Order Use Cases

Use cases related to Orders

1. As a Customer I need to be able to place an order containing products from multiple platforms, whilst only interacting (e.g. placing a payment) with the platform I am buying from so that I can have a seamless customer experience.

2. As a Trader I need any customer order data to be passed to other platforms in an anonymized, GDPR-Compliant, manner so that I can ensure my business remains legal.

3. As a Trader I need to reserve stock against the Producers inventory (if available) as soon as my Customer completes checkout, so that I can ensure I have sufficient stock to fulfill my orders.

4. As a Producer supplying a Trader (Hub) I need all Customer sales orders for my Products on this Trader to be consolidated into a single order for a sales session so that I can process orders simply.

5. As a Trader I need an option for Producer orders to be consolidated into a single order per sales session per Producer so that I can send a single aggregate order to my supplier.

6. As a Trader I need an option for Producer orders to be aggregated by weight to the total weight for a sales session per Product so that I can order a single bulk quantity from my supplier.

7. As a Trader I need orders to complete if no inventory information is available so that orders can still be processed by platforms that have not yet implemented inventory management.

8. As a Producer I need any cancelled Customer orders to be reflected promptly (Order Lines removed/ Quantities reduced as appropriate) within the Traders Order so that stock can be available for other orders. An Order update (PUT) can be applied to ensure any amendments to Order Lines are reflected.

9. As a trader I need to flexibly apply sales-based discounts to orders, so that I can give customers the best deal possible. These are discounts not based on a customer category so the Cust Cat/Offer/Price link isn't easy to traverse (e.g. a bulk discount of 5% if total order value exceeds 100 EUR) The Order class contains discount property (as a float), that can contain a total value of all discounts for an Order. Individual items can similarly be discounted using the OrderLine discount property (also a float value).