Stores in Commerce+

Commerce+ supports different types of stores. The assets of these stores can be edited using the Commerce Lab.

Customer-facing store

An online site where users may obtain information regarding products, and conduct business transactions. Commerce+ uses the generic term 'store' to describe the online space where all of these business transactions take place. Commerce+ supports the following customer-facing stores:

• Extended site store, supplier store, or reseller store

  A store that is created by the site operator for the owner of the store.

  • Site Operator is any person who owns, operates or manages the e-commerce store.
  • Store Owner is any person who owns the store and allows sellers to onboard and sell products on the e-commerce platform. The store owner may have the option of administering the store.
  • A supplier is a business or individual who provides goods or services to another company or individual. In contrast, a reseller is a business that sells products to consumers.

  See Extended sites in Commerce+ for more information.

• Asset store

  A store that contains a collection of sharable resources (business artifacts, business processes, and storefront assets) that can be leveraged in other types of stores. For example, a catalog asset store is a collection of catalog artifacts that creates a virtual catalog. A storefront asset store is a collection of JSP files, commands, business processes (for example order processing), business policies and access control policies that create a virtual storefront. Asset stores do not perform or record business transactions. They are simply holders of assets that can be used by other stores.