Business-to-Consumer Pipelines
The business-to-consumer Order Processing pipelines (OPP) are used in Commerce Server sites designed for retail shopping by the public. These pipelines implement functions that are performed at different times during the shopping process.
This section contains:
Product Pipeline (Product.pct). Runs OPP components that compute price and discount information on individual products. This pipeline is often used to compute information that is displayed on the Product.asp page.
Plan Pipeline (Plan.pct). Runs OPP components that present the user with an order total, including all promotional discounts, taxes, shipping and handling charges.
Purchase Pipeline (Purchase.pct). Runs OPP components that validate the payment for a user, performs the actual purchase transaction, writes an order to database storage and, optionally, finalizes a receipt by writing the contents of the OrderForm object to the receipt database.