Webinar 2020-12 Dec Bill Marcotte

Spartacus Webinar #7
December 2020 Update

Bill Marcotte, SAP
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About Bill Marcotte
Senior Product Manager
Responsible for Spartacus and Accelerator Storefronts
At SAP since 2013
Email: bill.marcotte@sap.com
or send me a message on our Spartacus slack

Last Spartacus Webinar:
October 2020
Find the recording at enable.cx microlearning.opensap
https://microlearning.opensap.com/tag/tagid/spartacus (“spartacus” tag)

Contents
▪ Brief Introduction to Spartacus

▪ Spartacus Resources Overview
▪ Support and Life Cycle << new
▪ What’s New Since Last Webinar
▪ Coming Soon / Roadmap
▪ 3.0 Feature Details
▪ Information on Upcoming Features
▪ Release History

Brief introduction to Spartacus
Spartacus allows you to quickly create a
storefront for SAP Commerce that is
FAST AND ENGAGING
A storefront that helps increase

CONVERSION AND REVENUE
What is Spartacus?
Spartacus is…
▪ A JavaScript storefront for SAP Commerce Cloud
▪ Built with Angular
▪ Decoupled, depends on SAP Commerce Cloud via OCC
▪ CMS-based
▪ Upgradable
▪ Extensible
▪ Brandable, with a modern style system
Open source
▪ Free to use!
▪ Free to fork source code, but don’t! ☺
Spartacus is upgradable due to use of Angular libraries

Important: “Decoupled, depends on APIs”
Requires SAP Commerce Cloud
APIs
Spartacus Storefront SAP Commerce Cloud
Frontend: Decoupled
All JavaScript, Commerce:
Runs in browser Runs on servers

Spartacus requires headless
SAP Commerce Cloud
What Headless (usually) means

▪ Backend server system(s) that are the source Spartacus Storefront
of truth for data
– Pricing Spartacus is one (important) front-end for your
– Product information headless commerce system
– Checking out
Reasons to go headless:
▪ Through decoupled, API calls
▪ Flexibility - be where the customer is
▪ But NOT RESPONSIBLE for front-end ▪ What if your customers are using Instagram
– Or Facebook
▫ Or Twitter
− Or Tik Tok
▪ Or what if you want to quickly make an in-store display
▪ Or…
Headless commerce gives you that flexibility

▪ All front-ends leads to your headless commerce system
SAP Commerce Cloud
Going Decoupled/Headless: Opening up Customer Touchpoints
Search Influencer
Engines Channels
Social
Media
Micro
Traditional Browser- Shops
Based Storefronts
Dedicated
SAP Commerce Cloud Apps
Decoupled
In-Store
Kiosks
?
Marketplaces Smart
Flexibility to add new
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Spartacus Goals
▪ Simplify and speed up storefront development

▪ Deliver a snappy, engaging browsing experience
▪ Like Accelerator, helps you to quickly get going with a storefront for
SAP Commerce Cloud…
▪ … unlike Accelerator, is upgradable – gain new features quickly as
the features are released

Spartacus Benefits
▪ Help increase conversion and revenue

– Anecdotal evidence at pwastats.com
▪ If your site is delightful and snappy:
– Customers start shopping while logged in more often
– Customers hang around your site longer
– Conversion rates go up
– Like a clean store with stocked shelves, customers build a good
impression of your brand and your ability to help them with what
they need
▪ Focus your development team on frontend
▪ Faster release cycles decoupled from platform
= faster, more frequent site refreshes with less risk

What about Accelerator?
Spartacus replaces Accelerator

▪ All new investment is in Spartacus
▪ All new SAP Commerce Cloud capabilities will be added to
Spartacus
When Spartacus has parity with Accelerator, Accelerator will be

deprecated and removed
▪ Deprecation date not official yet
▪ Removal would be 2 years after deprecation
▪ Support would end 2 years after that
Customers that want to continue using Accelerator can do so

by porting their JSP-based storefront forward themselves

Spartacus Resources
GitHub Repo
https://github.com/SAP/spartacus
You can fork the code from here

▪ but don’t! Use libraries instead

Spartacus Documentation
https://sap.github.io/spartacus-docs
Your source for:

▪ Release and roadmap information
▪ Getting started
▪ Links to videos
▪ Developer reference
▪ Older release documentation

News about Spartacus
General information, release announcements, dates for

upcoming Sparta-Town meetings
▪ Spartacus Slack Workspace
– https://join.slack.com/t/spartacus-storefront/shared_invite/
enQtNDM1OTI3OTMwNjU5LTg1NGVjZmFkZjQzODc1MzFhMjc3OTZmMzIzYzg0YjMwODJi
Y2YxYjA5MTE5NjVmN2E5NjMxNjEzMGNlMDRjMjU
▪ The link is also in the documentation
Receive announcements through Twitter:

▪ https://twitter.com/SpartacusSF

Spartacus Training
OpenSAP courses (https://open.sap.com/courses?q=Spartacus)

▪ Available now:
– Intro to Spartacus
– Routing
▪ Coming 2021
– CMS and Spartacus
Developer training courses

▪ Available Q1 2021
– Spartacus Developer Training
https://training.sap.com/course/c4h370-spartacus-ilt-developer-training-classroom-004-g-en

Support and Release Life Cycle
Official Support for Spartacus
Official support coming Q1 2021!
How to get support in the meantime

▪ Spartacus devs stand ready to help 18/5:
▪ Preferred contact method:
– Stack Overflow, tag spartacus-storefront
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/spartacus-storefront
▪ If you don’t get a response, contact Bill through Spartacus Slack

Spartacus and SAP Commerce Cloud Backend
Compatibility
Latest Spartacus release always supports latest supported

backend releases starting from 1905
▪ Example:
– Spartacus 3.0 to be released December 2020
– Spartacus 3.0 supports 2011, 2005, 1905
Previous Spartacus releases tested against backend releases

available at the time, but not tested against newer releases
▪ Example:
– Spartacus 2.1 (released August 2020) tested against 2005 and
1905
▫ And 99.9% sure 2011, as OCC APIs are backwards compatible
▪ Fixes for previous Spartacus releases against older backend
releases subject to support policy

Spartacus and Semantic Versioning
3.4.5
MAJOR MINOR PATCH
Patch Release Minor Release Major Release

▪ Example: 3.4.5 to 3.4.6 ▪ Example: 3.1.x to 3.2.0 ▪ Example: 3.x.x to 4.0.0
▪ Bug fixes only ▪ New features and bug fixes ▪ New features and bug fixes
– Also: usually move to new Angular
▪ Backwards compatible ✅ ▪ Backwards compatible ✅ framework major e.g. 10>11
▪ Should not cause problems to update ▪ Feature flag used if anything ▪ NOT backwards compatible ❌
breaking is introduced
▪ To help migration:
▪ Should not cause problems to – Schematics added
update, unless you turn on a feature – Breaking changes documented
flag
▪ Feature flag not used
▪ Deprecated code removed

Spartacus Libraries Patch Policy
Summary
1. Bug fixes for latest major.minor release supported

− Weekly patch fixes published
2. Bug fixes for previous latest major.minor conditionally supported
on a case-by-case basis
− Such as a critical security issue
• If feasible
• If the fix does not break backwards compatibility
• If the fix does not require update of Angular
− The fix will be published as a new patch release as needed
3. Older releases not supported – update your libraries
− Though we will help with questions on previous releases
− Bug fixes fixes will be subject to the policy described above
− We will always ask you to update your libraries
“Roll forward” strongly recommended

▪ Update libraries as a regular task in your dev process

Example 1
If:
▪ 3.5.1 is latest release
▪ 3.4.5 is previous minor for current major
▪ 2.1.4 is latest minor from previous major
▪ ... and a (backwards compatible) bug fix is ready
Then:
▪ The bug fix will be published to 3.5.2
– (The bug fix will not be added to 3.4.5)
▪ The bug fix may be published to previous major as 2.1.5
– if the problem is serious enough
– if backwards compatible
– if feasible

Example 2
If:
▪ 3.5.2 is latest release
▪ 3.4.5 is previous minor for current major
▪ 2.1.5 is latest minor from previous major
▪ … and
– a (backwards compatible) new feature is ready
– a (backwards compatible) bug fix is ready
Then
▪ New feature and bug fix are published in 3.6.0
▪ Bug fix is published to 3.5.3
– 3.5.3 is EOL – no longer supported
– New bug fixes will be published to 3.6.x only
– Customers strongly urged to move to 3.6.0

Status now and after 3.0 is released
Current support as of Dec 10, 2020 (3.0 still RC)

Type of Release Version Patch Support Dev Assistance
Latest major 2.1.4 Full Full
Previous major 1.5.9 Critical, feasible fixes only Full
Older majors None None Limited - basic help only
Release Candidates 3.0 None Limited – related to new
release only
Support after 3.0 is released

Type of Release Version Patch Support Dev Assistance
Latest major will be 3.0.0 Full Full
Previous major will be 2.1.4 (or .5) Critical, feasible fixes only Full
Older majors will be 1.5.9 None Limited - basic help only
Release Candidates 3.1 None Limited – related to new
eventually release only
“Roll forward” strongly recommended

▪ Update libraries as a regular task in your dev process

What’s New Since Last Webinar
More Pre-Release 3.0 Libraries Published
3.0-next.4 – 3.0-rc.3 Coming Very Soon

▪ Powertools Storefront Support ▪ Directionality CSS completion ▪ Final release!
▪ B2B Checkout ▪ Angular 10
– with B2B-related order details ▪ Session Management
updates through the storefront
▪ Commerce Org
– with support units, users, budgets,
cost centers, spend limits, and
approvals
– Lazy loading of the module for
better storefront performance
▪ B2B Scheduled Replenishment

Coming Soon / Roadmap
Spartacus Roadmap Q4 2020 – Q2 2021
Continued focus on parity and architecture
Special focus on B2B
B2C & B2B

Architectural Accessibility
Accelerator
Excellence Support
Feature Parity
SAP Product Industry PWA and Mobile

Integrations Accelerators Experience

Spartacus roadmap Q4-2020 to Q2-2021
Q4 2020 Q1 2021 (3.x releases) Q2 2021 and Later (3.x and 4.x releases)
B2B 3.0: • B2B Registration • B2B Saved Carts • B2B Inventory Display • B2B Future Stock 2
• B2B Powertools Store • B2B Bulk Pricing • B2B Reorder • B2B Quick Order • B2B Commerce Quotes 2
• B2B Checkout • B2B Multi- • B2B Import Products • B2B Multi-D Order Grid • B2B Order Form Builder
• B2B Scheduled Replenishment Dimensional Products • B2B Export Cart
• B2B Commerce Org
B2C/Core 3.0: • Image Zoom • ASM Customer Lists

• Directionality (RTL) CSS Support • Configurable Bundles 1 • ASM Search Autocomplete
• Pick up in Store • ASM Anonymous Cart Binding
• Potential Promotions Display • Cart Validation 2
• Home page for My Account • Back to Top
Architecture 3.0: • Dynamic Theme Selection • Lazy loading / code splitting to • Angular Framework Update
• Angular 10 • B2C/B2B in one app existing modules (performance • Fine-Grained Extensibility
• Session Management • Lazy loading / code splitting to existing improvement) • Site Map
• Lazy Loading for Commerce modules (performance improvement) • Tag Management Service • Global Messages Improvements
Organization (provides • New events for Events Service • Google Tag Manager support and Extensibility
performance improvements) • New events for Events Service
Integrations 3.1: • SAP Digital Payments • Accessibility Screen Reader Support

• Variant Configuration of Complex • SAP Entitlement Management
Products Phase 1
3.x
• Customer Data Cloud (Gigya)
Authentication/Consent Support
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All Spartacus B2B features require SAP Commerce Cloud 2005, some features require later releases. Please check the release no tes. 33
1 Requires OCC APIs planned for 2011 release • 2 Requires OCC APIs planned for 2105 release • 3 Requires OCC APIs in future release, not yet planned
Release 3.0 Feature Details
Demonstrations of all
features have been demo’d
in previous webinars
Look for new videos on
all features early 2021
(especially B2B Commerce Org)
B2B Powertools Store
B2B Powertools Store
Spartacus support for

Powertools sample store
New Spartacus configuration

“B2bStorefrontModule”
A few OCC calls are different
Backend must be 2005 or later
Designed with OCC property

“overlapping paths” set to true
▪ Allows B2B and B2C OCC APIs
to work on same backend at
same time
Requires SAP Commerce Cloud 2005

B2B Checkout
B2B Checkout
Overview
Similar to B2C Checkout,

with these differences:
▪ Can set a purchase order #
▪ Can choose to pay by
Account or Credit Card
– Steps change dynamically
depending on payment
method chosen
– Payment types are
defined in backend

B2B Checkout
Overview
If paying by Account –
Cost Center & Shipping Address
▪ Can select cost center
▪ Shipping addresses available to the
buyer depend on the selected cost
center
– Can’t add/edit shipping addresses
– Shipping addresses derive from unit
the cost center is assigned to
▪ Delivery mode same as B2C
▪ No payment details step
– Invoice to be sent later to company

B2B Checkout
Overview
If paying by Account –
Review & Submit
▪ Streamlined summary
accommodates different
payment types
▪ Buyer can go back and
change anything

B2B Checkout
Overview
If paying by Credit Card –

Same steps as B2C
▪ Shipping address
– Can add/edit shipping addresses
– Not associated with units
▪ Delivery mode
▪ Payment details
▪ Review

B2B Checkout
Overview
If paying by Credit Card –

Review & Submit
▪ Uses redesigned summary
▪ Now displays billing address

B2B Checkout
How does B2B checkout relate to B2B Commerce Org?
Cost centers and units More Commerce Org info in following slides…
▪ Cost centers are assigned to units
nit
▪ Setting cost center allows for later spend reporting A unit is any company, subdivision, region,
group, or one part of physical store
Account Manager defined on
seller side, can t modif
y
▪ The budget assigned to the cost center sets upper limit Shipping
sers can be organi ed into
Addresses
of all purchases against that budget uring B2B Checkout,
sers groups to assign permission
to many users at once
– Same budget can be assigned to multiple cost centers

buyer chooses a cost
center he unit the cost Cost Centers Admins ser roups
center is assigned to
determines the possible
Approvers
shipping addresses
Budgets
Managers
Cost centers and shipping addresses Child Child Child

Customers (Buyers) Permissions
(Purchase hresholds)
nit nit nit
▪ Shipping addresses are assigned to units
nits assigned approves
Buyers can also be assigned
their dedicated approver
Child nits
▪ Cost centers are assigned to units

▪ Selecting cost center defines where a purchase can be
shipped, depending on what was selected
Purchase order number

▪ Saved with the order, for tracking and payment purposes
▪ Not set with Commerce Org
B2B Scheduled Replenishment
B2B Scheduled Replenishment When placing an order, allow customer to
create a repeating scheduled order
Overview (instead of placing the order immediately)

B2B Scheduled Replenishment
Frequency options
Every # days Every # weeks Every month, on a day

B2B Commerce Organization
Also known as “My Company”

Overview of Commerce Organization (“My Company”)
For the customer: Self-service spend management Organized with:

▪ Units: Companies, regions, stores, etc.
For the vendor: Customer-specific pricing and support ▪ Users: Buyers, approvers, administrators, etc.
▪ Cost centers, budgets, purchase limits
Order
automatically
approved
Buyer is assigned Order created Order processed Spending tracked
spending permissions Cost Center and controlled
and PO# through buyer name,
unit, cost center, budget
Spending permissions
defined through self-service
Order held,
by buying company admin
assigned to
designated approver

B2B Commerce Organization
also known as My Company
Available in
pre-release
3.0-next.2
Customers can:
▪ Organize buyers
▪ Track spend
▪ Limit purchases
▪ Require approvals
Sellers can:
▪ Assign specific pricing to units
▪ Assign specific people to units
– For support requests
– For quote requests
▫ Spartacus support for quotes
coming 2021

B2B Commerce Organization for Spartacus
Self-service management for customer organizations
Primarily aimed at letting companies

give their employees controlled
permission to make purchases
▪ Self-serve
▪ Examples
– Company allows employees to
spend $100/month on office
technologies
– Hospitals provide budget for staff to
order their own uniforms

All the functionality needed to let your

customer manage spending in their
organization
▪ Units (for regions, divisions)
▪ Users and roles
▪ Shipping addresses
▪ Cost centers and budgets
▪ Purchase limits
▪ Approval process

Approvers view and approve/reject order requests through

Spartacus storefront
▪ Approval workflows controlled by SAP Commerce Cloud
▪ Purchases can be auto-approved or require approval

All B2B features require SAP Commerce 2005 unless otherwise noted

Approval demo

All B2B features require SAP Commerce 2005 unless otherwise noted

Angular 10
Angular 10.1
▪ Changes Angular framework used by Spartacus to Angular 10.1

▪ Changes TypeScript to version 3.9
▪ Other related library dependencies also updated
▪ Schematics also updated
▪ Always benefits, there are
– See https://medium.com/better-programming/angular-10-new-features-dbc779061dc8
– and https://www.infoworld.com/article/3537449/whats-new-in-angular-10.html
Angular 10
available since
pre-release
3.0-next.1!

Session Management
Identity Provider Support
with Improved Session Management
Improvements to sessions management:

▪ Help separate OCC API integration from core Spartacus code
▪ Allowing use of adapters and connectors
▪ Making it easier to add your own Identity Provider
New session management will:

▪ Improve security
▪ Reduce friction in the authentication and login user experience

Information on Upcoming Features
B2B Registration
B2B Registration
Allows potential customers to request access to

restricted B2B site
What’s different from B2C/Core:

▪ Requests information such as company, address,
phone, and position
▪ Customers are not granted login permission
automatically (ootb SAP Commerce Cloud behavior)
– Seller representative approves and assigns the
customer to a unit

B2B Bulk Pricing Display
B2B Bulk Pricing Display
▪ Displays bulk pricing table on

Product Details page
▪ isplays “Volume Pricing Available”
in search results, for products that
have bulk pricing defined
▪ Actual pricing for volume purchases

currently already supported in cart
and checkout
▪ Bulk pricing is defined in SAP
Commerce Cloud backend

B2B Multi-Dimensional Products
Standard Support
B2B Multi-Dimensional Products
Standard support for multi-dimensional products

throughout B2B Spartacus
▪ Search results: one example of multi-dimensional product
▪ Product Details page: one multi-dimensional product; variants
available through menus, color boxes, and other methods
▪ Cart: Multi-dimensional product displayed as individual item (not
grouped)
– Change quantity and remove multi-dimensional products from
cart
▪ Order details: As individual multi-dimensional products
▪ UX for multi-dimensional products is same as variants support
(as seen with Apparel store)
Order grid for multi-dimensional products and grouping to come in Q2-Q3 2021

Variant Configuration for Spartacus
Formerly known as “CPQ”

(which is now associated with Callidus)
Variant Configuration for Spartacus
Enables single- and multi-level configurable products

▪ Configuration page with the most commonly used characteristic
types such as radio buttons, checkboxes, and images for
characteristic values
▪ Price summary at the bottom of the configuration page with the base
price, the price of the selected options, and the overall total price of
the configured product
▪ Overview page with all user selections accessible at any time during
configuration
Scheduled for Spartacus 3.1

▪ Soon after 3.0

Dynamic Theme and Config Selection
Dynamic Theme Selection
Allows Spartacus to
change style/theme
based on base site

Dynamic B2B/B2C Configuration Selection
Allows one instance of

Spartacus to work with
both B2C and B2B
base sites
In 3.0, a separate Spartacus app
with B2B-specific configuration is
required for B2B sites

New Events for the Event Service
New Events for the Event Service
Events Service added in 2.0 release

EVENT
▪ Allows visitor site personalization and
enhancement of the relevance of the displayed
product mix, by listening to customer journey
Events to be added:
▪ Search suggestion event
▪ Facet change event
▪ Logout event
▪ Login event
More to come in future releases

Lazy Loading of Existing Modules
Boosts Performance
Lazy Loading of Existing Modules
Lazy Loading boosts performance

▪ The concept: Only load code as needed
Lazy Loading framework was added in 2.0

▪ Support for CMS component lazy loading added then
▪ B2B My Company (for 3.0) built lazy-loaded from start
Existing modules will be split to allow lazy loading

▪ Examples:
– ASM module not needed unless customer rep is using the storefront and
adds ?asm=true to URL
– Store Locator not needed until customer clicks the Store Locator button
▪ Less code to load = boost in performance, less hits to server
▪ Changes to be rolled out over multiple releases

Customer Data Cloud (CDC)
Formerly known as “ igya”

Formerly known as Gigya
Identify and engage customers Build trusted based on Deliver trusted digital
across channels and devices transparency and user’s own experiences based on first-
through single-sign on control of data party knowledge
▪ Registration-as-a-service ▪ Self-service preference and consent ▪ Customer data store
▪ SSO, social (35+ providers), Management ▪ Profile orchestration and governance
federated authentication, and more ▪ Terms of Service and opt-in ▪ Customer insights
▪ Conditional workflows management
https://www.sap.com/products/crm/customer-data-management.html

Integration with Spartacus
▪ Localized forms
▪ Social registration and login
▪ Optional risk-based
authentication rules possible
▪ Profile synchronization
between CDC and
Commerce Cloud
▪ Consent management
Final Spartacus library

release planned for Nov
▪ May or may not be exactly
with 3.0 release
▪ Pre-release out now

B2B Saved Carts
B2B Saved Carts
Ability to save a cart for later use

▪ You continue with an empty cart
▪ Can name and give a description to saved cart
Display list of saved carts

▪ Add individual products to cart
▪ Swap entire saved cart with current active cart

B2B Re-Order
B2B Re-Order
Ability to start a new cart based on a existing order

▪ Existing cart is saved or merged, depending on user selection

Tag Management Service
Tag Management Service
A generic framework in Spartacus for tagging and collecting

Spartacus site pages, components, and code data
▪ For use in marketing and tracking
▪ Tag Manager tools such as Google Tag Manager can hook into the
framework and grab data needed for further processing
Benefits:
▪ Improves behavior analysis and personalization opportunities
through the ability to tag Spartacus pages, components, and code
▪ Provides easier integration for seller site development by enabling
Spartacus to integrate with the tag managers they are using

Angular Framework Update
Summary
▪ Spartacus usually moves to next Angular major twice a year
▪ Coincides with new Spartacus major due to breaking changes
▪ Minor or patch updates to Angular are included as part of Spartacus
minor or patch releases
Plans for 2021

▪ Move to Angular 11 with Spartacus 4.0 (Q1-Q2 2021)
▪ Move to Angular 12 with Spartacus 5.0 (Q3-Q4 2021)
Plans can change depending on the importance of what is being introduced

into Angular framework

Changes to Angular usually include:

▪ Coding and performance improvements
▪ Update of TypeScript
Other changes we make at the same time:

▪ Other related library dependencies updated
▪ Schematics updated

Fine-Grained Extensibility
Fine-Grained Extensibility
Allows control and extensibility of templates in a more natural

way, in fewer steps
Benefits
▪ Faster, less complex development
▪ Reduce pain points for extending complex components like product
list or cart item component
▪ Improves time to market by allowing developers to modify only part
of a component or page instead of replacing entire components
▪ Reduces time and complexity to upgrade Spartacus libraries,
especially new major releases

Spartacus Release History
https://sap.github.io/spartacus-docs/release-information
Summary of Releases 3.0
Release 3.0
December ??, 2020 (scheduled for week of Dec14)
▪ Powertools Storefront Support
▪ B2B Checkout
– with B2B-related order details updates through the
storefront
▪ B2B Commerce Org
– with support units, users, budgets, cost centers, spend
limits, and approvals
– Lazy loading of the module for better storefront
performance
▪ B2B Scheduled Replenishment
▪ Directionality CSS completion
▪ Angular 10
▪ Session Management

Summary of Releases 2.0-2.1
Release 2.0 Release 2.1

June 3, 2020 August 27, 2020
▪ Directionality (core support)
▪ Angular 9
▪ Style Library Versioning
▪ Lazy Loading (core support)
▪ Event Service
– Add to cart event
▪ Accessibility Keyboarding
▪ State Persistence service
▪ Custom Angular URL matching
▪ Extensibility improvements

Release 1.4 Release 1.5

January 27, 2020 February 26, 2020
▪ Variants and Apparel Store
▪ Wish List
▪ Context-Driven Services support
▪ Back-in-Stock Notification
▪ Customer Coupons
▪ Cancellations and returns
▪ Selective Cart (aka Save for Later)
– requires SAP Commerce 2005 release
▪ Skip Links (Accessibility feature)
▪ Token Revocation
▪ Applied Promotions improvements
▪ Performance improvements
– Product loading scopes
– Deferred Loading
– Above-the-Fold Loading
– CMS component data loading optimization
▪ Stacked Outlets
▪ Updates to cart handling

Release 1.1 Release 1.2 Release 1.3

August 29, 2019 September 30, 2019 November 18, 2019
▪ Feature Flags ▪ Routing Migration ▪ Context Auto-Detection
▪ Configurable OCC Endpoints ▪ Angular Update to 8.2.5 – For language, currency, and other
(+ associated dependencies) settings
▪ Beta of Schematics library
▪ Guest Checkout ▪ Qualtrics Integration
▪ Change to registration flow (must
provide login information after ▪ Express Checkout ▪ Schematics library official
registration) ▪ Storefinder ▪ ASM Customer Emulation
▪ Consignment Tracking – With customer search and session
timer
▪ Infinite Scroll
▪ Anonymous Consent
▪ Early Login
▪ Coupons

Spartacus Release History
https://sap.github.io/cloud-commerce-spartacus-storefront-docs/release-information
Spartacus 1.0 Launch (July 4, 2019)

Architecture and Development Features Customer-Facing Features
▪ Open source ▪ Multi-site and site context ▪ Home
▪ Upgradable ▪ SmartEdit and ▪ Authentication
▪ Extendable Personalization support ▪ Search
▪ Configurable ▪ Configurable routing ▪ Categories
▪ Styling variables ▪ SEO Attributes ▪ Product Details
▪ Scalable ▪ SSR Support ▪ Cart & Checkout
▪ PWA ▪ Localization ▪ Order Details
▪ CMS driven ▪ SAP CP Extension ▪ Account mgmt.
Factory support ▪ Add to Home
▪ Responsive Design
New APIs added to SAP Commerce 2005 (released May 2020)
Release 2005 has new APIs Release 2005 includes OCC as extensions
▪ Cancellations and Returns ▪ OCC as addons still included
▪ Commerce Org (My Company) ▪ But default CX recipe uses extensions
▪ ASM improvements ▪ … see release notes
▪ … see release notes
What this means
Latest Spartacus works with 1905 and 2005 ▪ Default OCC API call is /occ/v2
▪ One restriction: APIs available in backend ▪ If you use OCC addons, it’s /rest/v2
▪ Examples:
– 2005 has Cancel/Returns API
▫ so if using 2 0+2005, Spartacus Cancel/Returns ☑️
– 1905 does not have Cancel/Returns API
▫ so if using 2 0+1905, can’t offer Cancel/Returns

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