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Commerce runtime (CRT) services

Commerce runtime (CRT) is a collection of portable .NET libraries that contain the core business logic for the commerce channel and pricing functionality. To add or modify any business logic, you should customize CRT. Store Commerce calls CRT to request that it performs business logic. CRT processes the request and then sends the response back to point of sale. POS is like a thin client, all the business logic should be done in CRT.

A CRT service is a group of requests/responses. Anytime that you do something in POS, POS sends a request to Commerce Scale Unit, and Commerce Scale Unit calls CRT. CRT processes the request and sends back the response.

This article shows some important requests/responses that you can customize for your business scenario.

There are three main layers in CRT:

  • Services
  • Workflow
  • Data Access

All CRT customization for business logic can be done in Services, Workflow or Data Access layers, other core layers that are required for CRT to work are runtime, authentication, and data access managers and you should avoid any customization on these layers.

Note

Detailed information about all CRT classes can be found in the Retail SDK, which is found at RetailSDK\Documents\CommerceRuntimeMessages.chm.

Overall flow

The overall flow looks like this:

CRT service request < > Zero or more workflow requests < > Zero or more data access requests

For example, multiple workflow and data access requests are called to perform the Create sales order service request.

CRT services

Each CRT service contains one or more requests/responses. For example, the Customer service in CRT contains all the customer-related requests/responses. Each request/response is run in a different flow.

Default CRT services

Many services in CRT support the functionality of the channel and store operations. You can add your own services or extend the existing services. The following table describes some of the services that you might customize for various business services.

For more information about each service, see the CRT request/response document in the Retail software development kit (SDK), at …\RetailSDK\Code\Documents\CommerceRuntimeMessages.chm.

Service Description
AddressService This service verifies addresses and gets location information, such as cities, counties, or states.
BarcodeService This service processes the barcode that was scanned, based on the mask and barcode types, and calculates the quantity and price from the barcode.
CartService This service gets the cart from the transaction and sales transaction service from the transaction tables.
ChargeService This service implements logic that calculates automatic charges, price charges, and shipping charges for transactions.
CouponService This service validates and updates coupon-related requests.
CurrencyService This service converts currencies, based on exchange rates.
CustomerService This service contains customer related operations such as Save customer, purchase history, get customer and customer balance.
EmployeeService This service gets employee-related information and employees by store.
FormattingService This service implements logic for the format of numbers, currencies, and dates.
GiftCardService This service provides information about internal activities that are related to gift cards, such as issuing the gift card, getting the balance, and adding value.
LoyaltyService This service implements a program that rewards repeat customers.
NotificationService This service maintains the POS notification service.
PaymentService This service lets you connect your online store to a payment service to provide credit card authorization and use preconfigured payment processing. You can also extend the payment service to add additional third-party payment processors.
ProductService This service gets product-related and variant-related information.
ProductsService This service gets information that is related to products and variants.
PricingService This service gets the price of an item in real time. The price is adjusted, based on the base price and any applicable discounts. Discounts can be customized for each retailer.
ProductAvailabilityService This service calculates the quantities of products that are available to sell.
ReasonCodeService This service calculates and gets the required reason code for POS operations or any workflow.
ReceiptService This service gets and formats the receipt details.
RoundingService This service rounds the tender amount, based on the tender type and store.
SalesOrderService This service creates a sales order, based on a customer shopping cart.
SearchProductsService This service searches products, based on the input text.
ShippingService This service calculates shipping costs and determines shipping options for the current order.
StockCountService This service creates, commits, and synchronizes stock journals.
StoreOperationService This service maintains store-related operation services, such as Save and Drop, Tender declaration, and Search journal.
TaxService This service calculates the sales tax for the current order. You can use sales tax information provided, or from a third-party sales tax service.
TotalingService This service calculates the totals on the sales transactions and sales lines.

For extension scenarios, you can add CRT triggers, create new services, and override any of the requests in the service class. For information about how to extend and understand CRT extension patterns, see Commerce runtime (CRT) extensibility.

Note

CRT extension code should not refer to or use any of the CRT business logic classes, methods, or handlers (such as classes from Runtime.Workflow, Runtime.Services, or Runtime.DataServices). These classes are not backward compatible, which could break extensions during an upgrade. Extensions should only use request, response, and entity classes from Runtime.*.Messages, Runtime.Framework, Runtime.Data, and Runtime.Entities.

AddressService

The Address service supports the following requests/responses for various extension scenarios.

Request Purpose
GetCountryRegionsServiceRequest This request gets the list of countries and regions that are supported.
GetStateProvincesServiceRequest This request gets the list of states or provinces that are supported for the country or region.
GetCitiesServiceRequest This request gets the list of cities that are supported for the state or region.
GetDistrictServiceRequest This request gets the list of districts that are supported.
GetZipCodesServiceRequest This request gets the list of ZIP Codes that are supported.
GetFromZipPostalCodeServiceRequest This request gets the list of postal codes supported.
GetAddressFormattingServiceRequest This request gets the address format for the specified country or region.

BarcodeService

Request Purpose
ProcessMaskSegmentsServiceRequest This request processes the barcode, based on the barcode mask configuration.
GetBarcodeTypeServiceRequest This request gets the types of barcodes that are supported.
CalculateQuantityFromPriceServiceRequest This request calculates the price and quantity, based on the barcode that is scanned or entered.

CartService

It's possible to generate extensions that can cause parallel execution in an additional thread, as shown in the following example:

cartService.Execute(createRequest(calculateSalesTransactionServiceRequest, CalculationModes.Totals));

The example above could generate high CPU usage in a system due to concurrent access to both the insert and FindEntry functions of the dictionary due to parallel execution.

Request Purpose
GetSalesTransactionsServiceRequest This request gets the sales transaction from Headquarters.
GetCartServiceRequest This request gets the cart from the sales transaction table by using the cart ID.
CalculateSalesTransactionServiceRequest This request calculates the various sales transaction totals, based on the specified calculation mode.
CalculateEstimatedShippingAuthorizationAmountServiceRequest This request calculates the estimated shipping authorization amount on the transaction.
ConvertSalesTransactionToCartServiceRequest This request converts the sales transaction to a cart transaction, based on transaction ID that is passed.

CouponService

Request Purpose
UpdateCouponCodesOnCartServiceRequest This request updates the coupon codes status in Headquarters, based on the coupons that are used in the cart.
ValidateCouponCodesServiceRequest This request validates the coupon code that is entered in the transactions.
UpdateCouponUsageServiceRequest This request updates coupon usage for the transaction.

CustomerService

Request Purpose
SaveCustomerServiceRequest This request is called when you save a customer from the POS.
GetCustomersServiceRequest This request gets the selected customer details.
CustomersSearchServiceRequest This request is run when you search for a customer from the POS.
GetCustomerGroupsServiceRequest This request gets the customer group details.
InitiateLinkToExistingCustomerServiceRequest This request is an internal request for backward compatibility.
FinalizeLinkToExistingCustomerServiceRequest This request is an internal request for backward compatibility.
UnlinkFromExistingCustomerServiceRequest This request is an internal request for backward compatibility.
GetCustomerBalanceServiceRequest This request gets the balance of the customer's account.
GetOrderHistoryServiceRequest This request gets the customer's order history.
GetPurchaseHistoryServiceRequest This request gets the history of the customer's recent purchases.
CustomerSearchByFieldsServiceRequest This request is run when you search customer by using fields such as name, phone number etc. (hint search).
GetCustomerSearchFieldsServiceRequest This request gets the list of customer search fields (hint fields).

PricingService

Request Purpose
CalculatePricesServiceRequest This request calculates the price for each item that is added to the cart and on the search screen.
CalculateDiscountsServiceRequest This request calculates the discount for each item that is added to the cart.
GetIndependentPriceDiscountServiceRequest This request calculates the price for each item on the price check screen and in other non-transaction-related flows.
ValidateDiscountsServiceRequest This request validates the discount that is entered, based on the employee.
GetAllPeriodicDiscountsServiceRequest This request gets all the periodic discounts that are configured.
GetDiscountCodesServiceRequest This request gets all the discount codes that are configured.

ProductService

Request Purpose
ProductSearchServiceRequest This request gets the product list, based on the search text from the POS. (This is an old request. For customization, use the new SearchProductsServiceRequest request instead.)
GetProductServiceRequest This request gets the product, based on the product ID.
GetProductRefinersRequest This request retrieves the product refiner values.

ProductsService

Request Purpose
GetProductsServiceRequest This request gets the products, based on the products IDs that are provided.
GetVariantProductsServiceRequest This request gets specific variations of master type products.

ReasonCodeService

Request Purpose
GetReasonCodesServiceRequest This request gets the required reason code for the workflow or POS operation.
CalculateRequiredReasonCodesServiceRequest This request calculates the required reason code for the workflow or POS operation.
CalculateCartRequiredReasonCodesServiceRequest This request calculates the required reason code for the cart workflow.
CalculateDropAndDeclareTransactionRequiredReasonCodesServiceRequest This request calculates the required reason code for the drop and tender declaration transaction.
CalculateNonSalesTransactionRequiredReasonCodesServiceRequest This request calculates the required reason code for the non-sales transaction, such as tender declaration.
GetReturnOrderReasonCodesServiceRequest This request gets the required reason code for the return transaction.
ValidateReasonCodeLineForUpdateServiceRequest This request validates the reason code lines that are added during the save cart request.

ReceiptService

Request Purpose
GetReceiptServiceRequest This request gets the receipt type and generates the receipt data, based on the receipt type.
GetCustomReceiptFieldServiceRequest Override this request, and add custom logic for your custom fields that are added in the receipt.
GetEmailReceiptServiceRequest This request gets the formatted receipts that will be used for print and email scenarios.
PopulateTaxSummaryIndiaServiceRequest This request populates the tax summary for India transaction.

SearchProductsService

Request Purpose
SearchProductsServiceRequest This request is run when you search for a product from the POS.

TaxService

Request Purpose
CalculateTaxServiceRequest This request calculates taxes on the transaction.
AssignTaxCodesServiceRequest This request assigns tax codes on the transaction's taxable items before the tax calculation. The default tax calculation handler of the CalculateTaxServiceRequest request uses this message.
PopulateTaxRatesRequest This request populates tax rates for the recalled transaction. No tax percentage information is persisted for tax lines. This message handler restores the information.

Workflow layer

On top of the Services layer is the Workflow layer. A workflow is a collection of services and business logic that together define business processes. For example, when a customer adds an item to the cart, you can use a workflow to get the price, do validation, check the inventory quantity, calculate shipping, calculate tax, and calculate discounts. You can customize the existing workflows, or you can create new workflows. You can even use a workflow to connect to a third-party system as part of your business processes.

Just like services, workflows use the request/response pattern. The request object inherited from the base CRT Request class. The response object inherited from the base CRT Response class. A workflow also has a request handler class that extends the WorkflowRequestHandler<TRequest, TResponse> class. To create a workflow, you create a request class and a response class, and you then create a request handler class that contains the business logic for the workflow.

For example, when you create a cash-and-carry transaction or a customer order, many different steps or workflows are completed before the order is created. One of the workflow steps in the order process is the Save cart request. The Save cart request workflow is responsible for saving any changes that are made to the cart from the POS. For example, when you add an item to the cart, change the quantity, and so on, anything that you do in the POS will cause a call to the SaveCart to save the changes to the POS and database.

Default workflows and handlers

The following table lists the default workflow requests and response. CRT services call the workflows request and response based on the operation you perform in POS. You can customize any of these workflows request and response according to your business scenario.

Request Handler Purpose
AddOrderInvoiceToCartRequest AddOrderInvoiceToCartRequestHandler This request adds the invoice to the cart as a cart line.
AddOrRemoveDiscountCodesRequest AddOrRemoveDiscountCodesRequestHandler This request adds discount codes to the cart or removes them from the cart.
CancelOrderRequest CancelOrderRequestHandler This request is triggered when you cancel an order from the POS.
CopyCartRequest CopyCartRequestHandler This request creates an identical shopping cart that has the specified cart type.
GetAddressRequest GetAddressRequestHandler This request gets the address from the list.
GetCardPaymentAcceptPointRequest GetCardPaymentAcceptPointRequestHandler This request shows the accepting page for card payment.
GetCartRequest GetCartRequestHandler This request gets the shopping cart, based on the cart search criteria.
GetDiscountCodesRequest GetDiscountCodesRequestHandler This request gets the discount codes.
GetOrdersRequest GetOrdersRequestHandler This request gets sales orders.
GetPromotionsRequest GetPromotionsRequestHandler This request gets the shopping cart together with promotion lines for the cart and the cart items.
GetScanResultRequest GetScanResultRequestHandler This request gets the entity details, based on the details that are scanned or typed.
GetSupportedCardTypesRequest GetSupportedCardTypesRequestHandler This request retrieves the cart types that are supported for the specified currency.
IssueOrAddToGiftCardRequest IssueOrAddToGiftCardRequestHandler This request issues a gift card or adds to a gift card's balance.
PickAndPackOrderRequest PickAndPackOrderRequestHandler This request represents a request for picking list creation and packing slip creation for a customer order.
PickupAtStoreRequest PickupAtStoreRequestHandler This request represents a request for pick-up at the store.
RecalculateOrderRequest RecalculateOrderRequestHandler This request represents a request for the recalculate order workflow.
RecallCustomerOrderRequest RecallCustomerOrderRequestHandler This request gets sales orders and converts them into a cart.
RecallSalesInvoiceRequest RecallSalesInvoiceRequestHandler This request gets invoices.
ResumeCartRequest ResumeCartRequestHandler This request represents a request to resume a cart that was suspended.
SaveCartLinesRequest SaveCartLinesRequestHandler This request represents a request for create, update, delete, or void operations on the cart line.
SaveCartRequest SaveCartRequestHandler This request is triggered when you make any changes in that POS that affect the cart.
SaveCustomerOrderRequest SaveCustomerOrderRequestHandler This request initiates a request to save the customer order, based on the specified cart identifier and payment card information.
SaveReasonCodeLineRequest SaveReasonCodeLineRequestHandler This request adds or updates a reason code on the cart line.
SaveTenderLineRequest SaveTenderLineRequestHandler This request adds, removes, or updates a tender line for the given shopping cart.
SaveVoidTransactionRequest SaveVoidTransactionRequestHandler This request voids a transaction.
SubmitSalesTransactionRequest SubmitOrderRequestHandler This request initiates a request to submit the sales transaction, based on the specified cart identifier.
SuspendCartRequest SuspendCartRequestHandler This request represents a request to suspend the cart.
TransferCartRequest TransferCartRequestHandler This request transfers the specified shopping cart.
UpdateCommissionSalesGroupRequest UpdateCommissionSalesGroupHandler This request encapsulates a request for updating the sales representative on the cart or the cart line.
UploadOrderRequest UploadOrderRequestHandler This request uploads the sales order.
ValidateCartForCheckoutRequest ValidateCartForCheckoutRequestHandler This request validates the cart for checkout.