Uniform

1.0
E-commerce
Developed by Uniform
Akeneo PIM compatibility
Enterprise Edition (SaaS) Supported
Enterprise Edition (PaaS)
6.0
Growth Edition Supported
Community Edition
6.0
Uniform Systems, Inc.
compatibility
Extension type
App
More info
Extension version
1.0
Price: Free

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

  1. Uniform account and at least one project created. Start for free here.

Key capabilities

  1. Bring the product catalog data from Akeneo into your presentation components and build single product display components and product lists.
  2. Ability to connect assets from Akeneo to your presentation components (single or multi-selection).
  3. Mix product data & assets with marketing content from any 15 Headless Content Management Systems Uniform supports.
  4. Personalize and A/B test components that leverage product catalog data and assets from Akeneo.
  5. Accelerate your project with a pre-integrated commerce starter.

Learn more here.

Initial release

  1. Product Selector parameter type
  2. Asset Selector parameter type
  3. Ability to filter data by channel
  4. Ability to select product variations in addition to products.
  5. Ability to filter by category.

Prerequisites

  • Uniform account and at least one project created. Start for free here.

Step 1: Add Akeneo integration to your Uniform project.

  1. Open your Uniform project.
  2. Go to Integrations → Commerce.
  3. Find the Akeneo integration and add it to the project.
  4. The settings screen will be shown. We will use the values from Step 2 here.

Step 2: Install the Uniform app from the marketplace.

  1. Locate the Uniform app in the Akeneo App store.
  2. Click Connect
  3. Review the required permissions (view only), click Allow and Next
  4. Review which Category trees, Locales, and Attributes Groups you would like the app to access, or simply tick All.
  5. Click Confirm.
  6. The last screen will show two values you need to complete the configuration: Url and Token.
  7. Copy-paste these values into the integration settings screen within your Uniform project and select Auth Type = Application.
  8. 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

  1. Open Canvas → Component library.
  2. Create a component.
  3. Add a new parameter.
  4. You have two parameter types to choose from with Akeneo integration:
    1. Akeneo Product Selector: allows selecting products, or variants from your product catalog.
    2. Akeneo Asset Selector: allows selecting assets from your Akeneo instance.
  5. Add the component to any desired composition.
  6. Now, you can create new compositions with the components that connect to your data in Akeneo.

Step 4: Wire up the front-end

  1. Clone the following repository on Github and follow the readme to finish the setup.