Spartacus Roadmap

This document describes what what is planned for Spartacus for Q3 and Q4 2020, and later.

Last updated August 17, 2020 by Bill Marcotte, Senior Product Manager, Spartacus

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Disclaimer - Forward-Looking Statements

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Overview

General Release Information

We usually publish new Spartacus libraries every week. Each release may contain bug fixes, improvements, and new features.

When new features are available for release, normally we will publish a pre-release “next” version of the libraries with the new features, in order to get feedback. When the final, new, minor version is ready, we usually publish a release candidate (RC), with the final new x.y.0 a few days or weeks later.

Some of the links provided in the following lists point to SAP Commerce Cloud Accelerator documentation, to give an idea of what the feature is about. These links are for context only. While we strive for feature parity, the Spartacus implementation of features may not work exactly as in Accelerator.

Other Release Documentation

Questions?

If you have technical questions, you can get in touch with us on Stack Overflow.

For non-technical questions and roadmap feedback, you can reach us on our Slack workspace.

Features Planned for Version 2.1 - End of August

  • Directionality: Provides support for bidirectional text and layout. You can configure Spartacus to use a left-to-right (LTR) orientation, or a right-to-left (RTL) orientation. The 2.1 feature is for core functionality; that Spartacus updates to CSS will be completed in the 3.0. For more information, see the draft documentation.

  • Style Library Versioning: Allows the core Spartacus development team to introduce gradual changes in the style layer while maintaining backwards compatibility. New or adjusted style rules are added for a specific version, but these changes are not added in the style build process unless you explicitly opt in to receive these changes. For more information, see the draft documentation.

Features Planned for Version 3.0 / September

Release 3.0 will be the first release supporting B2B features.

B2B Storefront Features planned for 3.0

  • B2B Checkout
    • Allows customers to check out by account, besides credit card
    • Customers can enter a purchase order number that is saved with orders
    • If paying by account: cost center selection, shipping address restricted by cost center chosen), subject to approval process
    • For more information, see the SAP Commerce Documentation
  • B2B Commerce Org
    • Also known as My Company
    • Self-service spending and organization management
    • Create and manage units, users, budgets, cost centers, purchase thresholds, user groups, and approvals)
    • For more information, see the SAP Commerce Documentation
  • B2B Scheduled Replenishment
  • B2B Re-order
  • Updates to Order Details
    • Includes B2B-specific information, such as approval table and cost center
  • Lazy loading for modules
    • For better performance
    • Starting with B2B My Company module

Note: Spartacus B2B features require SAP Commerce Cloud 2005. Certain features (such as Commerce Org or Scheduled Replenishment) require OCC REST APIs introduced in 2005; and the Spartacus functionality will be implemented based on the non-conflicting B2B endpoints introduced in 2005.

Architectural Features planned for 3.0

  • Angular 10
  • Session Management improvements
    • Separates OCC API integration from core Spartacus code, allowing use of adapters and connectors
    • Makes it easier to add your own Identity Provider
    • Improves security while reducing friction in the authentication and login user experience
  • Customer Data Cloud integration library (Login and Registration Support)

Features Planned for the Rest of Q4 2020 and into Q1 2021

B2B Storefront Features

Core Storefront Features

  • Image Zoom on Product Details page (will be released in an incubator library)
  • Accessibility Screen Reader support
  • Buy online pickup in store
  • Assisted Service Module customer list
  • Assisted Service Module anonymous cart binding (requires API introduced in 2005)
  • Potential Promotions (*)

Architecture Features

  • New events for Event Service
  • Site map
  • Tag Manager framework
  • Google Tag Manager Support

Integrations

  • SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing (formerly known as CPQ) Initial version to include:
    • Single- or multilevel configurable products in your Commerce Spartacus storefront
    • Configuration page with the most commonly used characteristic types such as radio buttons, checkboxes, and images for characteristic values
    • Price summary at the bottom of the configuration page with the base price, the price of the selected options, and the overall total price of the configured product
    • Overview page with all user selections accessible at any time during configuration
    • Conflict handling For reference, see Product Configuration with SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing.

Future Outlook / Features Planned for 2021 and Later

The items in this section are on our future roadmap - not necessarily yet planned for a specific quarter.

Architecture and Development Features

  • Performance improvements through further implementation of lazy loading and with CMS
  • Completion of events framework
  • Extensibility improvements

Core/B2C Storefront Features

  • Captcha (*)
  • New Accessibility features
  • Buy it again (add to cart from existing order)
  • Social sharing of product information
  • Self-service customer support through the Customer Service Module (*)
  • Configurable bundles (*)
  • Payments Request API (W3 Documentation)
  • Credentials API
  • Other PWA Features as defined in Google’s PWA Checklist such as mobile notifications
  • Angular I18N support
  • Directionality (for right-to-left display support)
  • Spartacus for China (similar to Accelerator for China)

B2B Storefront Features

Some items listed above have (*) because the feature requires new OCC REST APIs, no date set yet.