Salesforce B2B Commerce Cloud - Technical terms - Blog - 03

                                           

Basic Interview Questions Answers - Salesforce B2B Commerce Cloud - Part 3

                                                 

This is my third post related to Salesforce B2B Commerce Cloud. In my previous post, I have explained different types of Price Books, Products, Product Media, Product Variation, Search Feature, Facets, Search Indexing.

1. Explain Store in B2B Commerce.

• Stores are containers for all your commerce data, including catalogs, categories, price books, products etc.
• All B2B Stores uses Experience Cloud, sites for the frontend buying experience to showcase your products, arrange information for buyers process order.
• To make products available, assign them to categories, assign those categories to a catalog with a Store.
• To give your buyers access to your Store, add them to a buyer group and associate that group with a Store.
• Create standard prices for products or negotiate special prices for certain buyer groups. You can associate price books with a group or directly with the Store.
• To specify which products are available to a buyer group, assign them an entitlement policy.

2. What is an Order ?

• These are list of purchased products.

3. What is B2B Commerce Template ?

• It is collection of pages and components designed to help you create a beautiful buyer experience.
• Use our styles & layouts with your images and info to showcase your products.
• Give buyers an easy path to browsing, adding products to a cart, checking out, arranging delivery, tracking their orders.

4. Explain Pricing Strategy in B2B Commerce.

• It allows you to choose between Best Price and Priority Price to determine which price your buyers see.
• A buyer can be a member of multiple buyer group or there can be multiple price books assigned to a buyer group or Store, which means that there can be multiple price books assigned to a single buyer.
• When there are multiple prices available to the same user, there are a couple of ways to determine which price takes priority.
• You can choose to set the pricing strategy based on the best price or a predetermined priority.
• Best Price
• Price Price

5. Explain Best Price and Priority Price. 

Best Price : It assigns the lowest possible price available in all assigned price book.

Price Price : It assigns prices in the order you prioritize price books within a buyer group.

6. Explain Cart in B2B Commerce.

• It shows list of products that buyer has selected.
• Only buyers who are entitled to access associated data can view the component.
• Buyers with read access to carts can create, clear and delete carts. They can also add, edit, delete items in carts.
• When a buyer creates a cart, the cart's currency cant be changed. So, if there is a currency change on buyer's account, the buyer must clear the cart in progress and start a new cart with changed currency.

7. Explain Quick Order in B2B Commerce.

• It allows a buyers to rapidly order known products.
• Only the users who are entitled to access associated data can view it.

8. CMS Workspace.

• It is used to create and organize collections.
• Contributors can organize uploaded media files into collections.
• They can also add new content and create custom content types like banners, products announcements etc. with ManagedContentType in Metadata API.

9. Name change in B2B Classic and B2B Lightning.

 B2B CLASSIC          B2B LIGHTNING

Price List                        Price Book

Wishlist                          Lists

Account Group              Buyer Group

Tiered Pricing                Price Adjustment Schedules

10. What is Price Adjustment Schedule ?

• It is used to create a tiered pricing structure for your buyers.