AEM - Adobe Commerce Integration | Community
Skip to main content
Level 8
March 10, 2026
Question

AEM - Adobe Commerce Integration

  • March 10, 2026
  • 1 reply
  • 18 views

Hi all,

 

Kindly walk me through a case study of AEM - Adobe Commerce Integration using CIF.

It could involve high level requirements and high level steps to accomplish it.

I will follow hyper links to go deep on any of these steps.

 

Appreciate all your replies.

 

Thanks,

RK.

 

    1 reply

    AmitVishwakarma
    Community Advisor
    Community Advisor
    March 10, 2026

    Hi ​@nsvsrk 

    At a high level, the recommended pattern is "AEM owns the glass, Commerce is headless":

    AEM Sites is the experience layer, Adobe Commerce exposes the catalog, pricing and cart/checkout over GraphQL, and the CIF add‑on connects the two. https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/content-and-commerce/cif-storefront/introduction

    1. High‑level requirements

    • AEM
      • AEM as a Cloud Service with CIF add‑on enabled or AEM 6.5 LTS with CIF add‑on
      • AEM Project Archetype (with includeCommerce=y) or the Venia reference storefront
    • Adobe Commerce
      • Adobe Commerce 2.3.5+ (practically 2.4.x), GraphQL enabled and reachable from AEM
      • Configured stores/store‑views and sample or real catalog data
    • Connectivity & infra
      • Secure HTTPS access to Commerce GraphQL endpoint
      • CDN/Dispatcher/Fastly caching in front of AEM and Commerce
    • Docs: https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-65-lts/content/commerce/integrations/magento

    2. High‑level implementation steps

    1. Enable CIF on AEM
    2. Connect AEM to Adobe Commerce (GraphQL)
      • Configure the COMMERCE_ENDPOINT (Cloud Service env var) or CIF GraphQL client to point to the Commerce GraphQL URL.
      • Verify product/category queries work from AEM.
    3. Bootstrap the storefront project
    4. Bring catalog into the authoring experience
      • Use CIF's Product Console, product & category pickers so authors can search/browse Commerce products inside AEM and drop them onto pages.
      • This gives marketing a real‑time view of Commerce catalog data while authoring.
    5. Build the shopping experience in AEM
      • Compose PLP/PDP, search, cart and checkout using CIF Core Components (server‑side Sling Models + React client‑side parts) and your own components where needed.
      • Map URLs/SEO patterns for category and product pages; configure multi‑store / multi‑site mappings if required.
    6. Enrich products with AEM content
    7. Tune caching and performance
      • Configure Dispatcher/Fastly caching for AEM pages and Commerce GraphQL responses (TTL and cache‑keys per use case).
      • Validate behavior under load (catalog browse, PDP, cart, checkout) and fine‑tune invalidation strategy.
    Amit Vishwakarma - Adobe Commerce Champion 2025 | 16x Adobe certified | 4x Adobe SME
    nsvsrkAuthor
    Level 8
    March 11, 2026

    Thanks ​@AmitVishwakarma for this nice detailed insights.

     

    1.What are the typical use cases/Business Requirements?

    Ex: Customize PLP and PDP?

    Bring some other parameter from an outside system and show in the PDP?

     

    2.For this requirement do we customize which CIF Core Component?

     

    3.I see only GraphQL as the Integration protocol.

    But in some other documentation I read REST also.

    Where could it be?

     

    4.For Performance, do we ever bring products data from Magento to AEM?

    It does not make sense as eCommerce is the owner of all such data.

    If not Product Data, is there any other data we could bring on to JCR, just to speed things up?

     

    5.Between AEM 6.5 and AEMCS, is there any difference in this integration?

     

    Once again appreciate all your guidance.

     

    Thanks,

    RK.