Uniform
Description
Launch fast personalized shopping experiences managed using no-code tools for business users. Unlimited front-end freedom for developers that incorporates marketing content from a headless CMS of your choice & deployed to your preferred CDN/delivery platform.
Empower business teams
Give merchandisers and marketers complete control over experience creation. No-code tools make it easy to build compelling omnichannel commerce experiences without requiring developers.
Composable commerce with Akeneo PIM
Connect PIM content with marketing content from a headless CMS, leverage customer context from CDPs, and connect the stack to modern front-end tooling and fast edge-based content delivery to serve hyper-contextual shopping experiences in milliseconds around the globe.
Easy, fast personalization
Add high-performance personalization to your commerce experiences to improve conversion without slowing page load times. A/B test messaging and analyze effectiveness using your preferred analytics tools.
Prerequisites
- Uniform account and at least one project created. Start for free here.
Key capabilities
- Bring the product catalog data from Akeneo into your presentation components and build single product display components and product lists.
- Ability to connect assets from Akeneo to your presentation components (single or multi-selection).
- Mix product data & assets with marketing content from any 15 Headless Content Management Systems Uniform supports.
- Personalize and A/B test components that leverage product catalog data and assets from Akeneo.
- Accelerate your project with a pre-integrated commerce starter.
Learn more here.
Release notes
Initial release
- Product Selector parameter type
- Asset Selector parameter type
- Ability to filter data by channel
- Ability to select product variations in addition to products.
- Ability to filter by category.
Documentation
Prerequisites
- Uniform account and at least one project created. Start for free here.
Step 1: Add Akeneo integration to your Uniform project.
- Open your Uniform project.
- Go to Integrations → Commerce.
- Find the Akeneo integration and add it to the project.
- The settings screen will be shown. We will use the values from Step 2 here.
Step 2: Install the Uniform app from the marketplace.
- Locate the Uniform app in the Akeneo App store.
- Click Connect
- Review the required permissions (view only), click Allow and Next
- Review which Category trees, Locales, and Attributes Groups you would like the app to access, or simply tick All.
- Click Confirm.
- The last screen will show two values you need to complete the configuration: Url and Token.
- Copy-paste these values into the integration settings screen within your Uniform project and select Auth Type = Application.
- Click Test to confirm you can connect to your Akeneo instance and Save. Optionally, you can select a default channel to be used when reading your product data.
Step 3: Start creating components sourcing data from Akeneo
- Open Canvas → Component library.
- Create a component.
- Add a new parameter.
- You have two parameter types to choose from with Akeneo integration:
- Akeneo Product Selector: allows selecting products, or variants from your product catalog.
- Akeneo Asset Selector: allows selecting assets from your Akeneo instance.
- Add the component to any desired composition.
- Now, you can create new compositions with the components that connect to your data in Akeneo.
Step 4: Wire up the front-end
- Clone the following repository on Github and follow the readme to finish the setup.