Commerce Services - Key Concepts and Features

This extension simplifies the access to the B2C ecommerce features.

• Cart merging: The anonymous cart of a customer is merged with his cart from his account.
  • This allows the merging of carts which where created in different devices.
  • The CommerceCartMergingStrategy implements the functionality.
  • The methods CommerceCartService.restore*CartAndMerge call this strategy.

• The data objects can be extended using the files *-beans.xml.
• The commerce cart and checkout services support hooks for the payment authorization, the addition of a product to the cart, the calculation of the cart and placing an order. Attention: They can be disabled using properties.
• Services
  • Catalogs
    • Commerce Category Service: Looks for categories which belong to the catalogs in the session.
    • Commerce Price Service: Replaces the price service. Only simple price calculations are supported by this service. The price services supports complex calculations.
      • NetGrossStrategy: Determines what type of prices must be shown in the frontend.
      • It allows to send the userTaxGroup.
      • RecalculateExternalTaxesStrategy determines if external taxes must be calculated
      • If true, the CalculateExternalTaxesStrategy, TaxCodeStrategy and TaxAreaLookupStrategy are called.
    • Commerce Product Service: Allows to filter using classification attributes and categories.
  • Orders
    • The Commerce Cart Service: It replaces the CartService and adds promotions and stock calculation and cart merging.
    • Commerce Stock Service replaces Stock Service and add a relation between PointOfService and Warehouse.

• Commerce Checkout Service: replaces Order and Cart Services.
• Delivery Service: Returns the delivery rules applied to the current store.
• Customer Account Service
• CustomerAccountServices not only manages the user profile but also address books, past orders and payment information.
• Customer Email Resolution Service
• Secure Token Service used by the forgotten password function.
• StoreFinderServices replaces StoreLocatorService.
• CommmerceI18nService provides internationalization settings related to the current store.
• Commerce Promotion Service
• Merge Directive Services: Control how properties with lists and maps are be merged in Spring.
• Changes to the data model
• product.summary and product.galleryImages: Media Container List
• customer review have an approval status
• order.basestore and order.site to track the source of an order.
• Each Abstract Order Entry may have a point of service.
• baseStore.net, baseStore.taxGroup, baseStore.StoreLocatorDistanceUnit
• The DefaultSetupSyncJobService can be configurated using Spring.

–Based on Hybris 6.4