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Episerver Digital Experience Cloud Service (DXCS) relies on Microsoft Azure, where the infrastructure is based on the concept of automatic scaling. It means, any Azure Web-App running through DXCS can clone itself, to accommodate load in peak situations, or to mitigate failures. It does bring a great amount of benefits! It though also require you to think twice when installing pre-built
Even thought there are great tax calculation providers with add-ons for Episerver Commerce (like Vertex), which makes tax compliance in e-Commerce a breeze, it happens to be required for developers to leverage the built-in taxation system in Episerver Commerce. Configuration of tax jurisdictions, through various geographic descriptors, taxation types and corresponding fee’s are always required. Once in a while, we are on top
Episerver is often referred to as a Content Management System (CMS) and an e-Commerce platform. Such classification is not incorrect, true! It is rather an understatement of what Episerver truly has become over the past years or so. A short history lesson Looking back a few years, Episerver were leading on their web Content Management and e-Commerce capabilities, enabled via
Not everyone is aware, but the SerializableCart in Episerver Commerce is by default case sensitive on SKU. It means that features relying on a free-form approach to add to cart features, like Order Entry, potentially creates duplicate line items, which might skew your cart experience and influence your marketing promotions. Instead of always validating the entry against your catalog, to
Not everybody had the opportunity to spend a few days in Las Vegas, to participate in the annual Episerver conference of the year: Episerver Ascend. Us attendees helped Episerver set a new record for number of visitors this year, which we together celebrated with tons of great presentations, road map conversations and, of course, parties. If you are looking to get up to date, then here’s a
When doing a Free Text Search in Episerver Find, you find yourself relying on an instance of ITypeSearch to build your query through method chaining. Since ITypeSearch<> is generic, it is intended to describe what kind of content your Free Text Search is meant to locate – e.g. PageData, ProductContent or simply IContent. If we speak to derived classes of
When dealing with complicated rules around distribution of goods in e-Commerce, Episerver Commerce luckily out-of-the-box ships with support for distributed fulfillment centers. It relies on a concept of Warehouses, being entities representing the physical distribution facilities – e.g. a in-store pick-up location or a distribution center. In many Episerver implementations, the Episerver developer is, as part of the creation of
Using Episerver Blocks, to e.g. support re-usable components when building campaigns, in Episerver Commerce’s marketing view, should be considered a common use-case scenario. Out of the box, that is easily possible. It only requires you to register a ContentReference driven property type – e.g. ContentReference, ContentArea or List – for it to be supported in the Marketing authoring interface. After you’ve done that, you will probably
We all know the feeling, having to setup tax jurisdictions, warehouses, payment methods or shipping methods can be a tedious exercise, which quickly can be interfered by human mistakes if it isn’t applied consistently. Not everyone is aware that these data aspects easily can be scripted, hence automatically moved across databases used by folks within your development team and to
Fellow.Epi.Metrics: Application Measurement and Monitoring made Easy This Episerver add-on exposes key insights about platform performance and system health. It acts as a reporting platform useful as part of implementation, operation and incident management. By default, it allows you, as an Episerver developer, to easily register code to be measured along with integration endpoints to be monitored. Example performance outputs