Salesforce B2C commerce adapter

This article describes what the Salesforce B2C Commerce Adapter is and lists the benefits from using it. 

Salesforce B2C Commerce is referred to as Salesforce and the Salesforce B2C Commerce Adapter is referred to as the Salesforce Adapter in this article. 

About the adapter

The inriver Adapter for Salesforce B2C Commerce provides an easy-to-deploy and easy-to-manage solution for getting enriched and perfected marketing information from inriver PIM deployed into your Salesforce Commerce Cloud environment.

With the Salesforce adapter, you take full advantage of the flexibility provided by inriver PIM when customizing and optimizing your product offering, while seamlessly deploying it to your Salesforce Commerce Cloud solution - creating the best possible combination for a dynamic product offering and a flexible eCommerce that really works and boosts your business.

Adapter functionality

The integration between inriver and Salesforce is built up using two major components, the Salesforce Adapter running in inriver and the Cartridge executing inside the Salesforce environment.

The integration is built around the standard catalog import function that exists in Salesforce, which imports an XML file containing product data, and/or category assignments.

Content flow

The below illustration describes the inriver to Salesforce Commerce Cloud data flow. 

Benefits of using the adapter

• Enrich high-quality product information in inriver, providing a faster time-to-market for your products.
• Use a flexible inriver Elastic Data Model that changes and adapts to your business needs.
• Deploy data easily from inriver to Salesforce with the ready-to-go adapter.
• Publish products and resources seamlessly to Salesforce.

Feature list

For a list of what the Salesforce Adapter supports and some limitations, read this article.

Accessing the adapter

You must have a license agreement in place to download and use the adapter. Interested to learn more? Contact us here for more information.

Once you have a license you will be able to access the adapter download link in this article. Note! If no license is in place you will receive an error message when attempting to use the link. 

Further reading

Read this first: Inriver adapters

Get an inriver license to view below content:

• How to use the adapter
• Feature list
• Q&A
• Release notes
• Download (valid adapter license required to access)
• Only valid for Partners: Inriver adapter download links