Better API for Magento 2
Magento 2 Better API brings the proper API-based solution to connect Magento 2 store sites to other applications. Better API simplifies the app development and facilitates data communication between store website and third-party providers. This solution provided by Tigren.
- Make initial connection
- Customer’s account registration
- Customer authentication
- Customer details update and view
- Access data of CMS Pages and Home Page
- Display categories
- Search products
- Display product information
- Do actions with product
- Show cart items’ details
- Do actions with cart
- Apply coupon code
- Record checkout and do actions
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Why do Magento 2 E-commerces need Better API?
API (application program interface) is the technical development environment that allows access to another application or platform.
Take Facebook’s API as an example. It allows limited access to the profile identity of Facebook users to verify their login. Facebook users can sign up many third-party applications via their Facebook account.
Google Maps API: Google Maps APIs lets developers embed Google Maps on webpages, mobile devices
YouTube API: YouTube API lets developers integrate YouTube videos and functionality into websites or applications.
Mobile is more and more popular in every aspect of life. When the number of mobile users is rising sharply, many stores would like to develop their own mobile apps facilitating customer’s shopping.
At this time, to uniform data between the website and the new app, API is needed. But build up an API is time-consuming for the developer so the ready-to-use API is demanding.
With API, the data of stores can be applied to other third-party applications- for example, use API to integrate customer/order data into customer service/ logistic systems.
When it comes to Magento 2 API, most of us will think about GraphQL, REST, and SOAP with its pros and cons. Therefore, to optimize the API integration, Better API is generated with the combination of 3 methods’ advantages.
Better API allows applications to interact with each other better compared to API default in Magento 2. It allows more content access and actions.
Make initial connection
Better API supports to make initial connection with the server through REST API protocol. OAuth is used for token exchange.
Here are some of the parameters:
- Name
- Callback URL
Now the store owner can set up the first connection to the app server and process next steps.
Provide customer with actions
With Better API, customers can do actions on other app server totally the same as on the web server.
Customer’s account registration Customers register new account with name, email, DOB, gender, password, address book (shipping & billing)
Customer authentication Authentication is to validate the login of customers to the store’s system. The parameters are used including email address and password.
Customer details update and view Customers using mobile app can update their information easily.
- Edit, delete data related to registration account, address book, wishlist
- View my orders, my re-orders, my returns
Get data for CMS/ Home Page
Better API allows transferring the data of CMS Page and Home Page to mobile app with the module with ease.
For CMS Pages Get the content including:
- HTML content
- Page Title
For Home Page Get the data including:
- Home Banners
- New Products
- Top Sales Products
- Feature Products
Display category and search products
Related to Catalog, Better API supports to:
Display categories
- Category and sub-categories (2-branch tree structure)
- URL Key
- Category name
- Description
- Small images, Thumbnail images
Search products Find a product of store with:
- Get popular search
- Search by name or SKU
Display product list and do product actions
Display product information Show all information related to a product on the mobile app.
- General information: name, SKU, short description, URL Key
- Configurable attribute: size, color
- Prices: price, special price
- Images: small images, base images, thumbnail images
- Stock and stock status
Actions with a product
- Select quantity
- Select configurable options
- Add to cart
- Add to wishlist
- Add to compare
Get cart information and actions
Display cart information and do actions with it on the Shopping Cart page
Show Cart items’ details
- Product Name
- Product Image
- Product Options (for configurable products)
- Product’s Price
- Product’s Qty
Do actions with cart
- Update item
- Remove item
- Update cart
- Clear cart
Provide discount based on Magento coupon code
Better API supports coupon code applicable as usual.
- Check whether coupon usage is applicable
- Check whether a customer is able to use the coupon
- Apply coupon when activating the code
- Apply coupon at cart page & checkout page
Record checkout information and actions
- Purchase time
- Billing/ Shipping name, address
- Price: base price and purchase price
- Payment information
- Order status
- Product information: name, SKU, color, size, price, qty, subtotal, tax, discount, row total
- Change shipping address
- Save shipping address
- Save shipping method
- Save payment method
- Place order
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