IBM SG24-6320-00 manual Payment Processing, Offline Orders, Billing/Shipping Selection

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Expected delivery dates have also been implemented for the shipping providers. Custom code was written to calculate the number of expected days that it will take to receive the order. The factors for calculating expected delivery dates are based on the shipping policies of Carrot Ink and each shipping provider. These include exclusion of holidays, non-working days such as Saturday and Sunday, and shipping cut-off times.

Payment Processing

Payment Manger was not implemented in the original the application. The default controller command used for Payment Manager was overridden to implement custom payment processing. The application implements an authorization company for credit card verification. Once the credit card has been verified the order is processed and manually authorized. However, for the purpose of this book, the migration will include the implementation of Payment Manager for order processing.

Offline Orders

Offline orders have also been implemented. At the checkout page, customers have the option of placing the order offline. The customer is given a form to complete which becomes a mail order. Once the customer service department receives the mail order, the order is processed. No order is created in WebSphere Commerce for offline orders so no custom controller commands were written to handle the offline order process. A simple view command was created to display the offline form once the offline order has been submitted.

Billing/Shipping Selection

Another simple modification was to change the order of the select billing address and select shipping address pages. After leaving the shopping cart, the customer is directed to the select shipping address page, followed by the select billing address page.

The application model flow was based upon the InFashion sar file. Figure 4-1illustrates the default shopping flow as packaged with the InFashion store.

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