The E-commerce solution provides a number of specialized web parts that can be integrated into your on-line store. Among them you can find:

 

•Shopping cart - allows you to add products to a virtual shopping cart (during the checkout-process) and displays the shopping cart content.

•Shopping cart preview - displays the links to the shopping cart, to My account and to My wishlist, and the total value of the shopping cart content.

•My account - displays the details of the current user, such as personal settings, addresses, orders and invoices, and allows the user to change the password.

•Wishlist - displays the wishlist of the currently logged-on user.

•Similar products by sale - displays products that were purchased together with the current product by previous customers.

•Random products - displays N random products that correspond to the criteria specified in the content filter.

•Product datalist - displays products on the basis of their e-commerce product (SKU) properties, instead of displaying the standard CMS documents.

•Top N newest products - displays N newest products.

•Top N products by sales - displays N best-selling products.

 

The web parts can be used on both portal page templates and ASPX templates. However, with ASPX page templates the web parts are used as independent user controls, which means you need to add and configure them in Visual Studio just like standard user controls. You thus lose the friendly browser‑based interface.

 

Further in this section, you will learn how to manage web parts and how to set properties common to web parts used in your on-line store.