In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for management and delivery of shoppable content data. A modeled content architecture can be provided within a content management system (CMS), such as for example, an Oracle Content and Experience Cloud (CEC) environment. The modeled content architecture can include document-type objects that represent a type of document, and field objects that represent a type of field that can be added to a document. The document-type objects and field objects can include attributes that describe the objects. An admin API operates as a contract between the CMS and a commerce provider system, for example an online retailer, and facilitates communication and data exchange between the CMS and the commerce provider.