Customer indexing

Customer indexing enables searching on Commerce customer data. Every time a customer is created or updated, the Commerce Engine updates the CustomersIndex list, which in turn triggers an update to the Customer index (commerce_customrs_index). The Search service uses this index for customer look-ups performed from the business tools.

The following fields are stored in the Customer index:

customerid: unique identifier for the customer
email: customer’s email address
status: customer’s account status
firstname: customer’s first name
lastname: customer’s last name
datecreated: the date when the customer was added to the system
dateupdated: the date when the customer’s account was last updated
articfactstoreid: the ID for the environment where the customer was created

By default, the indexer runs every ten minutes.