How to define a "digital" sellable item in Sitecore Commerce

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I am trying to create a Digital based product in Sitecore Commerce, where the product can be fulfilled via digital means (e.g email).

Based on my testing via postman using Habitat Catalog(see below), it appears that a fulfillment type for a cart is directly related to the Sellable items added on the cart.

But in the Sitecore Commerce Business tool, I can't find a way to configure the sellable item's fulfillment type/options to digital.

Does anyone know how the logic works and how to configure it? Thanks in advance

Testing via Postman

1. Digital Product Example

1a. Postman - Add Cart Line with Variant Product: Habitat_Master|6042986|56042986 -- Habitat Gift Cards ($25)

Url: {{ServiceHost}}/{{ShopsApi}}/AddCartLine()

Body:

{
    "cartId":"TestCart01",
    "itemId": "Habitat_Master|6042986|56042986",
    "quantity": 1
}

1b. Postman - Get cart fulfillment options

Url: {{ServiceHost}}/{{ShopsApi}}/GetCartFulfillmentOptions(cartId='TestCart01')

Response:

{
    "@odata.context": "https://localhost:5000/Api/$metadata#FulfillmentOptions",
    "value": [
        {
            "CompositeKey": null,
            "CreatedBy": null,
            "UpdatedBy": null,
            "DateCreated": "2019-06-27T03:24:56.3161735Z",
            "DateUpdated": "2019-06-27T03:24:56.3161735Z",
            "DisplayName": "Digital",
            "FriendlyId": null,
            "Id": "3878b502-85ac-41b5-9203-e0f8712a854b",
            "Version": 0,
            "EntityVersion": 1,
            "Published": true,
            "IsPersisted": false,
            "Name": "Digital",
            "Policies": [],
            "FulfillmentType": "Digital",
            "Enabled": false,
            "Provider": null,
            "CostType": null,
            "Cost": null
        }
    ]
}

2. Physical Product Example

2a. Postman - Add Cart Line with Variant

Product: Habitat_Master|6042963|56042963 -- Habitat Sentinel Touchscreen Thermostat

Url: {{ServiceHost}}/{{ShopsApi}}/AddCartLine()

Body:

{
    "cartId":"TestCart02",
    "itemId": "Habitat_Master|6042963|56042963",
    "quantity": 1
}

2b. Postman - Get cart fulfillment options

Url: {{ServiceHost}}/{{ShopsApi}}/GetCartFulfillmentOptions(cartId='TestCart02')

Response:

{
    "@odata.context": "https://localhost:5000/Api/$metadata#FulfillmentOptions",
    "value": [
        {
            "CompositeKey": null,
            "CreatedBy": null,
            "UpdatedBy": null,
            "DateCreated": "2019-06-27T03:24:56.3421052Z",
            "DateUpdated": "2019-06-27T03:24:56.3421052Z",
            "DisplayName": "Ship items",
            "FriendlyId": null,
            "Id": "3817f8d5-994b-4fbc-8bbe-4c342ec7553a",
            "Version": 0,
            "EntityVersion": 1,
            "Published": true,
            "IsPersisted": false,
            "Name": "Ship items",
            "Policies": [],
            "FulfillmentType": "ShipToMe",
            "Enabled": false,
            "Provider": null,
            "CostType": null,
            "Cost": null
        }
    ]
}

Answer 1

If you want to mark your product as digital, you need to add any tag to the product or product variant from list below:

• OnlineTraining
• OnlineLearning
• Subscription
• DigitalSubscription

Read my blog post about that:

https://www.brimit.com/blog/sitecore-commerce-9-how-to-override-policy