UX1 MP 2.4 Release Notes for Providers

Content Management

To boost your sales and make your marketplace more attractive for customers, you can now easily build and compose UX1 Marketplace content.

This includes:

  • Importing your existing product catalog from Odin Automation with one click
  • Customizing your catalog with the Rich Text Editor to compose the layout of your Category and Product Pages, Categories and Plans
  • Defining the categories of products and plans and controlling their visibility
  • Designing your product pages
  • Defining the Home page representation including a configurable banner section, the color and the Top Selling Services section

 

Resale Control

You can now choose what your resellers are able to sell by making any service plan, product or category visible or invisible by hovering over an item to click on the eye that appears. If any of these items is invisible to a reseller, the eye is crossed out and looks as follows:

Navigation Management

You can now easily manage the UX1 MP tile position on the Home page and the MP navigation item position right in the UX1 panel. The scenarios with the MP and Sales Channels disablement are changed:

  • If you turn off the UX1 MP, it is hidden for your resellers.
  • If you disable the UX1 MP configuration, the Sales Channels section is hidden for your resellers.

Tailor the Purchasing Experience

You can now change the look and feel of the buying experience by customizing screens, including:

  • changing the banner and theme color
  • switching pictures displayed on the home page
  • ordering the main menu on the left

Saved and Shared Shopping Carts

Prepare preconfigured offers for your customers by composing the shopping cart templates, which you can then share with customers, resellers, and within an account.

Sorting by Essential Seats

Now all minimum required and included seats in a service plan are displayed at the top of the list.

Services with an External Catalog

Now UX1 MP supports services with an external catalog which means that the SKUs and prices are taken from the application's external catalog. A vendor's application must be plugged into UX1 Marketplace using a special plug-in interface and a placeholder to embed its own view plugin for selecting products and prices from the external catalog.

Current limitations:
1. BSS promo codes and discounts are not supported.
2. Product prices extracted from the external catalog cannot be adjusted while proceeding to the checkout screen.

Support for Adjusting Quantities in Trial Plans

Now you can adjust resource quantities for trial plans in the UX1 Marketplace if the respective resource rates are marked as configurable for trial plans. For more detailed information about resource rate configuration for trial plans, please refer to the Billing Provider's Guide.

New Deployment Procedure

UX1 MP 2.0 supports Odin Automation platform 8.0 and later. The deployment procedure is now unified and standardized with other platform microservice deployments. This new approach provides stability and the capability for one person to maintain all microservices. The UX1 MP is now installed using Helm. For more details about the new installation and upgrade procedures, please refer to the Deploying UX1 Marketplace 2.x.