A shopping workflow consists of three sections: the Catalog, Carting, and the Order. This document provides general information on all three in addition to links to more indepth discussion on each.

• The Catalog sub system houses all functionality to get items that can be added to a cart and purchased by the end user.
• See Catalog for more info.

• The cart holds all the information for a user's current shopping session. It includes all items, payments, taxes, discounts, and schedule items that are being considered for the final sale. NOTE: Carts do not support concurrent actions.

• Carting

  • Carting refers to the actions that can be performed on carts. These actions are used to put together a cart that can be checked out.

• Determining your shopping rules

  • To find the shopping rules that apply to you and your intended shopping location call theGET Subscriber/{subscriberId}/Rules/Shopping. This will give you information such as restrictions or settings that must be abided by during your shopping workflows.

• The Shopping Context

  • A shopping context is uniquely identified by a cart's end user and the shopping location. Only one shopping session is allowed per location and end user.
  • A shopping session can be abandoned via the following endpoint: DELETE Subscriber/{subscriberId}/Location/{locationId}/Carts/{cartId}
  • A shopping session's cart can be seen with: GET Subscriber/{subscriberId}/Location/{locationId}/Carts/{cartId}
• See Carting for more info.

• An Order represents a finalized and processed cart. It is a final record of a successfully processed cart.

• Scheduling involves the addition of support for bookings and applying payment to them within the carting workflows.
• Scheduling cuts across all sections of the marketplace workflow: Catalog, Carting, and Order.
• See Reconciliation for more info.