Tools - differences between releases

The following chart shows the different capabilities of the WebSphere Commerce tools between editions and supported releases.

WebSphere Commerce V6

WebSphere Commerce V5.6.1

WebSphere Commerce V5.6

WebSphere Commerce V5.5

Tools

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Line of Business (LOB) Browser Based Tools

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WebSphere Commerce Accelerator Manager functions

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x

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Buyer Administration

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x

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Create/manage organizational information, sub-organizations, and approvers

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Seller Administration

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Business account configuration and management

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Create, change and delete customer accounts and contracts

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x

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Contract lifecycle processing

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Enhancements to business accounts and contracts

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Cascading contracts (reference contracts)

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New Display customization terms and conditions

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Catalog filtering and pricing via a catalog tree view

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Fixed amount price adjustments in the catalog filter

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Changes can be made to the catalog filter and pricing without contract versioning

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Customer groups can be set as buyer groups in a contract

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Excluded categories are not displayed in the store

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Catalog filtering at the category and catalog entry level (excluded categories will not be displayed)

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Contract import and export tool

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Set shipping charge discounts or increases for a business account or contract using the Accounts or Contracts notebooks within WebSphere Commerce Accelerator.

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Customers can use shipping and billing addresses from several address books.

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A Site Administrator, Sales Manager, or Seller can unlock a contract for a user, using WebSphere Commerce Accelerator.

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Create/manage organizational information,sub-organizations, and roles

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member groups

member groups

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member groups

member groups

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member groups

member groups

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member groups

member groups

Create, change and delete customer profiles

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Create, change and delete campaigns and initiatives

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Create, change and delete marketing content

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Create, change and delete e-marketing spots

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Enhancements to the Marketing tools (campaigns, campaign activities, content, e-Marketing Spots)

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Tighter integration of all functions to enable a more continuous flow for setup and management

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Content supports additional commands as click actions

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Display an associated promotion

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Add an associated promotion to a customer's coupon wallet

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Add a product to a customers cart and automatically applying an associated promotion

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Create, change and delete products

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Product Management Tools

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Direct editing on a table of products and associated definitions, images, etc

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Copy, paste, easy editing

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Easy creating of packages and bundles

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Easy creating of merchandise associations for cross-sell and upsell

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Create, change and delete product attributes

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Create prices for products

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Enhancements to the Product Management Tool

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Direct add of SKUs to bundles and kits

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Direct input of SKUs to merchandise associations

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Addition of "replacement" as a merchandise association type

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Create discounts and associate them with products

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Create, change and delete expected inventory

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Create, change and delete vendors

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Create, change and delete coupons

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Enhancements to Promotions

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Redesigned for easier creation

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Entry of promotion codes (shopper entry of promotion code enabled in Consumer Direct starter store)

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Redemption limit on coupons

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Coupons on products, order level or shipping

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Set number of days until coupon expires

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Create, change and close auctions

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Create, change and delete categories

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Create, manage and delete fulfillment centers

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Manage returns

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Inventory management

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At the fulfillment center level

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Pick packer tasks

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Receiver tasks

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View Business Intelligence reports

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Create, change and delete customer orders

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Manage payments

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Catalog Manager standard

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Product Advisor Administration tool for Product Exploration (parametric search) setup

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Store assets such as logos, images, etc can be uploaded via browser based tool

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Differences between editions and releases