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Customize the WebSphere Commerce pricing engine for integration

The Sterling Order Management system can be integrated with the pricing services of WebSphere Commerce to calculate the price of products. By default, the WebSphere Commerce price services calculate pricing based on quality, base offer prices, and price rules, if applicable. For merchants who sell gift cards online, the price for the gift card is not only related to the quantity of the gift card, it is also related to the value points of the card. The value points for a gift card is like the face value of money. The shopper uses the value points, like cash, to buy products in the store.

Use WebSphere Commerce Developer and WebSphere Integration Developer, we can customize the WebSphere Commerce price services and pricing engine to support the additional value points parameter passed by Sterling Order Management. With this new parameter, the Service Definition Framework, and Sterling Order Management need customizing, as well. When finished, we can hard code a Sterling Order Management API to check whether the end-to-end flow is working properly.

Other Customizations:

For information about Storefront customization tools topics for WebSphere Commerce, see
WebSphere Commerce Version 7 Information Center: Storefront customization tools.

For a Tutorial on Customizing the starter store, see Customizing the Aurora starter store.

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