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COMMERCE BASICS

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Store and Site Structure in B2C Accelerator

Commerce Basics

Commerce Basics

Store and Site Structure in B2C Accelerator

BaseCommerce extension

Basic Framework to share items and types across

extensions
Module decoupling
fulfilmentprocess

payment

cmscockpit

cms2

basecommerce

commerceservices

promotions

customerreview

solrfacetsearch

ticketsystem

cscockpit

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BaseStore item type

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BaseStore
Catalog
*
CatalogsForBaseStores

BaseStore2PointOfSe
rviceRelation

StoresForCMSSite

BaseSite

BaseStore
*

PointOfService
*

commerceservices

Currency

Country

Language

Cart and Order

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Cart: Persistent but volatile represents a potential order

Order: Persistent, represents an actual order, placed
by a customer

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Cart lifetime

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Every active session has a distinct cart

Lazy initialized
Persisted by default, to change it to be in memory only:
default.session.cart.type=InMemoryCart
Cart clean-up:
In platform (without accelerator):
Removed when the session times out or is explicitly
invalidated, to change it:
session.remove.cart.on.close=false
In accelerator:
the CartRemovalCronjob will remove carts older
than 2 weeks (configurable)

Order process

Commerce Basics

shop
frontend

Customer
enters

addsproducttocart

session

CartService

OrderService

creates

createsCartEntry
calculate

logsin

assignsuser

checkout

clicksonorderbutton

createsOrder (cart)

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Stock

Commerce Basics

Functionality to manage and query product stock level and product

availability information

Stocks - Data Model

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Available quantity of a product at a certain time

Product stock levels are not updated live
Actual stock level: reported by a warehouse
Local stock level: calculated for keeping track of sold product
quantities

StockLevel

Warehouse
*

StockLevelHistoryEntry

BaseStore

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StockService Use Cases

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Important use cases of StockService

Updating stock levels
Reserving and releasing of products
Returning the total stock level
Returning the stock level for a specific warehouse or many
warehouses
Returning information about product availability for a specific
warehouse or many warehouses
Changing the in stock status for products

Maintaining Stock Levels Reserve and Release

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StockService tracks the number of reserved products since the

last update from a warehouse
Customer buys a product:
stockService.reserve(product,warehouse,quantity, comment)

Customer cancels a purchase:

stockService.release(product,warehouse,quantity, comment);

After warehouse inventory:

stockService.updateActualStockLevel(product,warehouse,amount,
comment);

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