About Rhythm for Commerce

Rhythm for Commerce is an engagement platform that provides the tools that you need to create a customer-facing web shop.

Your web shop is tightly integrated with the products in Rhythm for Commerce and your ERP. Through the use of APIs and web services, information that is displayed on your web shop is read directly from your databases. When your customer places an order, the order is sent from your web shop to your ERP for fulfillment.

Rhythm for Commerce is a multi-tenant solution, which is available through a subscription-based (SaaS) delivery model from Amazon Web Services (AWS). You can integrate an ERP to Rhythm for Commerce.

Rhythm for Commerce contains these products:
  • Infor Rhythm Commerce Business Center. Use this product to arrange products into catalogs, create campaigns and promotions, and manage the customers who access your web shop. You also use Business Center to manage search settings, such as boosting rules, to use with Elasticsearch.
  • PIM system. Use a PIM system to enrich information about the products that you sell on your web shop. You can upload materials such as manuals, sell sheets, and specifications. You also use this product to specify the product attributes that your customers can use to locate products. Infor PIM and inriver PIM are supported for use with Rhythm for Commerce. You can use PIM APIs to configure a connection from Rhythm for Commerce to another PIM system.
  • Infor Rhythm Portal. Rhythm Portal is a web shop portal and a content management system. Use Rhythm Portal to create website pages, configure the Rhythm Commerce and Rhythm Portal widgets on the pages, and manage your website's static content.
  • Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch is the search engine of your website. When your customers search your website, Elasticsearch returns results that are based on settings that you specify in Business Center.
  • CenPOS. CenPOS is used to process credit cart payments.
In addition, these components of the Infor OS are used in the suite:
  • Infor Ming.le™. This product is used to manage single sign on for the products in the suite.
  • Infor ION. This product is used to connect your ERP to Business Center.
  • Infor Document Management. This product is used to store key business documents, such as order acknowledgments, invoices, and delivery notes. When your customers visit your website, they can download the documents that are associated with their orders.