Gating E-Commerce Service Features#
Warning
This service is deprecated and was last tagged for the Redwood release. We are not fixing bugs or developing new features for it. For updates, follow along on the DEPR ticket
You can release new E-Commerce service features and functionality behind a feature gate. This project uses the Waffle library for feature gating.
Types of Feature Gates#
Waffle supports the following types of feature gates.
Flag: This gate allows you to enable a feature for specific users, groups, users who meet certain criteria (such as authenticated users or staff), or a certain percentage of visitors.
Switch: This gate is a Boolean that turns a feature on or off for all users.
Sample: This gate allows you to define the probability with which a given feature will be on.
For more information about creating or updating features and feature gates, see the Waffle documentation.
Feature Gates#
Waffle offers the following feature gates.
Name |
Type |
Purpose |
|---|---|---|
user_enrollments_on_dashboard |
Switch |
Display a user’s current enrollments on the dashboard user detail page. |
publish_course_modes_to_lms |
Switch |
Publish prices and SKUs to the LMS after every course modification. |
async_order_fulfillment |
Sample |
Specify what percentage of orders are fulfilled asynchronously. |
ENABLE_CREDIT_APP |
Switch |
Enable the credit checkout page, from which learners can purchase credit in a course. |
ENABLE_NOTIFICATIONS |
Switch |
Enable email notifications for a variety of user actions, such as when an order is placed. |
PAYPAL_RETRY_ATTEMPTS |
Switch |
Enable users to retry unsuccessful PayPal payments. |
Enable a Feature Permanently#
If you want to make a feature permanent, remove its feature gate from relevant code and tests, and delete the gate from the database.
Maintenance chart
Review Date |
Working Group Reviewer |
Release |
Test situation |
2025-03-09 |
Sarina Canelake |
Sumac |
Deprecated |