steps in detail
Register an application in Commerce Cloud
Login to Admin UI of commerce cloud. Click on Settings
Click on Web APIs
Click on Registered Applications
Click on Register Application
Provide a name for the application and click Save
A new application is registered and a unique application id and key is created. Click on Click to reveal to view the application key
Copy the application key that is revealed. This will later be provided while configuring connection to Commerce Cloud in ICS
You can see the new application is displayed in the list of Registered Applications
Create a connection to Commerce Cloud in ICS
From the ICS Dashboard, click Connections to get to the connections section
Click Create New Connection
Create Connection – Select Adapter page is displayed. This page lists all the available adapters
Search for Oracle Commerce Cloud and click Select
Provide a connection name and click Create
ICS displays the message that connection was created successfully. Click Configure Connectivity
Provide the Connection base URL. It is of the format https://<site_hostname>:443/ccadmin/v1. Click OK
Click Configure Security
Provide the Security Token. This is the value we copied after registering the application in Commerce Cloud. Click OK
The final step is to test the connection. Click Test
ICS displays the message, if connection test is successful. Click Save
Create a connection to Sales Cloud in ICS
For details about this step and optionally how to use Sales Cloud Events with ICS, review this article
Create an integration using the 2 newly created connections
From the ICS Dashboard, click Integrations to get to the integrations area
Click Create New Integration
Under Basic Map My Data, click Select
Provide a name for the integration and click Create
Drag the newly create Commerce Cloud connection from the right, to the trigger area on the left
Provide a name for the endpoint and click Next
Here you can chose various business objects that are exposed by the Commerce Cloud adapter. For the purpose of this integration, chose idleCart and click Next
Review the endpoint summary page and click Done
Similarly, drag and drop a Sales Cloud connection to the Invoke
Provide a name for the endpoint and click Next
Chose ActivityService and createActivity operation and click Next
Review the summary and click Done
Click the icon to create a map and click the “+” icon
This opens the mapping editor. You can create the mapping as desired. For the purpose of this article, a very simple mapping was created:
ActivityFunctionCode was assigned a fixed value of TASK. Subject was mapped to orderId from idleCart event.
Add tracking fields to the integration and save the integration
Activate the integration and register its endpoint with Abandoned Cart Web Hook
In the main integrations page, against the newly created integration, click Activate
Optionally, check the box to enable tracing and click Yes
ICS displays the message that the activation was successful. You can see the status as Active.
Click the information icon for the newly activated integration. This displays the endpoint URL for this integration. Copy the URL. Remove the “/metadata” at the end of the URL. This URL will be provided in the Web Hook configuration of Commerce Cloud.
In the Commerce Cloud admin UI, navigate to Settings -> Web APIs -> Webhook tab -> Event APIs -> Cart Idle – Production. Paste the URL and provide the ICS credentials for Basic Authorization
By default, Abandoned cart event fires after 20 minutes. This and other settings can be modified. Navigate to Settings -> Extension Settings -> Abandoned Cart Settings. You can now configure the minutes until the webhook is fired. For testing, you can set it to a low value.
This completes all the steps required for this integration. Now every time a customer adds items to a cart and leaves it idle for the specified time, this integration will create a task in OSC.
References / Further Reading:
Using Commerce Cloud Web Hooks
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