Litium 8 is a major version of the Litium commerce platform. As part of the Litium Commerce Cloud offer, the platform scales dynamically with maintained performance and 99,8% uptime. In Litium you manage your online sales with order management and campaigns, as well as product information and marketing material. This version is the last step in a complete refactoring and redesign of the APIs and the administration UI of the platform.
Highlights
- 100% refactored and redesigned platform
- New order management UI
- New order management API
- New campaign management UI
- New campaign management API
- New Litium Connect Payments API
- New Litium Connect Shipment API
- Litium Apps framework
- Microsoft .NET 5 as technical platform framework
- Litium Search powered by Elasticsearch is the new standard and Lucene.NET is deprecated as search engine
- Updated technical frameworks for the Litium Accelerator: React 17, React Hooks and Webpack 5.
- Updated technical framework for the platform administration to Angular 12.
- Many bug fixes and improvements
Redesigned platform
With Litium 8 all platform .NET APIs, admin web APIs and UI views in the administration have been redesigned to follow the modern patterns of the rest of the platform modules.
Read more about the Litium .NET API here
New order management UI
- Redesigned admin UI with a one page overview of an order.
- Indications of where an order, delivery and payment is in the fulfilment process.
- New order search with filter capabilities.
New order management API
- Improved domain model to better support surrounding systems.
- Improved data model for orders, payments and shipments.
- Improved cart handling.
- Fixed order states for better control.
Read more about order management
New campaign management UI
To be able to increase customer acquisition and sales, the campaign management in Litium has been redesigned with many new capabilities. Some of the new capabilities are listed below.
- The management of campaigns is split into discounts and campaigns.
- The campaign entity has the capability of including discounts and content such as pages and blocks from the Websites module.
- Complete support to publish the ingoing discounts, pages and blocks to different channels, markets and target groups.
- Visual calendar planner tool to get an overview of a campaign and it's ingoing discounts, pages and blocks.
New campaign management API
Refactored to match the standards of the new API structure used in the rest of the platform.
New Litium Connect Payments API
The new Connect Payments API is a restful web API, specifically built to support integrations to payment providers.
New Litium Connect Shipment API
The new Connect Shipment API is a restful web API, specifically built to support integrations to WMS and TA systems.
Read more about Litium Connect
Litium Apps framework
A Litium app is a decoupled application from the Litium customer solution, communicating with Litium over web APIs and run as a docker container image managed in Litium Cloud.
Read more about the Litium Apps framework
Klarna checkout app
The Klarna add-on has been refactored to fit into the Litium App framework.
Read more about the Klarna checkout app
Microsoft .NET 5 as technical platform framework
The technical framework is updated to .NET 5 for Litium as well as the Litium Accelerator, which provides the benefits of improved processing and more efficient memory handling.
Litium is platform independent
Since Litium is now running on .NET Core, it is possible to run Litium on platforms like Windows, Linux, and iOS.
New installation process
The Litium Accelerator package is now distributed as a .NET template and can be installed with command lines from PowerShell.
Litium Search powered by Elasticsearch is the new standard and Lucene.NET is deprecated as search engine
From Litium 8, Litium search powered by Elasticsearch is the default search framework of the Litium platform. As a consequence Lucene.NET search framework is deprecated.
Read more about Litium search
Updated technical frameworks for the Litium Accelerator: React 17, React Hooks and Webpack 5
- React is updated to version 17.
- React Hooks is introduced.
- Webpack is updated to version 5.
Read more about the Litium Accelerator
Updated technical framework for the platform administration to Angular 12
In the administration of the platform, Angular is updated to version 12.
Many bug fixes and improvements
See the release notes here