Unmasking the Ghosts in the Machine: A Developer’s Guide to Combating Fraud on Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud
Enhance your security beyond the basics on Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud with this comprehensive guide tailored for developers. It covers strategies to combat e-commerce fraud, examines the capabilities of native tools, offers practical code examples for creating custom scoring engines with SFRA and SCAPI hooks, and compares leading third-party services such as Riskified and Kount. This resource aims to help you develop a robust, multi-layered defence for your storefront.
The Kickstart Guide for New Salesforce B2C Commerce Developers
An interactive guide for new SFCC developers. Explore SFRA architecture, compare frameworks, and learn essential tools, best practices, and common pitfalls.
The Headless Go-Live Gauntlet: Your Definitive SCAPI & SLAS Mobile App Checklist
For years, the Salesforce B2C Commerce go-live process has been a well-trodden path. The Site Readiness Assessment (SRA) served as our trusted map, guiding us
The SFCC Quota Gauntlet: A Developer’s Survival Guide to the Top Platform Limits
It is a scenario that haunts every e-commerce developer: the 3 AM pager alert. The production site is down, shoppers are seeing the dreaded “general
The Realm Split: A Developer’s Field Guide to Migrating an SFCC Site
Have you ever found yourself in a deployment-day standoff? Your team is ready to push a critical feature for the US site, but it’s blocked
Taming the AI Beast: A Custom Toolkit to Supercharge Copilot for Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Have you ever felt like your AI pair programmer—be it GitHub Copilot, Claude, or Cursor—has a brilliant mind that suddenly develops amnesia the moment you mention dw.catalog.ProductMgr? You’re not alone. The anxiety is palpable in the SFCC community. We’ve all been sold the dream of the AI-augmented developer, a future where we operate at a higher level of abstraction, leaving the boilerplate to our silicon partners. Yet, for those of us deep in the trenches of Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud, the reality has been… frustrating.
Taming the Beast: A Developer’s Deep Dive into SFCC Meta Tag Rules
Most of us have glanced at the “Page Meta Tag Rules” section in Business Manager, shrugged, and moved on to what we consider ‘real’ code. That’s a mistake. This isn’t just another BM module for merchandisers to tinker with; it’s a declarative engine for automating one of the most tedious and error-prone parts of e-commerce SEO. It’s a strategic asset for developers to build scalable, maintainable, and SEO-friendly sites.
Field Guide to Custom Caches: Wielding a Double-Edged Sword
You think you know caching. You’ve enabled page caching, fiddled with content slot TTLs, and called it a day. And your Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud site is still slower than a snail in molasses. Why? Because you’re ignoring the most potent weapon in your performance arsenal: the Custom Cache.
Session Sync Showdown: From plugin_slas to Native Hybrid Auth in SFRA and SiteGenesis
Headless APIs have been available in Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud for some time, under the “OCAPI (Open Commerce API.).” In 2020, a new set of
The Ultimate SFCC Guide to Finding Your POD Number
Knowing your POD number isn’t just trivia; it’s a critical piece of operational intelligence. It’s the key to configuring firewalls, anticipating maintenance and troubleshooting effectively.
Image-ine: Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud DIS for Developers
in the wild, wild west of e-commerce, images aren’t just pretty pictures. They’re your silent sales force, your conversion catalysts, and your SEO superheroes. Shoddy, slow-loading visuals? That’s a one-way ticket to “bounce rate hell” and a brand image that screams “we tried.” But fear not, intrepid developer! Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud’s Dynamic Image Service (DIS) is here to rescue your storefront from visual mediocrity and transform it into a high-octane, pixel-perfect masterpiece.
AI Won’t Steal Your SFCC Job, But a Developer Using AI Will: The Rhino Inquisitor’s Survival Guide
Let’s cut to the chase. The whispers in every virtual stand-up, the subtext of every tech keynote, the existential dread creeping into your late-night coding sessions—it all boils down to one question: Is Artificial Intelligence coming for your job? As a Salesforce Commerce Cloud developer, you’re standing at the intersection of a specialized, high-stakes platform and the most disruptive technological wave of our generation. The anxiety is palpable, and it’s not unfounded.
From Lag to Riches: A PWA Kit Developer’s Guide to Storefront Speed
Let’s be honest: a slow e-commerce site is a silent killer of sales. In the world of B2C Commerce, every millisecond is money. As a PWA Kit developer, you’re on the front lines of a battle where the prize is customer loyalty and the cost of defeat is a lost shopping cart. Today’s shoppers have zero patience for lag. They expect buttery-smooth, app-like experiences, and they’ll bounce if you don’t deliver.
Mastering Sitemaps in Salesforce B2C Commerce: A Developer’s Guide
In Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud (SFCC), the sitemap is more than just a list of links. It’s a powerful, scalable system for telling search engines exactly what’s on your site and how important it is. Getting it right means faster indexing, better visibility, and a happier marketing team. Getting it wrong can leave your brand-new products invisible to Google.
London Calling: AI, Community, and the Secret of the “House of Titan”
The technology world is in a constant state of flux, but the recent seismic shift towards Artificial Intelligence feels different. It’s not just another trend; it’s a fundamental rethinking of how we interact with data, customers, and one another. In the Salesforce ecosystem, this AI-fueled energy has reached a fever pitch. There was palpable anticipation leading up to the Agentforce World Tour in London, a feeling that we were on the cusp of something transformative. This event, however, was slated to be more than just another stop on the global tour.
Local vs Shared Variation Attributes in Commerce Cloud
In the dynamic world of eCommerce, the concept of product variation holds significant importance. It empowers merchants to effectively present a range of product options,
Sending Emails from Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud: A Comprehensive Guide
This article covers the reasons for opting to send emails via Salesforce Commerce Cloud, the platform’s limitations, the steps for programmatically sending an email, testing email templates, configuring SPF records, and the possibility of using your own SMTP server.
Storefront Protection For Your Composable Storefront
Protecting online stores using Storefront Protection in SiteGenesis and SFRA is simple. But now that we have the Composable Storefront, we need to think about whether those protections still work. This blog post will talk about how to keep your Composable Storefront safe and what this new technology means for security.
Third-Party API Caching in Commerce Cloud
Enhancing the performance of applications that rely on third-party services is crucial in today’s digital environment. Numerous SFCC sites rely on APIs for accessing location data, weather information, or address verification, with varying degrees of performance stability. Understanding and applying caching for third-party services can enhance your application’s performance and cost-effectiveness.
The importance of Origin Shielding and your Commerce Cloud instance
Today, we’re exploring the crucial role of Origin Shielding in Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud. As online security becomes increasingly important (and always has been), we’ll look at what Origin Shielding (and Origin Locking) is. We will also share the steps involved in your projects.