Phased Delivery

A commerce integration touches a PIM, the storefront, payment, an ERP, and a fulfillment system, each with its own owner, release cadence, and definition of "done." A single cutover forces all of them to be correct simultaneously, then hides any mistake until live orders hit it. Phasing flips that: each slice exposes mapping and ownership problems while the blast radius is still small and the rollback is still cheap. The integrations that turn into multi-week firefights almost always skipped this step, which is the pattern we unpack in why commerce cloud integrations fail before the code.

How we sequence the slices

Typical flows, ordered by dependency and risk: PIM publish, order capture, payment status, ERP posting, fulfillment and shipment status, returns, finance reconciliation, then reporting. We sequence them around your actual constraints, not a generic template, and design each slice against the error and retry behavior described in our commerce integration error patterns playbook so a failed slice degrades safely instead of corrupting downstream state.