The Catalog Storefront APIs are a collection of resources for managing storefront categories, currencies, price lists, products, and product search. This controls how the products in your catalog are organized and displayed on the storefront. See the Catalog user guides for information about the related features in the Unified Commerce Admin.
Some tips for using different resources of the Catalog Storefront APIs:
- Use the Currencies resource to retrieve exchange rates for displaying prices on your storefront.
- Use the Storefront Categories resource to view the product category hierarchy as it appears to shoppers who are browsing the storefront. The hierarchy can be returned as a flat list or as a category tree.
- Use the Pricelists resource to retrieve the details of a price list. The details may contain a hierarchy of ancestor and/or descendant price lists depending on your configuration.
- Use the Storefront Products resource to manage the shopper product selection process during a visit to the web storefront. You can update product options as shoppers pick and choose their product choices. A shopper cannot add a product to a cart until all of its required options have been selected.
- Use the Product Search resource to provide dynamic search results to shoppers as they browse and search for products on the web storefront, and to suggest possible search terms as the shopper enters text. The related Search Redirect resource allows you to retrieve any search redirect items.