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Up and running with the advanced B2B direct starter store
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
- Support for large shopping carts using multiple pages
- Multiple payments per order
- Partial or complete releases
- Available-to-promise inventory
- RFQ requests
- Ship charge carrier number
- Single or multiple shipping methods
- Single or multiple shipping addresses
- Weight-based shipping
- Ship charges
- Ship instructions
- Taxes
- Account-based marketing campaigns
- e-Marketing Spots
- Promotions
- Product search capability (simple and advanced search)
- Categories
- Products, items, bundles or kits
- Define attributes
- Tiered pricing display
- Merchandising associations
- Portlet-like Configurable Store Display elements
- Customer care
Note: Customer care is available only if the related reference application has been installed and configured.
- Attribute Dictionary
- New e-Marketing engine
The following diagram shows the steps required to set up the 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 the 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 the site.
- Administration Console
- The Administration Console allows you to control the site or store by completing administrative operations and configuration tasks. If you are a Site Administrator, you select the store and language with which 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 the 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 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 to work.
- Organization Administration Console
- The Organization Administration Console allows you to set up users at the 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 the 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.
- Advanced B2B direct store shopping flow
- Sample catalogs
- Advanced B2B direct store account flow
- Advanced B2B direct store RFQ flows
- Publish a store archive using the Publish wizard
Use the Publish wizard to create stores and store related components. - Replace the advanced B2B direct store default information with the store's information
When you publish a store, it includes the same default text and logo that all other advanced B2B direct starter stores receive at creation. As a result, you might want to customize the store to make it reflect the business and the business practices. - Configure the advanced B2B direct store
When you publish the advanced B2B direct starter store, many optional features are enabled. If you do not want them in the store, you can disable those features, and enable others instead, through the Change Flow notebook. - Assign a message type to a transport method for a site or store
If you assign a message type to a particular transport, the transport must first be set active. By default, only the e-mail transport is active at the site-level. If the store does not have a message transport assignment, then the site assignment is used. - Create an organization
Use the Organization Administration Console to create an organization or organizational unit for the site. - Create a customer segment
- Create campaigns
Use the Campaigns to create marketing campaigns. - Create activities for a campaign
Use the Campaign Activity page to create activities. - Create e-Marketing Spots
An e-Marketing spot is the reserved area on a store Web page that is dedicated to displaying personalized marketing content from campaign activities.
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