Extending an SOI service with UserData

Customization of the Order noun by using the UserData field. This involves extending the Order noun of the Web services architecture to include new information. UserData is used to transfer the new Order information from the front end to WebSphere Commerce where it persists to the database. 

Please visit the below link to know the steps.

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WCS Commands in Catalog Subsystem

The Catalog Subsystem contains all logic and data relevant to an online catalog, including catalog groups (or categories), catalog entries, and any associations or relationships among them. Below page talks about the major commands involved in the susbsystem.

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WCS Order Management Commnds

The Order Management subsystem includes all logic and data relevant to placing, processing, and managing orders.  This is done using various commands. Some of the key commands are explained in the  below page.

Key commands in Order Management Subsystems

WCS Promotions

Promotions provide the ability to offer customers incentives to purchase. WebSphere Commerce supports numerous types of promotions. For example, price promotions that include offering simple discounts; merchandise specials such as gifts with purchase and buy-one-get-one. More service promotions are available that include offering reduced shipping costs. Business users create and manage promotions with the Promotions tool in the Management Center. 

To know more about promotions please click the below link.

Promotions: http://wcs-tips.blogspot.in/p/blog-page_25.html

Promotion Engine: http://wcs-tips.blogspot.in/p/promotion-engine.html

WCS Marketing Subsystem

The Marketing subsystem is a component of the WebSphere Commerce Server, and provides numerous marketing concepts to your site, designed to increase brand awareness, and to attract and retain customers. Components of the marketing subsystem provide functionality to create marketing campaigns, including customer segments and advertising; and e-mail activities. All of these components can be extensively customized to ensure that your site's marketing strategy matches that of your brick and mortar store.

WCS Calculation Framework

WCS need to calculate monetary amounts and apply them to business objects. Business rules and legal requirements specify how and when these monetary amounts should be calculated. When these rules and requirements change,WCS can adapt to the changes with little or no programming changes.

WebSphere Commerce provides a flexible, generic framework that can be used to implement different kinds of calculations and apply them to the business objects. The framework can handle a wide variety of business and legal requirements without programming.  

WebSphere Commerce provides a number of method implementations from which you can select to do the calculations. If business or legal requirements require a programming change, you can make many such changes just by programming additional method implementations, without having to change existing programming. These implementations can be overridden.

The calculation framework is part of the WebSphere Commerce order subsystem. The order subsystem is a component of the WebSphere Commerce Server that provides shopping carts, order processing, and order management function support. The order system also includes related services, such as pricing, taxation, payment, inventory, and fulfillment.

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WCS Payment Subsystem

The Payments subsystem helps us manage the payment information. It connects to Payment Service Providers by using payment plug-ins. Payment server concept in WCS 5.0, this has been replaced with payment subsystem. A new payment plugin can be created for interacting with external payment systems.

Click the following link to know more about Payment Subsystem.

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