The eCommerce – Magento is part of the LS Retail Unified Commerce solution for providing eCommerce interface in Magento with backend integration with LS Central. It uses LS Central ODataV4/SOAP/Rest based APIs to connect Magento with LS Central for two-way communications and allows web retailers to leverage crucial operations to LS Central, for example customer login/registration, basket calculation, discount calculations, order life cycle management, and so on.
The articles in this section list features that eCommerce – Magento provides as part of the integration between LS Central and Magento.
Replication
- eCommerce - Magento populates the Magento catalog (products and categories) using the replication endpoints on the LS Central webservices.
- eCommerce - Magento keeps track of the last preaction fetching only delta updates.
- Some of the data from LS Central is stored in Magento using custom-made, non-native entities used by the plugin.
Member Management
- LS Central members have immediate access to the Magento web store using the same LS Central credentials.
- eCommerce - Magento enables member registration through Magento.
- Loyalty information is shown in Magento on the account’s dashboard. For example: Points balance, club.
Cart Integration
- The cart totals are calculated directly on LS Central and then updated in Magento.
Order Management
- eCommerce - Magento registers an order and pushes it back to LS Central.
- eCommerce - Magento updates the Magento’s order state by pulling changes directly from LS Central.
- eCommerce - Magento can create two types of web orders:
- Sales Order: orders with payment & shipment information.
- Special Order: orders using Click & Collect shipment method.