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This Help Center provides documentation on all aspects of the HCL Commerce+ product, from installation and deployment to operating and customization.
Operating
The topics in this section focus on tasks that are performed by business users, marketers, and customer support representatives to connect with partners and attract and satisfy customers.
Business Tools
Commerce+ allows you to manage various business tools such as Promotions, Catalog, Promotions, Inventory, and so on. Users accessing at least one business tool can see the Business Tools menu. The user can see tools that are accessible to the current user.
Marketing Tool
Use the Marketing tool in the Commerce Lab to create and manage marketing campaigns and other store content, excluding catalog content. You can use the extensive precision marketing features in the tool to deliver targeted marketing messages to customers.
Managing e-Marketing Spots
Marketing Managers create and manage e-Marketing Spots to ensure store pages are filled with relevant, compelling images, and information.
Creating an e-Marketing Spot
Create an e-Marketing Spot to reserve an area on a store web page to display marketing information to customers. You can then create web activities to specify what to display in the e-Marketing Spot.
Prerequisites for creating an e-Marketing Spot for a Next.js Store
Before you can create an e-Marketing Spot for a Next.js store, you must complete the prerequsite tasks.

Documentation
This Help Center provides documentation on all aspects of the HCL Commerce+ product, from installation and deployment to operating and customization.
- Overview
  Welcome to the HCL Commerce+ overview. Explore these feature overviews to learn how Commerce+ operates. Refer to the related links listed at the end of each topic to access expanded product documentation.
- Deploying
  This section provides details on deploying HCL Commerce+. It explains how to download the Docker images and Git bundles that comprise the product, how to create a minimal environment, and how to plan for a full deployment. It details supported software versions, patches, and configurations to ensure the platform performs well.
- Migrating
  The following topics show how to migrate an existing HCL Commerce Version 9.1 environment to Commerce+. The process consists of an initial migration of your database contents. This is followed by a code migration. Both are fully described.
- Operating
  The topics in this section focus on tasks that are performed by business users, marketers, and customer support representatives to connect with partners and attract and satisfy customers.
  - Commerce Lab
    Accessible through a web-based interface, Commerce Lab enables users to manage all key aspects of their commerce operations, including catalogs, marketing, pricing, users, stores, customers, workspaces, sellers, and administrative functions—empowering teams with greater flexibility and control.
  - Business Tools
    Commerce+ allows you to manage various business tools such as Promotions, Catalog, Promotions, Inventory, and so on. Users accessing at least one business tool can see the Business Tools menu. The user can see tools that are accessible to the current user.
    - Search Tool
      The Search tool is accessible from the Commerce Lab. It enables several functionalities related to search, such as Search Term Associations, Search Analytics, Search Templates, and so on. It allows the admin to preview the search terms displayed on the storefront and delivers customized search results when customers search the storefront. Search analytics helps customers to understand the patterns and items users are searching.
    - Catalog Filter and Pricing tool
      Use the Catalog Filter and Pricing tool in Commerce Lab to create and manage catalog filters, price lists, and price rules. Sellers, Sales Managers, and Account Representatives can use the tool's flexible features to implement catalog filtering and pricing strategies that meet the site's business needs over time.
    - Catalogs tool overview
      Use the Catalogs tool in the Commerce Lab to manage catalogs, categories, catalog entries, merchandising associations, product attributes, and attachments in your store. The Catalogs tool lets business users create, and manage online catalogs. Catalogs provide a way of organizing the products that you want to sell. You define catalog data in groups of categories and products. Catalog data contains descriptions and pricing information for products and services.
    - Marketing Tool
      Use the Marketing tool in the Commerce Lab to create and manage marketing campaigns and other store content, excluding catalog content. You can use the extensive precision marketing features in the tool to deliver targeted marketing messages to customers.
      - Managing web and dialog activities
        Web and dialog activities are used to deliver brand or promotional messages to customers through a variety of methods.
      - Managing email activities
        Email activities are managed by Marketing Managers to keep a site's targeted marketing efforts organized.
      - Managing marketing experiments
        Marketing experiments are managed by Marketing Managers. They are used to test the effectiveness of brand or promotional messages on the web.
      - Managing custom activity templates
        To save time, create custom activity templates to use as a starting point for creating web and dialog activities.
      - Managing activity statistics
        The Marketing tool gathers and displays various types of statistical data about your web, dialog, and email activities.
      - Managing marketing content
        Marketing content is managed by marketing managers. It is used to deliver marketing messages to customers, as part of campaign activities.
      - Managing customer segments
        Marketing Managers create customer segments to use as targets for marketing campaigns and promotions.
      - Managing e-Marketing Spots
        Marketing Managers create and manage e-Marketing Spots to ensure store pages are filled with relevant, compelling images, and information.
        Creating an e-Marketing Spot
        Create an e-Marketing Spot to reserve an area on a store web page to display marketing information to customers. You can then create web activities to specify what to display in the e-Marketing Spot.
        Prerequisites for creating an e-Marketing Spot for a JSP Store
        You must complete the prerequisite tasks before you can create an e-marketing Spot for a JSP Store.
        Prerequisites for creating an e-Marketing Spot for a Next.js Store
        Before you can create an e-Marketing Spot for a Next.js store, you must complete the prerequsite tasks.
        Displaying default content in an e-Marketing Spot
        You can specify default content to display in any e-Marketing Spot on your storefront. The default content can be catalog entries, or categories, or content, depending on the e-Marketing Spot. For example, if you want to display the same Free Shipping banner ad in the store header to all your customers, you can specify the ad as default content in the header e-Marketing Spot. You can also specify the default title content for the e-Marketing Spot.
        Changing an e-Marketing Spot
        You can change the properties of an e-Marketing Spot, such as its name, description, display type, and default content. You can also change the e-Marketing Spot default title content.
        Deleting an e-Marketing Spot
        You can delete an e-Marketing Spot from Commerce Lab if it is no longer used on your storefront. You cannot delete e-Marketing Spots that are used in active web activities.
        Duplicating the existing e-marketing spot
        Using Commerce Lab tooling, you can create a duplicate copy of the existing marketing spot.
        E-Marketing Spots
        E-Marketing Spots reserve space on your store pages for displaying marketing information to your customers. By using web activities, you can control the information that displays in e-Marketing Spots without having to involve store developers.
      - Managing feeds for e-Marketing Spots
        For e-Marketing Spots, feeds provide a means to syndicate marketing information for display in feed readers.
      - Managing email templates
        Email templates, managed by Marketing Managers, are the basis of email activities delivered to customers.
      - Managing campaigns
        Campaigns are managed by Marketing Managers, in order to keep a store's marketing activities organized.
      - Organizing marketing objects with folders
        You can use the Commerce Lab Marketing tool to create and manage folders for organizing your marketing content, customer segments, activities, and e-Marketing Spots. By using marketing folders to group and organize your marketing objects you can simplify browsing for and managing your marketing objects.
      - Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
        Find answers to some frequently asked questions about using key features of the Marketing tool and completing tasks.
      - Troubleshooting
        If you encounter issues while you are using the Marketing tool, review troubleshooting information to solve common problems.
    - Inventory tool
      Commerce+ offers various Packaged Business Capabilities (PBCs). This section explains the Commerce Lab tooling support for the Inventory.
    - Promotions Tool
      Use the Promotions tool in Commerce Lab to create and manage promotions that support the marketing campaigns for your site.
    - Customer Management
      Customer Management tools are used to manage business accounts and catalogs for Commerce Lab.
    - Store Management
      Store management tool allows you to manage stores, taxes, shipping, and installments through the Commerce Lab.
    - Workspace Management tool
      The Workspace Management tool is a graphical user interface tool that is used to manage workspaces and workspace-related activities. It provides a single view across all workspaces and all tasks in the workspaces where managers can see how work is progressing.
  - Analytics Tool
    Commerce Lab has the Analytics tool listed in the hamburger menu.
- Administering
  The site administrator performs the tasks needed to support day to day operations of the Commerce+ site.
- Extending
  Using Commerce+'s xC programming model, you can use HCL-provided extension points to extend existing Commerce logic. You can implement these extensions with the xC Customization toolkit provided by HCL. Commerce+ also provides Packaged Business Capability integrations that extend the product's reach and functionality.
- Securing
  These topics describe the security features of Commerce+ and how to configure these features.
- Performance
  Topics in the Performance section describe the means by which to plan, implement, test, and re-visit the optimization of Commerce+ site performance.
- Troubleshooting
  Topics in the Troubleshooting section highlight common issues that are encountered with Commerce+, and how they can be addressed or mitigated.
- Reference
  Topics in the Reference section contain all of the Commerce+ reference documentation.

Prerequisites for creating an e-Marketing Spot for a Next.js Store

Before you can create an e-Marketing Spot for a Next.js store, you must complete the prerequsite tasks.

You must work with the front-end developer to ensure that you can create an e-Marketing Spot in the Commerce Lab.

For a Next.js store, the front-end developers can accept any content for an e-Marketing spot and control how the content is rendered on the page. The content for the e-Marketing spot can include text, images, or formatted HTML a with click action. You must work with the front end developers to decide the location of the e-Marketing spot. The types of marketing information that can be displayed in a e-Marketing Spot are:

Content
Categories
Catalog entries

You must use the same eSpotName to create the e-Marketing spot as defined by the front-end developer in the Next.s application.

For more information, see ../../storeseparation/refs/react_emarketingspots.html.