Salesforce B2C Commerce 24.7 > Administering Your Organization > Import and Export

Import/Export Methods

Salesforce B2C Commerce offers several ways you can add or extract data from your instance database.

Use Business Manager Site Import/Export To

  • Create a copy of an instance for a new sandbox
  • Set up an instance global data such as:
    • Global preferences as locales, instance time zones - Global custom objects
    • Schedules
    • System object attribute extensions
    • Custom object types
    • Custom preference type definitions
  • Create a copy of an instance for archiving
  • Export site-specific metadata, such as custom objects

Use Business Manager Import/Export To

  • Trigger an import/export manually
  • Import business objects
  • Handle large data sets
  • Import/export various storefront data using a fast, reliable, and resource-efficient method. This data includes catalog text and image data.

Use Import/Export Pipelets To

  • Automate import/export
  • Add custom logic to import/export
  • Perform a more granular export than is available in Business Manager

Use B2C Commerce Scripts To

  • Add files to the cartridge for import
  • Import/export directories
  • Import/export files that are not images or data, such as Flash applications or other site applications
  • Add a file generated by or required by a third party to your cartridge
Related concepts
Import and Export

Infocenter Retirement: On June 30, 2023, the Infocenter was retired, and documentation currently hosted on the Infocenter will be published to Salesforce Help, Commerce Cloud Developer Center, and Salesforce B2C Commerce Developer Documentation Resources. For more information, see the release note.