Business to Consumer Pipelines

The business-to-consumer OPPs are used in Commerce sites designed for retail shopping by the public. These pipelines implement functions that are performed at different times during the customer’s shopping process, as described in the following list:

• υProduct (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.
• υPlan (Plan.pct). Runs OPP components that present the customer with an order total, including all promotional discounts, taxes, shipping and handling charges.
• υPurchase (Purchase.pct). Runs OPP components that validate the customer’s payment, perform the actual purchase transaction, write an order to database storage and, optionally, finalize a receipt by writing the contents of the OrderForm to the receipt database..