Platform Foundation Entities: Accounts, Retailers, Locations, Networks, Users, Roles, Permissions, and Settings
How to set up an empty Account with 2 fully functional Retailers using LaunchPad v1 Postman Collection
Hands-on Prerequisites:
To complete this hands-on course, you will need to have been sent a new Training Account, which comes empty. If you have not received this Account information via email within 2 business days, please contact learning@fluentcommerce.com.Additionally, right click each of the following links and save to a folder on your Desktop:
This course is based on a recording of a live instructor led session - make sure your audio is up and set the playback speed to whatever suits you.
Some of the content is out of date, including the use of deprecated web apps, Admin Console and ServicePoint - Please use Fluent OMS and Fluent Store instead
The LaunchPad v1 Postman Collection is provided "as-is"
A new up to date version of this course is scheduled for Q1 2023
Platform Foundation
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Platform Foundation
Setup and Configuration - Platform overview
LaunchPad v1 - Tool Overview
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Launchpad Slides
Setup and Configuration - Tools overview
About the "FC Retail Group" Sample Setup
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The Setup
Setup and Configuration - Setting up retailer groups
Lab: Postman Setup
The following video was recorded on an older version of Postman and the Labs Collection. Note the following updates below:
When the instructor refers to the "T5 Collection", please use the previously downloaded "Fluent Learning - TC-SC1 Labs" Collection instead.
There are also some UI differences in Postman, so make sure to be aware of the following:
To create a new Workspace, click on the Workspaces dropdown > Create Workspace (or click on the "New" button, and select Workspace):
On the Create Workspace screen, Select Personal Space radio button:
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Postman Setup
Setup and Configuration - How to set up Postman
LaunchPad v1 Collection Walkthrough
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Collection Walkthrough
Setup and Configuration - How to set up collections
Lab: Creating Retailers
UI differences in Postman
The following video was recorded on an older version of Postman. There are some UI differences, so make sure to be aware of the following:
To Open the Collection Runner, select the Collection on the left, and click on the Run button as highlighted below:The Runner window is now also integrated within the main Postman window, and looks like this:
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Runner Retailer
Setup and Configuration - How to set up retailers
Lab: Creating Locations
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Creating Locations
Setup and Configuation - How to set up locations
Lab: Creating Networks
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Creating Networks
Setup and Configuration - How to create networks
Lab: Creating Product Catalogues
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Creating Product Catalogues
Setup and Configuration - How to create product catalogues
Lab: Creating Categories
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Creating Categories
Setup and Configuration - How to create categories
Lab: Creating Products
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Creating Products
Setup and Configuration - How to create products
Lab: Creating Virtual Catalogues
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Creating Virtual Catalogues
Setup and Configuration - How to create virtual catalogues
Lab: Creating Inventory Catalogues
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Creating Inventory Catalogues
Setup and Configuration - How to create inventory catalogues
Do not load inventory until 10 minutes after this step
Due to a caching related issue, Inventory should not be loaded, until at least 10 minutes after this step. Please take a note of the time now, and make sure to only run the "Load Inventory" step 10 to 15 minutes after this step.
The Runner window is now also integrated within the main Postman window, and looks like this:
