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Order management (legacy)

The Order Management system includes several features to meet your implementation needs:

  • Full system API. Multiple shopping carts per customer.
  • The ability to incorporate custom shipping and payment gateways or one of the providers included with ECF.
  • The ability to add your own tax provider to the checkout process.
  • Support for recurring/subscription payments.
  • Management of different types of customer addresses.
  • Extension of order classes to contain custom data needed for your system.

The core API for checkout and orders is located in the Mediachase.Commerce.Orders namespace.

Overview

  • OrderContext is a singleton class that retrieves and updates orders through OrderContext.Current.
  • The OrderContext.Current object provides access to most of what you need to retrieve or update orders. The objects returned reflect the object hierarchy. (Note: DTOs are much less common in the order system.)
  • To save data with order objects, call the AcceptChanges() method. It is common to Order and Profile objects.
  • Ancillary classes to retrieve order-related information are in BusinessLayer/CommerceLib/Orders/Managers.
  • The meta-classes used by different objects in the order system (for instance Cart, LineItem, ShippingAddress, and so on) are defined in the ecf.order.config file (both back-end and front-end).

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Last updated: Oct 12, 2015