
Looking at the changing trend in business and the needs of the suppliers and customers, there is sudden boom in electronic commerce. The main purpose is to to reduce expenditure, increase profit, and improve performance and reliability. This is achieved by estore. It’s an Internet Application Integration (IAI). It’s used to link front office web applications to back office business environments. It has storefronts, payment processors and business environment integrated. It has a built in support to manage electronic payments.
Estore is beneficial as the web orders are processed and submitted quickly and easily. The seamless integration ensures that all is in real time environment and there is no redundancy of data.
The ESTORE has two main object libraries: Transaction server objects and Estore business Objects. Transaction server objects are used by clients to process electronic payments. Estore business objects are used to submit orders to back office. Estore business objects also provide the inventory, sales order and customer information.
For electronic payments the ESTORE offers multiple payment origination points. So the electronic payments can be done from any storefront, B2B, call center, POS, ERP or CRM solution. For order processing ESTORE uses API. AT present the order processing includes business objects for Customer creation and modification, Inventory item creation and modification, Sales order creation, Payment details, cash receipt details, back office queries, customers request data, inventory request data, and sales request data.
