Integrate Your E-commerce Solutions

In this extreme scenario, no effort is needed to link Web customers to the catalog’s customer database either before, during or after an order is placed. An independent Web site usually still will depend on the catalog infrastructure for order fulfillment, but credit card processing may be handled independently. Orders will be imported into the order-processing system periodically (e.g., every hour, twice a day, overnight), using the same utilities employed to import orders from a third-party call center.