Developer Tutorials Overview

commercetools platform tutorials

These tutorials shall help you to get familiar with the commercetools platform and its underlying concepts enabling you to master the platform's capabilities. Our tutorials focus on typical e-commerce use cases you would like to realize with the commercetools platform.

This section covers API and platform level tutorials targeted at developers. Merchant Center users can find step-by-step guides in the Merchant Center Documentation Section.

Getting Started with the platform

For you being able to try out the tutorials you need to have access to a commercetools platform account. How you can get your commercetools platform account is described in Getting Started. After that you should be able to do your first steps with the API along the HTTP API Tutorial.

Getting Started with cURL

Products and ProductTypes

How to handle structured and nested product data

Custom Types and Fields

How to customize standard objects, like Customer, Channel, etc.
How to customize product prices with additional fields

Assets

How to add and use assets to save links to images, videos and pdfs

Review Ratings

How to use reviews to rate products or channels

Mobile and Browser Endpoints

Using the API with mobile apps or browser apps

Guest Checkout

Using Anonymous Sessions for Guest Checkout

API Extensions

Implementing an API Extension

Subscriptions

Handling Subscriptions

Shipping Methods

How to use predicates on Shipping Methods
How to use tiered shipping rates on Shipping Methods

Store and Product Selections

How to populate a store specific external search

Multiple Shipping Addresses

Use Multiple Shipping Addresses

OrderEdits

Use OrderEdits

Best Practices

Performance Tips

Product Modeling

Product Data Modeling Guide

ImpEx

The commercetools platform provides us with a set of commands we can easily use with the web browser without installing additional software or coding something. To use these tools, you have to sign in with your commercetools platform account you've created before.

The following screenshot shows the login page, main page and the tool list of the ImpEx.

ImpEx is a user interface application for several IMPort and EXport tools accessible from the Commands menu. ImpEx tools are used for

importing and exporting details related to products, category, customer, etc .. from one project to another or
to be used with other tools of your choice, like a spreadsheet editor, etc.
to publish or unpublish products
to bulk update or delete products

All the tools provided in ImpEx are also available as command-line tools on GitHub to be installed on your environment.