One of the pivotal announcements at the recent Sitecore Symposium was the introduction of the API Platform within Sitecore Connect. While webhooks have been a valuable tool for handling integrations and scheduled jobs, they present several challenges when used for more complex and business-critical requirements. These challenges include limitations in delivering authenticated APIs, lower rate limits, lack of queuing strategies, inability to deliver customized responses (e.g., pre-hook webhooks in OrderCloud), etc. The API Platform is built to address these limitations by offering a robust, scalable, and secure solution tailored for business-critical, complex, and high-volume events while delivering additional benefits like better performance, security, and operational efficiency.
Webhooks Not Firing from OrderCloud Portal? Here’s the Solution
Building robust integrations with OrderCloud often involves leveraging webhooks to react to specific events. However, many developers encounter a common issue: webhooks may trigger flawlessly when the associated events are executed from within the integrated apps but fail to fire when those associated events are initiated from within the OrderCloud portal. It took a little while for me to figure out, so thought to share with the community so it helps someone who might be looking for it. Let’s dive into the solution.
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OrderCloud + Microsoft Teams: Meet and Beat your Business Targets by building a better Digital Workspace
Building a digital storefront with enduring value in the new normal relies on an effective eCommerce process that streamlines reminders and notifications, including escalations to the right people on time, as delayed responses & missed actions directly impact business targets. The new OrderCloud Teams App notifies your teams of the updates on Orders, Products, Inventory, Promotions, etc, instantaneously with desired actions and insights that accelerate productivity & efficiency.
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Securing OrderCloud Webhook Event Listeners using Javascript Catalyst
An extensible system empowers businesses to respond to emerging challenges efficiently. OrderCloud ensures extensibility, and Webhooks is one of the common approaches available to extend OrderCloud. Webhooks are user-defined HTTP callbacks, which invoke your own HTTP endpoints that performs custom logic, whenever the associated OrderCloud API endpoint is triggered. This introduces the need for validating the authenticity of the call within your HTTP endpoint, to ensure it is from OrderCloud.
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