Release Information for All Versions of FSA Spartacus Libraries

Note: Spartacus 2.x is no longer maintained. Please upgrade to the latest version.

Contents:

Introduction

This document describes what is included in all FSA Spartacus 1.x libraries since 1.0.

Note: FSA Spartacus 1.x requires Spartacus 2.1 and Angular 9. For more information, see Building FSA Spartacus storefront from libraries.

  • For information on specific code changes for a particular release, see the Development Release Notes.
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The various documentation links provided point to SAP Commerce Cloud or Accelerator documentation or third-party external links. These links are included for information purposes only and may not reflect exactly what is implemented in Spartacus.

Release 1.0

List of features delivered with 1.0:

  • Quotation and Application Process
    The Financial Services Accelerator guides customers through each step of the quotation/application process. At every step, customers are provided with a summary of their choices. In this guided-selling processes, customers have general options: request a quote/application, save it for later review or issue the policy/contract right away. The Process itself is configurable and steps can be adjusted in different way for each product category.
  • Dynamic Forms
    Highly flexible and secure web forms solution that enable customer to collect, store and transfer data provided by a customer during his engagement.
  • Insurance & Banking My Account
    In the My Account area, Financial Services Accelerator allows customers to manage their personal data and payment details, as well as view information about quotes, applications, policies, documents associated to an insurance policy, a banking application or access their inbox messages. Customers can also give or revoke their consent to marketing activities as well as close their account.
  • Claims - First Notice of Loss
    Customers can report claims online through a guided step-by-step process. The process relies on Dynamic Forms and is hence highly configurable.
  • Inbox
    All messages and documents provided by a financial service institution are made available to the customer via the Inbox in My Account. All messages can be grouped according to their content, sorted, and then displayed in different tabs.
  • Policy Change Process
    Insurance carriers can provide their customers with the possibility to adjust their policy online. Sample processes for changing mileage, adding or removing a coverage, and adding additional drivers are provided based on the sample Auto Insurance product.
  • Insurance Agent Capabilities
    Customers can search for agents either using a map (integration to maps providers possible) or by any sorting category (Insurance type, Banking LoB, etc.). They can also reach out to their agent of choice, resulting in a customer support ticket which is then being pushed to the agent’s workplace.
  • Insurance and Banking Products
    Combining both industries in one storefront allows companies to simultaneously offer both products but still use different quotation and application processes.

About FSA Spartacus Releases

  • Libraries that are “released” are new, official, tested Spartacus libraries available to the public (hosted on npmjs.com).
  • A minor change means we added new features, but they are configured to be off by default, not to cause compatibility issues. A new minor can also include changes or bug fixes that may affect compatibility, but feature flags also control these. So all significant changes are “opt-in”. See feature flag documentation for more information.
  • We will normally publish pre-release libraries labelled ‘next’ a few weeks before a new minor release. The goal is to provide early access to new features and get feedback from the community.
  • If you choose not to use a new feature, you should have no problems upgrading to a new Major.# with features flag set to a previous Major.#. If you do see a problem, please report a bug, and we’ll assess and fix it. We encourage you to upgrade to the latest libraries frequently during development in order to take advantage of bug fixes and new features.
  • To use all functionalities in Spartacus 2.*, release 2005 of SAP Commerce Cloud and 2008 of Financial Services Accelerator is required.
  • The latest patch release is strongly recommended, as it usually contains bug fixes that affect Spartacus.

Future Releases

See the separate roadmap document.