Oracle® Istore: Quick Reference Guide Release 12
Oracle® Istore: Quick Reference Guide Release 12
Oracle® Istore: Quick Reference Guide Release 12
October 2006
Oracle iStore Quick Reference Guide, Release 12
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Contents
Preface
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Preview Mode............................................................................................................................ 2-4
Display Template Mappings Import/Export............................................................................ 2-4
Customer Application Display................................................................................................. 2-4
Display Templates..................................................................................................................... 2-5
Section and Product Template Gallery..................................................................................... 2-5
Bin Display................................................................................................................................ 2-5
Images, Messages, and HTML Content.................................................................................... 2-5
Content Management................................................................................................................ 2-6
Content Repository.................................................................................................................... 2-6
Content Components and Media Objects................................................................................ 2-7
Optional Integration with Oracle Content Manager................................................................ 2-7
Catalog Management................................................................................................................. 2-8
Section Hierarchy...................................................................................................................... 2-8
Product Catalog......................................................................................................................... 2-8
Reports..................................................................................................................................... 2-10
E-Mail Notifications................................................................................................................ 2-12
Background Data Management.............................................................................................. 2-12
3 Customer Application
Specialty Sites............................................................................................................................ 3-1
Specialty Sites Overview.......................................................................................................... 3-2
Catalog Pages Overview............................................................................................................ 3-3
Shopping Carts.......................................................................................................................... 3-4
Shopping Cart Key Features and Benefits................................................................................ 3-4
Active, Saved, and Shared Shopping Carts.............................................................................. 3-5
Published and Shared Quotes...................................................................................................3-8
Shopping Lists......................................................................................................................... 3-10
Order Placement and Tracking............................................................................................... 3-10
Checkout and Order Placement.............................................................................................. 3-10
Express Checkout.................................................................................................................... 3-11
Order Tracking, Cancellation, and Returns............................................................................ 3-12
Users and Registration............................................................................................................ 3-13
User Types and Access............................................................................................................ 3-13
User Registration..................................................................................................................... 3-13
B2B User and Role Management.............................................................................................3-14
Storage of User and Company Information............................................................................3-15
Opting In or Out...................................................................................................................... 3-15
Index
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Preface
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Structure
1 Introduction to Oracle iStore
2 Site Administration Application
3 Customer Application
Integration Repository
The Oracle Integration Repository is a compilation of information about the service
endpoints exposed by the Oracle E-Business Suite of applications. It provides a
complete catalog of Oracle E-Business Suite's business service interfaces. The tool lets
users easily discover and deploy the appropriate business service interface for
integration with any system, application, or business partner.
The Oracle Integration Repository is shipped as part of the E-Business Suite. As your
instance is patched, the repository is automatically updated with content appropriate
for the precise revisions of interfaces in your environment.
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and you risk unpredictable results throughout Oracle Applications.
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of who changes information. If you enter information into database tables using
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record of changes.
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Introduction to Oracle iStore
Introduction
Fully integrated with the Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle iStore is a powerful tool that
allows businesses to create and manage online e-commerce sites. A highly configurable
Java application, Oracle iStore employs Oracle foundation and back-end applications
along with its own comprehensive Java and PL/SQL programming and logic to deliver
a high-end application that responds to the growing need for online commerce in
The Site Administration Application allows site administrators to create and maintain
multiple sites, catalogs, and related business rules, as well as access business and
operational reports.
Site Administration features and functionality are covered in Chapter 2, Site
Administration User Interface.
• The Customer Application:
This is the customer-facing application which features shopping carts and lists, cart
sharing, a full range of order taking and tracking capabilities, e-mail notifications of
user events, quote retrieval and updates, marketing, guided selling, and more.
The Customer Application features and functionality are covered in Chapter 3,
Customer User Interface.
Together, the Site Administration and Customer user interfaces provide a compelling
e-commerce package.
Integration with other Oracle applications provides support and additional
functionality, including:
• Oracle Forms and HTML technology stacks
• Inventory management
• Flexible pricing
• Order processing
• Content management
In addition, organizations can build integrated sites which support users of Oracle
iSupport and Oracle Partner Management applications. Integration with Oracle Web
Analytics allows tracking of site visits and provides a wide range of site tracking
reports.
Key features and benefits of Oracle iStore are discussed in this section.
• Configure the display order of site names as they are presented in the Customer UI
• Set different price lists on each site for each user type (guest, B2C, B2B, partners)
• Set attributes at the site level (such as allowing guest users, allowing ATP checks,
etc.)
• Enable tracking and metrics reporting sites, if integrating with Oracle Web
Analytics.
Leveraging a unified, central application and repository of products and content, each
site can have its own:
• Name
• Product catalog
• Section hierarchy
• Target users
• Currency
• Language
• Price lists
• Payment types
• Shipping methods
• Access restrictions
• Effective dates
Catalog Management
A full catalog management application is provided in the Site Administration
Application, giving you a highly configurable Internet product presentation.
Leveraging the powerful Oracle Inventory on the back-end and Oracle iStore's section
building tool in the Site Administration Application, the Catalog is a flexible tool which
supports multiple languages and currencies. Highlights include:
• A section (catalog) hierarchy that can be as simple or complex as your business
requirements necessitate. Sections are created in parent-child relationships.
Products "hang" on nodes of the section hierarchy.
• Ability to control the browsing experience of the customer through section and
subsection presentation.
• A built-in search utility which allows you to locate a product by entering several
criteria, including product name, number, category, description, as well as
searching by sites that contain the product.
• Product search can support both Section Search and Category Search.
• A Display Template gallery which lets you quickly pick, in WYSIWYG fashion, the
layout of individual or groups of sections and products.
• Configurable bins to which you can map your own JSPs and position along the
sides, tops, and bottoms of catalog, shopping cart, and user registration pages.
Several of the bins are pre-seeded with content.
• Support for several product types, including serviceable items, configured items,
and model bundles.
• Optional integration with Oracle Marketing allows you to create and maintain
Inventory products, product templates, and several other product parameters.
Content Management
A Content Repository and reusable content components allow you to store, easily
retrieve, and configure content to display in the specialty sites. Highlights include:
• Hundreds of configurable Display Templates present the Customer UI. This rich
catalog display environment presents a multitude of possibilities for mapping
content files to alter the look and feel of the specialty sites.
• Concurrent programs that allow you to copy sections with 1000-plus children and
to cascade layout mappings to child sections.
• Components and objects that are organized by type of display they effect.
• Framework for reusing a single source file in any number of site catalog pages.
• Optional integration with Oracle Content Manager to provide content item creation,
versioning, approvals, and a translation interface.
• Contract negotiations
• Shared carts
• Registration confirmation
In addition, e-mail messages can be configured by organization, store, and user type,
giving you immense flexibility in communicating with your customers.
This functionality is provided through Oracle iStore's integration with Oracle
Workflow.
• Two concurrent programs export or import Display Template mappings using XML
files.
• The iStore Autoplacement concurrent program can be used to populate leaf sections
with products from Oracle Inventory categories.
• Ability to prevent primary users from creating other users by setting a profile
option.
• Online Access to Existing Account functionality provides quick online access for
users who have placed orders through channels other than Oracle iStore.
• Support for customers integrated with Oracle iSupport and Oracle Partner
Management.
• Supplied integration with the Oracle customer data storage model, Oracle Trading
Community Architecture (TCA), provides the ability to maintain customer
information and complex party relationships.
• Address Book and Payment Book functionality in the Customer Application allows
users to maintain their own data.
• Optional integration with Oracle Quoting allows interactive selling and online user
assistance.
• Oracle Multiple Organization Architecture gives you the ability to create and
manage multiple organizations, inventory units, and warehouses internationally.
• Multiple currency support allows you to deploy sites --- with targeted products and
prices --- in any country.
• The globally-oriented Site Selection Page is the default landing page for the
Customer UI. It displays all sites in your implementation, with separate links for
each supported language.
• Templates which can show taxes, payment and shipping methods, and address
formats which are particular to a country for which the site has been set up.
• Collaborative quoting
• Call-me-back functionality
• Sophisticated pricing
• Returns
• Order tracking
• Shopping lists
• Order cancellation
• Express checkout
• Order returns
• Order tracking, including the ability to view invoice, shipping, and payment details
• Published quotes, sales assistance and Terms and Conditions fully integrated with
• Runtime Services and APIs: The coupling of certain common services available
within all e-commerce applications (Oracle Foundation) and Java-based APIs
(includes some PL/SQL APIs). This combination queries Oracle iStore's persistent
storage of objects and relationships and enables update operations.
• Support for Internet technologies: Oracle iStore offers specific support for
implementing the caching of Web pages, secure socket layer connections,
de-militarized zone environments, and search engine indexing.
• Oracle Receivables calculates taxes and generates invoices. Bundled with the install
of Oracle Receivables is the Oracle centralized data repository for customer
information -- the Trading Community Architecture (TCA) model. Customer
registration information is maintained in the TCA/Oracle Receivables schema.
• Oracle E-Business Tax provides tax rate information for Oracle iStore.
• Oracle General Ledger (GL) provides business unit information to Oracle iStore. In
it, you can define your accounting structure, business calendars, define and enable
currencies, and manage your business units.
• Oracle Inventory serves as the repository of products that can be sold through
Oracle iStore.
• The Oracle Order Management suite of applications processes, records, and tracks
customer orders and shipping details; allows you to set up basic pricing; allows
setup of payment and shipping options; and can facilitate returned orders. Oracle
Order Management integrates with Oracle iStore via Oracle Order Capture APIs
and schema.
For more information, see the Oracle iStore Implementation and Administration Guide and
the respective product documentation.
• Oracle Advanced Supply Chain: Use Oracle Advanced Supply Chain (Global ATP
Server) to provide product availability information.
• Oracle Application Server Web Cache: Use Oracle Application Server Web Cache
to serve the non-transactional Oracle iStore content.
• Oracle Bills of Material: Use Oracle Bills of Material to set up configurable items,
model bundles, and items with standard warranties for sale in your sites.
• Oracle Call Center Technology: Use the Oracle Call Center Technology (CCT) suite
of applications to process call-me-back requests.
• Oracle Customer Care: The Oracle Customer Care suite of applications provides a
complete view of the customer by displaying relevant customer information.
Customer Care allows agents to alter customer data and create interactions with the
customer.
• Oracle Installed Base: Use Oracle Installed Base to maintain -- and allow customers
to maintain -- a repository of purchase information, including purchase date,
product attributes, and applicable service agreements. Oracle Install Base maintains
information about purchased products in a tree structure showing all of the parent
and child assemblies.
• Oracle Marketing: Use Oracle Marketing to define, execute, and manage marketing
campaigns, budgets, and segments across all channels, and to define promotions
and discounts. You also can use Oracle Marketing to allow the creation and
management of Oracle Inventory products.
• Oracle Partner Management: You can integrate Oracle iStore specialty sites with
Oracle Partner Management to provide support for users of both applications.
• Oracle Quoting: Use Oracle Quoting to create quotes that can be published to
Oracle iStore web specialty sites and to capture carts as quotes when users request
Sales Assistance.
• Oracle Sales Applications: Use Oracle Sales Online and Oracle TeleSales to import
sales leads from Oracle iStore orders and expired shopping carts.
• Oracle Sales Contracts: Use Oracle Sales Contracts for Terms and Conditions,
Contract Expert, and Unstructured Contract Terms functionality.
• Oracle Service Contracts: Oracle Service Contracts can assist in providing support
for selling serviceable items and their related services in the Customer Application.
• Oracle Single Sign-On Server: Use Oracle Single Sign-On Server to provide
single-authentication architecture.
• Oracle Web Analytics: Use Oracle Web Analytics to track Oracle iStore Customer
Application Web site visits and to report on these visits.
For more information, see the Oracle iStore Implementation and Administration Guide and
the respective product documentation.
• Site Naming: You decide both the internal names and the display names of your
sites. In the Customer Application site selection page, the display names are
presented for customer selection. Each display name corresponds to an Oracle
iStore customer responsibility, which is in turn mapped to a default operating unit.
Oracle iStore can either automatically alphabetize this display list, or you can set
the display order yourself.
• Site Duplication: At any time, you can select a site and copy it. Duplicating a site
means all associated parameters, catalog, and content also are available to the
copied site.
• Site Languages: Each site can support any language supported by the Oracle
E-Business Suite. In addition to the base language, sites can support multiple other
languages. The languages then are presented in the Customer Application Site
Selection Page as hyperlinks next to the site names. Users simply select the
appropriate language to enter the site in the language of their choice.
• Site Currencies and Price Lists: Any number of installed currencies and
implemented price lists can be associated with a site, allowing you to sell your
products in any country, and to provide product prices to different user segments.
Separate price lists can be assigned, per site, for guest users, B2B users, B2C users,
and partner users. Oracle iStore also supports multiple-currency price and
site-specific price lists, and several options are available for setting up pricing
qualifiers and modifiers.
• Payment Types: You can provide any type of payment option to your customers,
which can then be processed in other Oracle applications. Each site can have its
own set of payment types. You can also provide automatic online authorization of
credit cards in your online sites.
• Payment Thresholds: The payment threshold feature allows you to set order
amount thresholds for specific payment types. With this feature, orders over a
certain amount offer specific payment type choices for the customer.
• User Security: Oracle iStore features built-in security rules which tie each site
uniquely to one or more customer responsibilities. You can decide whether to allow
guest user access, or to restrict browsing only to registered users.
• Site Groups: Oracle iStore allows administrators to organize sites into groups. The
sites then display by group in the Site Selection Page and in the seeded group bins
which can be mapped on catalog pages in the Customer Application. Three groups
are seeded, the names of which are extensible lookups -- Stores, Support, and
Partners.
• Access Restrictions: You can set up access restrictions by organization; this allows
you to restrict access to only users from a certain organization or organizations; or
you can restrict users from certain organizations from accessing your sites.
• Check Product Availability: For each site, you can provide customers with the
ability to check product availability from the shopping cart.
• Customer Data Capture: Oracle iStore's Lead Import functionality allows you to
capture and re-use information from expired shopping carts and orders, and to
potentially use them in Oracle Sales applications. Integration with Oracle
Marketing's Event Capture means you can also capture some of the customers'
browsing habits in your sites.
• Visitor Tracking: Integration with Oracle Web Analytics provides metrics, by site,
about visitor activities in your Oracle iStore or third-party sites.
• Global eCommerce Support: Oracle iStore supports a global product catalog and
The iStore Administrator uses the Sites menu in the Site Administration Application to
perform site creation and maintenance tasks.
Preview Mode
Simply by selecting the Preview button in the application, site administrators can see
how the sites will look to customers in the Customer Application. In Preview mode, all
sites -- regardless of Published or Unpublished status -- can be previewed.
See the Oracle iStore Implementation and Administration Guide for complete details.
See the "Advanced Display" chapter in the Oracle iStore Implementation and
Administration Guide for complete details.
Display Templates
The bulk of the Customer Application display is presented through the hundreds of
Display Templates that are seeded in Oracle iStore. Display Templates are of various
types, depending upon which areas of the Customer Application they are meant to
display. For example, some templates display the shopping cart pages, some display the
catalog pages, and other templates display the order tracking pages. Each template used
in the online sites links to a JSP which provides the actual display content. By mapping
your own JSPs to the seeded templates, you can provide your own customized content
in the sites.
For complete information, see the "Implementing the Catalog" and "Advanced Display"
chapters in the Oracle iStore Implementation and Administration Guide.
Bin Display
Oracle iStore's Display Template functionality allows you to map bins with specific JSP
content into the top, bottom, and sides of the site selection, catalog, shopping cart, and
registration pages. Section page bins can be configured in two ways -- using fixed
layout, where every catalog section page shows the mapped bins in the same location
on every page, or using configurable layout, where bins can be placed on the page of a
specific section and in a specific location.
For complete information, see the "Implementing the Catalog" chapter of the Oracle
iStore Implementation and Administration Guide.
Content Management
Oracle iStore comes with an extensive content management system which features
reusable content placeholders known as content components and logical media objects
which map to source files. The seeded Display Templates contain programmatic access
names used to call the seeded content components and media objects. Using content
components and media objects, you can provide a wide variety of reusable content in
the specialty sites.
Oracle iStore's Content Repository in the Site Administration Application utilizes the
file system and database for storage. Advanced content integration is available through
Oracle Content Manager as well.
For complete information, see the "Implementing Content" chapter of the Oracle iStore
Implementation and Administration Guide.
Content Repository
The Content Repository in the Site Administration Application allows you to view and
upload the source files used in your site pages. The Content Repository page lists the
source files in your Content Repository, and allows you to preview the files. It also
allows access to other pages where you can upload and update source files.
In the Content Repository page you can:
• View all source files that have been uploaded to the Content Repository
• Access the Upload/Update Source File pages, where you can upload source files for
the repository
For complete information, see the "Implementing Content" chapter of the Oracle iStore
Implementation and Administration Guide.
• Content versioning
• Association of content items to Oracle iStore site products, sections, and media
objects
Oracle Content Manager provides content management building blocks and manages
unstructured data through create, approval, publish, and release lifecycles. Oracle
Content Manager features a central repository that manages folders, versions, and
translations, and enables an organization to collaboratively work on content with
associated workflows.
Oracle Content Manager gives users a system with the essential tools required to create
and manage any type of content, in the way that best suits their business needs. This
powerful tool enables companies to produce consistent content that can be shared
across internal and external customers.
Following the integration of Oracle Content Manager, the subtabs within the Site
Administration UI's Content tab change to those provided by the integration.
For complete information, see the "Integrating Oracle iStore with Oracle Content
Manager" chapter of the Oracle iStore Implementation and Administration Guide.
Section Hierarchy
Oracle iStore's section hierarchy allows you organize your sites into logical sections
connected in parent-child relationships, and to re-use these sections, their product
associations, and their content in multiple sites.
In combination with the Display Templates, your site sections --- connected in a
hierarchal fashion --- help determine the browsing path for the customer in your
Customer Application specialty sites. All driven from the main Root section, together
the sections, subsections, and products in your sites form a tree-like structure with
which you present your product catalog. Once you create a section, you can use it in
any number of sites. You also can choose to exclude certain sections from sites.
Using the Sections pages, you can:
• Create and manage sections
• Set Display Templates at the section level -- Display Templates determine the
layout of the page which displays the section in the Customer Application
• Preview sections in the context of the specialty site(s) in which they will appear
The majority of section creation and maintenance tasks are performed using the
Sections pages accessible within the Catalog tab in the Site Administration Application.
For complete information, see the "Implementing the Catalog" chapter of the Oracle
iStore Implementation and Administration Guide.
Product Catalog
In a typical implementation, Oracle Inventory is the repository of all products sold
• Set the Web Publish Inventory flag, which is identical functionally to the
Published/Unpublished iStore flag
• Set Display Templates at the product level -- Display Templates determine the
layout of the page which displays the product in the Customer Application
For complete information, see the "Implementing the Catalog" chapter of the Oracle
iStore Implementation and Administration Guide.
• Price list maintenance, including changing item prices and Units of Measure
• Oracle Bills of Material to set up configurable items, model bundles, and items
with standard warranties for sale in your sites.
• Oracle Configurator to enable --- in the Oracle iStore Customer Application ---
customer-configured products, guided selling, solution-based modeling, and
limited shopping cart validations.
• Oracle Service Contracts to enable the sale of serviceable items and their related
services (e.g., extended warranties) in the Customer Application.
• ATP Information --- Oracle iStore ships with the ability to check the Oracle
Inventory ATP columns; the flag is enabled during site creation. You also can
integrate with Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning for global ATP.
The majority of product maintenance tasks are performed using the Products pages
accessible within the Catalog tab in the Site Administration Application.
• Configured items
• Model bundles
• Service items
Reports
Oracle iStore supplies a variety of data that feeds the metrics in several e-commerce
business intelligence and operational reports. The operational reports are presented in
Oracle Discoverer Viewer and the e-commerce intelligence reports in Oracle Web
Analytics, which leverages both the Oracle Business Intelligence (BIS) and Oracle Web
Analytics reporting. Together, these reports provide a rich collection of valuable data
about your sites, your customers, and their ordering activity.
Oracle Web Analytics reports present the following data:
• Web product interest, including number of product and product category views
• Web customer acquisitions and activity, including top ordering customers and
customer activity by customer classification
• Web campaign analyses, featuring direct integration with Oracle Marketing and
Oracle Interaction History
• Web page interest reporting on Oracle iStore and external site page views, page
view duration and the like
• Number of carts created over time, and the number and amounts of carts converted
to orders
For complete information, see the "Implementing Reports" chapter of the Oracle iStore
Implementation and Administration Guide, and the Oracle Web Analytics Implementation and
Administration Guide.
• Contracts actions
• Lead Import: The lead import concurrent program sends customer data from
Oracle iStore into tables that can be accessed by the Oracle Sales applications.
For more information, see the "Concurrent Programs" chapter in the Oracle iStore
Implementation and Administration Guide.
Specialty Sites
After you build a site in the Site Administration Application and tie a customer
responsibility to it, it becomes a specialty site in the Customer Application.
Site Groups
In the Site Administration Application, administrators can use the site grouping
functionality to organize specialty sites into groups. The site grouping functionality
supports your integration with Oracle iSupport and Oracle Partner Management
applications. Seeded groups include: Stores, Support, and Partners. These groups are
presented in the Customer Application, allowing you to categorize your specialty site
presentation by purpose or application. Additional groups can be created as well.
For more information, see the "Implementing Site Management" chapter of the Oracle
iStore Implementation and Administration Guide.
• Navigational links for browsing, including a Browse Bin that displays all specialty
sites and allows drill-down into site sections
See the Oracle iStore Implementation and Administration Guide for complete details.
Shopping Carts
In Oracle iStore's Customer Application, shopping carts enable customers to store
products that they may wish to purchase and then ultimately to purchase these items.
• Duplicate carts
• Share carts and quotes with other users, who then are allowed to re-share the carts
and quotes
• Configure items through guided selling and purchase model bundle items
• Turn on or off specific cart features, including shopping lists, cart sharing, and
quote publishing
• Utilize Oracle Workflow for e-mail notifications of user events and activities
Security inherent in Oracle iStore ensures that customers do not access each others' carts
and information.
For complete information, see the "Implementing Carts and Orders" chapter of the
Oracle iStore Implementation and Administration Guide.
• Carts Shared With You: Carts being shared with a B2B user display here.
• Cart Retrieval Textbox: B2C customers enter the unique cart retrieval number
in a textbox to retrieve their shared carts.
The cart names are hyperlinks with which users can access the Saved Cart Details or
Shared Cart Details pages. B2C users must enter the unique cart retrieval number in the
textbox or select the URL hyperlink in the notification e-mail. From these pages, users
can activate the carts and modify them.
• Share the cart: This begins the process of sharing the cart. The Share Cart action
only appears if the site administrator has enabled this feature.
• Duplicate the cart: Users select the Duplicate Cart action to create a copy of the cart.
Copied carts are saved with a new, user-defined name.
• Checkout/Place Order: Users press the Checkout button to enter the checkout
phase and place an order with the cart.
Once the user activates the cart by updating the cart or checking out, the cart becomes
the active cart.
Shared Carts
Partner, B2B and B2C customers can utilize Oracle iStore's shopping cart sharing
functionality to shop and purchase products collaboratively. Site administrators can
turn the feature on/off by setting a profile option.
Cart sharing enables multiple users to make changes to a cart. The actions that a user
receiving a shared cart (cart member) can perform depend on the role granted by the
user initiating the cart sharing (cart owner). Customers with the required role can
re-share carts with other users. Cart updates can be seen in real-time by all customers
associated with the cart. The cart owner or a recipient with Administrator role can then
place an order with the cart.
Automatically generated e-mail notifications and the ability to enter comments keep
shared cart members informed of shared cart activities. Users sharing carts can
selectively notify members on the cart. For example, when a cart member shares a cart,
re-shares a cart, or changes members' access levels, the member can choose which
recipients to notify about the changes, adding comments if desired. When the owner
stops sharing a cart or an order is placed with a shared cart, all recipients are informed
that the cart is no longer available.
Active Carts
Once the user activates the cart by updating the cart or pressing Checkout, the cart
becomes the active cart. In the active cart, the customer can perform a variety of
activities, as described below. Note that some of this functionality requires additional
setups and, possibly, integration with other Oracle applications.
Cart Activities
Following are the typical cart activities. Different activities will be available depending
upon status of the cart (active/inactive, saved, shared, etc.)
• Continue Shopping: Customers can select the Continue Shopping button to
continue browsing the web site and potentially add more items to the active cart.
• Save the Cart: Customers can name and save carts for later retrieval.
• Remove Items: Customers can select the Remove icon to remove items from the
cart.
• View Product Details: Customers can select product names to view details of
products in the cart.
• Add Services: If applicable, customers can select the Add Service hyperlink to add
services (e.g., warranties) to a product in the cart.
• Use Promotion Codes: Customers can enter promotion codes that have been
pre-defined.
• Share the Cart: If the functionality is enabled, customers can select share the cart
with other customers.
• Save as List: If the functionality is enabled, customers can save the items in the cart
to a shopping list.
• Checkout: Customers can select Checkout to enter the checkout phase and
eventually place the order.
• Express Checkout: If the functionality is enabled, customers can submit the cart as
an Express Checkout order.
For complete information, see the Oracle iStore Implementation and Administration Guide
chapter, "Implementing Carts and Orders".
• Shared Quotes: Customers' shared quotes appear in the shared quotes area,
separated by type:
• Quotes Shared By You --- Quotes the user is currently sharing with other users
appear here.
• Quotes Shared With You --- Quotes being shared with a B2B user display here.
• Quote Retrieval Textbox --- B2C user enter the unique quote retrieval number
in a textbox to retrieve shared quotes.
Published Quotes
One of the many features of Oracle Quoting is the ability for sales representatives to
build and then publish quotes to Oracle iStore users in the Customer Application. In
addition to originating as published quotes from Oracle Quoting, quotes also can be
carts that have become quotes when a customer requests sales representative assistance
during checkout. Site administrators also can allow user updating of quotes in the
specialty sites.
In the Quotes page, customers select the hyperlink of a published quote to retrieve the
Quote Details page. In the Quote Details page, customers cannot alter quote
information unless the site administrator has enabled the update quote feature.
Non-updateable quotes can only have their payment information changed. Users can
check out with a quote to place the quote's items as an order, or they can share the
quote with other users.
Shared Quotes
If the site administrator has enabled the share cart functionality, users can share and
re-share quotes with others in a similar manner as they would share carts.
To share or re-share a quote, users select the Share Quote action from the Quote Details
page, and then select recipients and roles for the recipients.
For complete information, see the "Implementing Carts and Orders" chapter in the
Oracle iStore Implementation and Administration Guide.
Shopping Lists
Shopping lists allow users to save items in shopping carts to lists, and then add the
items in the list of the current active cart for checkout. Site administrators can turn the
feature on/off by setting a profile option. Shopping lists are accessible in the Shopping
Lists subtab in the Cart menu in the Customer Application.
For complete information, see the "Implementing Carts and Orders" chapter in the
Oracle iStore Implementation and Administration Guide.
Express Checkout
Available for all registered users and controllable by a profile option, Express Checkout
allows orders to be submitted as batch jobs through a concurrent program. Oracle iStore
automatically places the orders, depending on how often the concurrent program is
run.
Customers must enable Express Checkout and set up their Express Checkout
preferences before they can use the feature. Site administrators can enable/disable
Express Checkout simply by setting a profile option. Once enabled, in the Oracle iStore
Customer Application, the Express Checkout preferences link appears in the Welcome
bin, and the Express Checkout Preferences page is available through the Profile menu.
Express Checkout is available from the catalog and shopping cart pages.
Order Tracking
In the Customer Application, the Orders button gives customers access to the following
order information and functionality:
• Search mechanism, including advanced searches
• Order details
• Invoice details
• Payment details
• Shipping details
For B2B customers, only orders belonging to their current organization display. The
ability to see orders across an organization can be removed through a permission
supplied in the seeded B2B user role.
• Business partner regular B2B users and primary users of Oracle Partner
Management
In addition to the standard user registration, Oracle iStore also offers Online Access to
Existing Account registration, whereby users who have placed an order via a channel
other than iStore can register and gain immediate access to their existing orders.
Access to the specialty sites is controlled through the use of responsibilities and -- in the
case of B2B users -- by associating roles with the users. Responsibilities and roles are
awarded during registration by implicit enrollments. Various approval processes can be
defined, depending upon your business requirements.
For more information, see the Oracle iStore Implementation and Administration Guide,
"Implementing User Management" chapter.
User Registration
Typically, Oracle iStore users register in the Registration page in the Customer
Application. B2B users select the option to register as a member of an organization,
while B2C customers register as individuals. If integrating with Oracle iSupport, these
users also utilize the Oracle iStore B2B and B2C user registration links. If integrating
with Oracle Partner Management, users select the primary partner and regular business
partner registration links provided on Oracle iStore's registration page. Oracle iStore
framework also supports the Online Access to Existing Account functionality, whereby
users who have placed an order via some other channel than Oracle iStore can register
and gain access to their orders information.
• Creating returns
• Cancelling orders
A complete list of the Oracle iStore B2B permissions can be found in the "Seeded User
Data" appendix in the Oracle iStore Implementation and Administration Guide.
Opting In or Out
Several Oracle applications --- such as Oracle Sales and Oracle TeleSales --- can send
marketing communications to customers whose contact information is captured by
Oracle iStore. In the registration, Profile, and checkout pages, Oracle iStore captures
customer addresses and other personal data, and this data can be used for marketing
purposes.
Users may choose whether or not to receive marketing communications. A checkbox in
the registration and Profile pages enables this choice. Users can select the checkbox to
receive marketing information ("opt in") or deselect it to refuse marketing information
B E
billing information, 3-10 e-mail notifications, 1-7, 2-12
bins Express Checkout, 3-8, 3-11
configurable layout, 2-5
G
C globalization support, 1-9, 2-3
cancel orders, 3-12
Carts page, 3-5 I
catalog
integrations, 1-12, 1-12
overview, 3-3
iStore Administrator, 2-4
catalog management, 1-5, 2-8
checkout
J
entering billing information, 3-10
entering shipping information, 3-10 JavaServer Pages, 2-4
overview, 3-10 JSPs, 2-4
sales rep assistance, 3-9
terms and conditions, 3-11 L
concurrent programs, 1-7, 2-12 Lead Import, 2-3
content login assistance, 3-14
optional integrations, 2-7
overview, 2-5, 2-6 M
content components, 1-6, 2-7
mandatory integrations, 1-12
Content Repository
marketing, 1-11, 3-15
introduction, 1-6
media objects, 2-7
overview, 2-6
customer information, 3-15
Index-1
display templates, 2-5
N hierarchy, 2-8
introduction, 1-5
notifications, 1-7
overview, 2-8
security, 2-3
O
shipping information, 3-10
opt-in/opt-out, 3-15 shopping carts
optional integrations, 1-12 active, 3-5, 3-7
Oracle Content Manager, 2-7 key features, 3-4
Oracle iStore overview, 3-4
overview, 1-1 saved, 3-5, 3-6
Oracle iSupport, 2-2 shared, 3-5, 3-6
Oracle Partner Management, 2-2 shopping lists, 3-10
order placement, 3-10 shopping lists, 3-10
orders Site Administration Application
cancellation, 3-12 introduction, 1-3
express checkout, 3-11 sites
tracking, 3-12 access restrictions, 2-3
check product availability, 2-3
P currencies, 2-2
preview mode, 2-4 duplicating, 2-2
pricing agreements, 3-8 groups, 2-3
products languages, 2-2
check availability, 3-8 main features, 2-2
display template, 2-5 naming, 2-2
optional integrations, 2-9 overview, 2-2
overview, 2-8 payment threshold, 2-3
promotion codes, 3-8 payment types, 2-3
price lists, 2-2
Q shipping methods, 2-3
specialty sites, 3-1
quotes
visitor tracking, 2-3
published and shared, 3-8
T
R
terms and conditions, 3-11
reports, 2-10
overview, 1-7
U
responsibilities
in Oracle Applications, 3-13 user management, 2-3, 3-14
roles users, 1-8, 3-13
in Oracle E-Business Suite HTML forget password, 3-14
Applications, 3-13 opting in or out, 3-15
registration, 3-13
S storage of personal information, 3-15
user security, 2-3
sales rep assistance, 3-9
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