- Administering catalogs
You can administer catalog features such as the attribute dictionary and categories.
- Administering promotions
You can administer promotion features such as creating or deleting promotion folders and configuring the promotions engine.
- Administering workspaces
You can enable and manage workspace assets and determine policies such as locking rules and commit and publishing options.
- Administering price rules and price lists
A Site Administrator must perform a series of tasks to enable and configure price rules and price lists in Management Center.
- Administering catalog filters
As Site Administrator, you might be required to assist business users with certain catalog filter tasks that relate to the Catalog Filter and Pricing tool in Management Center.
- Administering store preview
You can administer store preview functions such as enabling and disabling commands and views, and adding a customized business context.
- Administering order management
As a Site Administrator, you can manage various features of the order management subsystem.
- Request For Quote (RFQ) trading
As a Site Administrator, you can enable and disable the RFQ trading mechanism, and enable RFQ notification messaging.
- Publishing business accounts and contracts
Some of the store database assets, (business accounts, and contracts) cannot be loaded by the loading utilities. You can publish these database assets by using the Administration Console or from the command line, as part of the Publish process, or you can publish business accounts and contracts using their corresponding commands.
- Configuring caching to capture user traffic data
Edit the WebSphere Commerce configuration file to set the level of caching performed on user traffic data. The default number of URLs in the cache is 20. If this number is too low for your site, for example, if your site is very busy and you are concerned about performance impacts, you can increase the cache size. User traffic data is used in some operational reports.
- Catalog and marketing attachments
As a Site Administrator, you can manage the catalog and marketing attachments, such as for adding attachment usages, changing managed file updater parameters, or deleting attachments.
- Administering marketing
To support marketing features in Management Center, there are a number of administration tasks that you might need to perform.
- Configuring negotiated pricing
To use negotiated pricing, you must have a nominal cost price list that is defined for your store.
- Inventory sharing in extended sites stores (non-ATP)
The extended sites business model provides scalability and manageability improvements for WebSphere Commerce sites where there are multiple stores which can share assets including non-ATP inventory. The sharing of non-ATP inventory reduces the complexity of managing inventory assets for all the stores in the site. All stores in extended sites can share inventory from a single asset store with distributed fulfillment centers.
- Tax sharing in extended sites stores
In extended sites store model, tax assets can be shared between the extended site asset store and the extended site store. You can manage the tax assets in an extended site store in WebSphere Commerce Accelerator.