The LS eCommerce – Magento is part of the LS Retail Unified Commerce solution for providing eCommerce interface in Magento with backend integration with LS Central. It uses LS Commerce Service SOAP based APIs to connect Magento with LS Central for two-way communications and allows Web retailers to leverage crucial operations to LS Central, for example customer login/registration, basket calculation, discount calculations, order life cycle management and so on.
The topics in this section list features that LS eCommerce – Magento provides as part of the integration between LS Central and Magento.
Replication
- LS eCommerce - Magento populates the Magento catalog (products and categories) using the replication endpoints on the LS Commerce Service.
- LS eCommerce - Magento keeps track of the last preaction fetching only delta updates.
- Some of the data from LS Commerce Service is stored in Magento using custom-made, non-native entities used by the plugin.
Member Management
- LS Central members have immediate access to the Magento web store using the same LS Central credentials.
- LS eCommerce - Magento enables member registration through Magento.
- Loyalty information will be shown in Magento on the account’s dashboard, for example points balance, club.
Cart Integration
- The Magento cart is mirrored in LS Commerce as a OneList.
- The cart totals are calculated directly on LS Central and then updated in Magento.
- LS Commerce OneLists are shared with all LS Commerce clients, for example the loyalty app.
Order Management
- LS eCommerce - Magento will register an order and push it back to LS Central.
- LS eCommerce - Magento updates the Magento’s order state by pulling changes directly from LS Central.
- LS eCommerce - Magento can create two types of web orders:
- Sales Order: orders with payment & shipment information.
- Special Order: orders using Click & Collect shipment method.