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API changes in Sitefinity 6.1 Ecommerce

Here's a list of breaking changes for Sitefinity CMS 6.1:

Product types

Product Types in the Ecommerce module are now shared across all the sites of your Multi site installation of Sitefinity CMS. This means that you can just define product types once and use it on any of your sites unlike 6.0 where Product Types have to be defined for each site. Product Types are separated from rest of the catalog and moved to their own shared provider, hence the breaking change in 6.1.

Accessing Products Types before:

CatalogManager catalogManager = CatalogManager.GetManager();
 
            //Get All Product types
            var productTypes = catalogManager.GetProductTypes();
 
            //Get single product type
            var productType = catalogManager.GetProductType(Guid.NewGuid()); //pass the right id
 
            //Create product type, below steps + any meta data persistence
            var newProductType = catalogManager.CreateProductType();
 
            //delete product type
            catalogManager.DeleteProductType(productType);

Accessing Product Types since 6.1:

EcommerceManager ecommerceManager = EcommerceManager.GetManager();
 
            //Get All Product types
            var productTypes = ecommerceManager.GetProductTypes();
 
            //Get single product type
            var productType = ecommerceManager.GetProductType(Guid.NewGuid()); //pass the right id
 
            //Create product type, below steps + any meta data persistence
            var newProductType = ecommerceManager.CreateProductType();
 
            //delete product type
            ecommerceManager.DeleteProductType(productType);

You have to use the EcommerceManager and use  Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.Ecommerce.Common namespace since Sitefinity 6.1.

There are also API Changes related to the product variations. For more information, see Sitefinity CMS 6.1 Ecommerce API changes. 

There are also issues that might occur in your Ecommerce module after upgrading to Sitefinity CMS 6.1. For more information, see Ecommerce Upgrade Instructions to Sitefinity CMS 6.1. 
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