Up and running with the advanced B2B direct starter store (Enterprise)
This topic provides step-by-step instructions to publish and configure the advanced B2B direct starter store.
The advanced B2B direct starter store supports direct selling to other businesses. This store highlights the tasks a buyer can perform at a seller's e-commerce site. Some of the features included in this starter store are:
- Logon page (shopping restricted to registered customers)
- Buyer registration and approvals
- Buyer organization registration and approvals
- Guest catalog browsing
- Guest shopping (configurable)
- Multiple account shopping
- Entitlement-based catalog browsing
- Contract-based purchasing
- Contract-based pricing
- Contract-based available shipping addresses
- Contract-based available shipping providers and charge types
- Contract-based payment methods
- Backorders
- Current order
- Saved orders
- Future orders
- Expedite orders
- Order history or order status
- Order approvals
- Scheduled orders
- Quick order
- Requisition lists
- Express checkout flow
- Multiple payments per order
- Partial or complete releases
- Available-to-promise inventory
- RFQ requests
- Shipping charge carrier number
- Single or multiple shipping methods
- Single or multiple shipping addresses
- Weight-based shipping
- Shipping charges
- Shipping instructions
- Taxes
- Account-based marketing campaigns
- e-Marketing Spots
- Promotions
- Product search capability (simple and advanced search)
- Categories
- Products, items, bundles or kits
- Defining attributes
- Tiered pricing display
- Merchandising associations
- Portlet-like Configurable Store Display elements
- Collaborative workspaces
- Customer care
Note: Collaboration and customer care are available only if the related reference applications have been installed and configured.
The following diagram shows the steps required to set up your store:
Depending on how the advanced B2B store will be deployed, you may need to perform the steps shown in the diagram on one or more machines.
You will use several tools to publish and set up your store, all these tools can be accessed from a browser. When you use these tools, the changes that you make will be immediately reflected on your site.
- Administration Console
- The Administration Console allows you to control your site or store by completing administrative operations and configuration tasks. If you are a Site Administrator, you select the store and language with which you want to work when you log on to the Administration Console. The tasks that you are authorized to perform display on the Administration Console home page through various menus. These tasks are based on the user group names (roles) and authority levels.
- WebSphere Commerce Accelerator
- The WebSphere Commerce Accelerator allows you to maintain online stores and catalogs by completing various store operations, from managing the look and feel of your store to creating and maintaining orders to tracking store activities. If you are authorized to work with multiple stores, when you log on to the WebSphere Commerce Accelerator, you select the store and language with which you want to work. If you are authorized to work with a single store, the store name is preselected during logon. Additionally, if the store supports more than one language, you can select the language with which you want to work.
- Organization Administration Console
- The Organization Administration Console allows you to set up users at your site. This tool is used both to set up administrators and to register customers to the site.
The advanced B2B starter store provides all the pages and features necessary for a functioning B2B direct online store. It is packaged with WebSphere Commerce as a store archive.
Since store creation in WebSphere Commerce is based upon selecting a starter store archive and modifying it, the advanced B2B starter store is designed to act as the basis for your store. It is based on a typical shopping flow. The starter store pages can be customized. All advanced B2B starter store pages are JavaServer Pages pages. These pages include HTML, Java, and JavaScript. The JSP pages can be cached.
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