2 Activating the Merchandising Cloud Service Solutions
System activation is a one-time activity performed in Merchandising environments which involves defining a group of system critical settings which are required at a minimum to initiate a given environment. This particular set of system options are required for activation, because they drive how other options are defaulted and how some seed data is loaded into the solution.
Activation needs to be performed for each distinct environment; therefore, careful attention must be paid to ensure your various environments are activated with the same setting selections. Differences in setting values could lead to issues during data migration activities.
When Merchandising is not yet activated, various solutions and services within the ecosystem will display a default message requesting you to navigate to the Merchandising solution to activate the system or to check the status of activation.
For more details on the system activation process see the Merchandising Implementation Guide.