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Learn about the other important recent changes to Composable Commerce, such as data management, permissions, and developer tools.

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  • Describe how store-based data fencing permissions for Product Selections enhance team security and management control.

  • Summarize the purpose and core benefit of the new commercetools Identity authentication service.

  • Explain the benefits of the enhanced import and export capabilities in the Merchant Center, including the use of customizable CSV templates and exporting data via query predicates.

  • Identify the new options for configuring CSV separators and file optimization (for example, for Microsoft Excel) for data handling flexibility.

Store-based data fencing permissions for Product Selections

We've introduced team-level conditional permissions for Product Selections linked to specific Stores.

This enhancement ensures that only the designated teams have the ability to view and manage the Product Selections associated with their assigned Stores.

For instructions on setting up these team-level permissions in the Merchant Center, refer to Assign conditional permissions to a Team. You can find more information about Product Selections permissions in the documentation.

commercetools Identity

Security and user management reached a major milestone in October 2025 with the global transition of the Merchant Center to commercetools Identity. This unified authentication service provides a single, secure account for all commercetools business tools—including Studio and the Merchant Center—across AWS and GCP regions in North America, Europe, and Australia. By centralizing login credentials, this move simplifies Single Sign-On (SSO) integration and enhances security through more robust multi-factor authentication, all while preserving your existing project-level permissions and roles. It’s a seamless way to ensure your global team has consistent, high-fidelity access to the entire commercetools ecosystem without the friction of managing fragmented credentials.

Import/export

Data management just got a whole lot more flexible and powerful! Over the past several months, we’ve rolled out a suite of enhancements to the Import and Export tools in the Merchant Center designed to give you total control over your commerce data. You can now perform high-precision exports for Products and Customers using query predicates, ensuring you only download exactly what you need. We’ve also introduced support for Custom Objects (JSON), Excel-optimized CSV formatting, and customizable separators—including comma-based decimals for our international users. Whether you're handling complex Orders with multiple shipping methods or using CSV templates for consistent bulk updates, these updates eliminate the manual "cleanup" phase and make your data workflow smoother than ever!
You can quickly test these improvements out by doing a quick Customer export experiment. Simply navigate to Customers ➜ Customer list in the Merchant Center, select all customers and choose Export customers: The Customers list in the Merchant Center with all Customers selected and the Export customers action available.
A new window should pop-up allowing you to specify which Customers you would like to export, what separators to use and so on. Let’s use the query feature to only export customers whose first name is Sebastian: The Customer export dialog with a query configured to export only customers whose first name is Sebastian.
In the next step, choose which fields you would like to be included in the export and confirm the operation in the final, third step: The export wizard step where you select which Customer fields to include before confirming the export.
To download the export file, simply go to Operations ➜ Export and your file should be there waiting to be downloaded. It should only include the customers we wanted:
Note: the exported CSV uses Excel's formula-safe format, where each value is wrapped as ="value" to prevent Excel from misinterpreting data as formulas or numbers. This ensures compatibility and preserves data integrity when opening the file in Excel.
"=""key""","=""firstName""","=""lastName""","=""email""","=""addresses.country"""
"=""sebastian-mueller""","=""Sebastian""","=""Müller""","=""seb@example.de""","=""DE"""
"=""sebastian-smith""","=""Sebastian""","=""Smith""","=""seb@example.uk""","=""GB"""
"=""sebastian-franklin""","=""Sebastian""","=""Franklin""","=""seb@example.com""","=""US"""

Deprecations

As you may have noticed, numerous import/export capabilities have been added to the Merchant Center. With these enhancements, we’ve decided to deprecate ImpEx.

What about the API Playground and GraphQL IDE, you ask? No need to worry—they’re now integrated into the Merchant Center and better than ever! You can find them in your Project by navigating to Settings ➜ Developer settings.

Additionally, the Menu Visibility feature has been removed from the Merchant Center. Previously, this feature enabled administrators to manually conceal menu links for specific sections. Now, access control is exclusively managed through standard Merchant Center permissions. This decision allows us to concentrate development resources on improving core features that deliver more substantial value.

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