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3Store and Site Structure in B2C Accelerator

Store and Site Structure in B2C Accelerator

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4BaseCommerce extension

Basic Framework to share items and types across extensionsModule decoupling

basecommerce commerceservices

paymentfulfilmentprocess

cms2

cmscockpit

ticketsystem cscockpit

promotions customerreview

solrfacetsearch

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5BaseStore item type

BaseStore

commerceservices

Catalog

BaseStore PointOfServiceBaseSite

Currency

Country

Language

BaseStore2PointOfServiceRelationStoresForCMSSite

CatalogsForBaseStores

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6Cart and Order

Cart: Persistent but volatile represents a potential orderOrder: Persistent, represents an actual order, placed by a customer

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7Cart lifetime

Every active session has a distinct cartLazy initializedPersisted by default, to change it to be in memory only:

default.session.cart.type=InMemoryCartCart 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)

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8Order process

Customer shopfrontend session CartService OrderService

enters

addsproducttocart

logsin

checkout

clicksonorderbuttoncreatesOrder (cart)

creates

createsCartEntry

calculate

assignsuser

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9Stock

Functionality to manage and query product stock level and product availability information

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10Stocks - Data Model

Available quantity of a product at a certain timeProduct stock levels are not updated live

Actual stock level: reported by a warehouseLocal stock level: calculated for keeping track of sold product quantities

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StockLevelHistoryEntry BaseStore

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11StockService Use Cases

Important use cases of StockServiceUpdating 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

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12Maintaining Stock Levels Reserve and Release

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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