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Commerce

Salesforce B2B and D2C Commerce

• Make your store’s ✨New Year’s resolutions ✨ a reality with Commerce Einstein Goals and Recommendations — set goals, follow AI recommendations, and watch your shop thrive.
• Meet Commerce Concierge Bot — it’s the genie in the e-commerce bottle 🧞, granting wishes for conversational product discovery and reordering.
• ⏩ Skip the hustle and 🖲 click ‘Draft with Einstein’ in the Promotion workspace, because why work hard when you can use natural language instructions and generative AI to make a smart promotion 🤓!
• Let Einstein be your SEO wingman, creating your Page Title Tag and Page Meta Description fields on products.
• Seeking a ‘couch’ or ‘sofa’? Fear not, the new AI-powered search gets you and has you covered! To activate Einstein semantic search, first enable Commerce Einstein and storefront activity tracking. GA
• Fast-track your store setup with a TODO list right on the store home page — because ticking off tasks has never been this satisfying ✔️!
• Guest Access made easy! Enable Person Account, hit ‘Enable Guest Access’ and let Salesforce do the heavy lifting.
• Set your store’s v̶i̶b̶e̶ locale settings from the get-go, no more post-creation hassle. It’s like picking the perfect 🎶 background music 🎶 before the party kicks off.
• Master the global tax game 💪: Calculate, collect, and report tax on global payments without maintaining static tax tables. PILOT
• Enable ‘Preserve Guest Carts’ and let logged-in customers seamlessly pick up right where they left off — no more cart-emptying drama 🛒! (Enabled by default for new stores).
• Switch up your shipping game 🃏! Enable Split Shipping, and let your customers play the ‘Split’ card, sending items from one order to various locations, it’s a shipping showdown with up to 10 deliveries per order! Just remember, no subscriptions in this wild U̶n̶o̶ game of shipping.

• Want to fulfill an Order from Multiple Locations ? Get started by installing and activating the Split Order Fulfillment flows.
• Go big or go home! Add promotions to carts with 10,000 or more quantities of items.
• Limit coupon redemption by setting maximum uses per customer and overall uses — after all, as they say, ‘Even the nicest people have their limits’.
• Roll out the search red carpet✨ 📸! Now your customers can find products faster with automatic SKU detection! And fear not, the classic ‘sku:’ or ‘SKU:’ search trick is still backstage, ready to make its grand entrance if needed! PILOT
• Like clothing sizes, components aren’t one-size-fits-all — create variations tailored to your audience.
• Speed up payments with Express Checkout Component for seamless digital wallet orders. Blink and you’ve paid 💸!
• Empty search results? Meet me 👋, the No Results Layout Component, delivering a message. And my buddy 🫂, the Loading State Component, keeps the anticipation alive as we hunt for results!
• New in town 🎉! Now, you can configure and register business accounts in D2C Commerce.
• Wondering how to set up Self-Registration with the new unified method? Enable it, define a profile, account record type, permission set group, and up to 20 default buyer groups. Now, take a moment and pat yourself on the back — you did it!

Omnichannel Inventory

• Guess what? You can now see if shipping has been disabled for an item on the Inventory Lookup tab in the Omnichannel Inventory Console.

Salesforce Order Management

• The Order on Behalf Of flow is now playing fair 🤝, treating B2B and D2C guests and registered users alike.
• Integrate the new exchange APIs to handle product returns and exchanges seamlessly in one go, eliminating the need for the traditional return-and-reorder two-step — we’re keeping it simple and snappy!
• Order Management Flow Type Field speaking 💬: ‘Call me Transaction Type — that’s the only name I’ll be answering to from now on’.

More Volumes?

• Volume I: General Enhancement, Scheduler, Search & Data Pipelines
• Volume II: Analytics
• Volume III: Lightning App Builder, Sharing, Permissions and General Setup
• Volume IV: Commerce
• Volume V: Development
• Volume VI : SF Industries