Aurora starter store

Store features

• Site level features: Using site-level features, you can customize the look of your storefront. Site level features are visible from multiple pages in your store.
• Category level features: Category-level features help customers to browse categories, search the catalog, and filter product listings to find the right product.
• Product level features: Product-level features showcase details about a specific product in your store.
• Search features: HCL Commerce comes with a powerful and fully integrated search function. The search functions in HCL Commerce provide an enriched customer experience, with features such as automatic search term suggestions and spelling correction.
• B2B-optimized features: Aurora offers B2B-optimized features to enhance and simplify catalog browsing, order placement, and administration tasks for B2B customers.
• Accessibility features: The Aurora starter store follows the IBM accessibility guidelines to implement accessibility features. Accessibility features help users who have a physical disability, such as a visual impairment, hearing impairment, or limited mobility, successfully use the store.

Technology

• Responsive web design (RWD) patterns in catalog browsing page layouts and widgets.
• Customizable REST services to facilitate the invocation of classic controller commands and the activation of data beans.
• Ability to define store functions as self-contained widgets.
• Ability to combine Ajax and jQuery widgets to build a store page layout.
• Easier styling and customization of the site.
• Use of HCL Commerce services for all marketing, member, and order component interactions.
• Ability to retrieve product attributes with catalog services.

Aurora starter store feature set

• Catalogs
• Marketing
• Promotions
• Registration
• Orders
• Checkout
• Store locator
• Organization and buyer administration
• Technology
• Page design

Catalogs

Marketing

Promotions

Registration

Orders

Checkout

Store locator

Organization and buyer administration

Technology

Page design

Aurora sales catalogs

• If you publish Aurora as a B2C store, the default catalog is set to a sales catalog called Aurora B2B sample data. This sales catalog has a housewares theme, with departments that include Apparel, Electronics, Grocery, Health, Home and Furnishing, and Newsletters and Magazines.
• If you publish Aurora as a B2B store, the default catalog is set to a sales catalog called Aurora B2B sample data. This sales catalog has a hardware theme, with departments that include Fasteners and Lighting.

The default catalog setting is controlled in the Catalogs tool in Management Center. For more information, see Sales catalogs and Default catalog.

Mobile store pages

Limitations

• The following features are not demonstrated in the Aurora starter store:
  • Gift registry (Gift Center)
  • Specific social commerce features including public-facing user profiles, blogs, photo galleries, and social bookmarks.
• Bidirectional language support limitations:
  • There are known limitations with the Internet Explorer 7 browser when you view the Aurora store in languages that are written from right to left. . Limitations include misalignment or exclusion of certain page elements throughout the store.
• The Aurora starter store contains default behaviors that might affect storefront performance. Changing the default behaviors might improve your storefront performance. For more information about limitations, see ../refs/rsmaurora_tsperformance.html.
• The video/mp4 MIME type must be enabled in your WebSphere Application Server configuration. This enablement resolves potential video playback issues for Firefox and Internet Explorer 9+. For more information, see MIME type collection.
• The mini shopping cart displays a maximum of 50 items by default. If a customer reaches 50 items and adds more items to the shopping cart, the mini shopping cart does not display the new additions. You must increase the default value in the mini cart JSP file fragment when you are expecting typical shopping cart sizes to exceed 50 items.