Integrations & Orchestration

The Integration and Orchestration pillars of the Fastr Frontend Platform let you add dynamic elements and properties to your experiences. Be it your backend E-commerce platform or any other third-party vendor where your data resides, our team of talented Sales Engineers will set up these integrations for you in your account and post that you can start using the data in your experiences and make your experiences more dynamic, smart and data-informed

Not sure if your subscription includes integrations & orchestrations? Interested in making use of this functionality but don’t know where to start? reach out to your dedicated CSMs or write us at support@getfastr.com and we will take it up from there.

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Integrations

Our Sales Engineers will collect your requirements alongside the necessary details for the Integrations and post that will work on your use case to enable these integrations in your account.

Integrations are added on an account level and can be accessed from the dashboard with the necessary permissions.

There are 3 types of Integrations that can be added to your account:

1. Data Integrations: These integrations can be used inside any experience as they make backend data available for experiences. This would be your product data, information from your E-commerce backend, personalization engine, AB testing platform, UGC engine, ERP, etc. Connect with your backend tech stack and make product data available for Live Pricing, Product Name, Product Description, blog content, personalization decisions, etc
   
   

2. Custom Actions: These are predefined actions that are specific to your account.​ These tie into your site configuration, like "Open Quickview" which takes a SKU.​ These will be reusable actions available in every experience.
   

3. Background Integrations: These integrations will run on all of your experiences without any user interaction. ​On clicking on the canvas, you can see all the background integrations available in that experience. These integrations can be used to integrate analytics in all of your experience or even dynamically update the design in any experience

Orchestrations

Once the Integration is added to your account by our team, our Sales engineers will train you on how you can make use of this data inside your experiences to make your content live, dynamic, and data-informed. We call the process of adding data to widgets as Orchestration and the people doing this as Orchestrators.

The orchestration process can be entirely done from the `Experience Canvas` screen while you or your teammate are building the content simultaneously.

Each integration will be different in nature but the steps to use the data from these integrations in your experience will remain the same. Here are the basic steps that will enable you to add live data to your widgets:

1. Data Integrations: These Integrations will need to be added explicitly by you whenever you want to use any data integrations added to your account.

   1. Choose the widget from the canvas that you want to provide the data

      

   2. In the design tab, click on the + sign alongside Behaviors

      

   3. In case of a text widget, you will be able to see 4 different options in the dropdown. Based on the type of widget, these options will change slightly. Select Set text if you want to connect this widget to the data coming from the backend

      

   4. From the Source field, you can select any of the data point that is available to you. These will be the fields that we will get as an output of the integrations.
      For Example: In the use case, we are replacing the text in the text widget with the name of the product coming from the Integration.

      

   5. Add a placeholder
      *This step is optional

      

2. Custom Actions: These Integrations will need to be added explicitly by you whenever you want to use any custom action added to your account.

   1. Select the element you want to apply this custom action to and click on the Interact tab
      

   2. Click on the plus button from Interactions

      

   3. Select Trigger as onClick and select Custom Actions from the Actions field

      

   4. Depending on the use case, choose the custom action from the dropdown
      Some Custom Actions may require adding a CSS Selector, but you will get trained by our team on this beforehand

      

       

3. Background Integrations: Since these integrations are automatically enabled in your experiences, you don’t need to add them explicitly.
   All of your background integrations can be seen by clicking anywhere on the Experience Canvas

   

In case you want more information on the Integration and Orchestration Pillars of the product, feel free to reach out to your dedicated CSMs or write us at support@getfastr.com and we will take it up from there.!