Overview

The e-commerce module provides several web parts that allow you to integrate it into your web site:

 

Shopping cart - displays the shopping cart content and ensures the check-out process
Shopping cart preview - displays the link to the shopping cart and the total value of the shopping cart content
My account - displays the details of the current user, such as personal settings, addresses, orders, invoices and allows user to change the password
Wishlist - displays the wishlist of the currently logged-on user

 

These web parts can be used also as independent user controls placed on the ASPX pages.

 

How to organize the pages

 

A typical content tree structure of an e-commerce-enabled web site looks like this:

 

- Home (page)

- Products (page)

 - Category 1 (page; contains Repeater or DataList web parts displaying products with links to shopping cart)

    - Product 1 (product specification document; it's marked as a product and has associated price and other product properties)

    - Product 2 (product specification document; it's marked as a product and has associated price and other product properties)

 - Category 2 (page; contains Repeater or DataList web parts displaying products with links to shopping cart)

    - Product 3 (product specification document; it's marked as a product and has associated price and other product properties)

    - Product 3 (product specification document; it's marked as a product and has associated price and other product properties)

- News (page)

- Shopping Cart (page; it contains the Shopping cart web part and can be configured to be hidden in the navigation and site map)

- My Account (page; it contains the My account web part and can be configured to be hidden in the navigation and site map)