Building an E-Commerce Site Part 3: Catalogs and Shopping Carts - MyMarket Shopping Experience (
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This is the set of interactions the customer makes with MyMarket:
- Customer browses the product catalog
- Customer adds items to shopping cart
- Customer confirms the purchase
Payment Processing
Once the customer has confirmed the purchase, we have to process their payment:
- Transaction goes to payment processing / transaction clearing company
- Company verifies the amount and takes if from the customer's account
- Company pays MyMarket (after taking off their processing fee)
Order Fulfillment
- Warehouse gathers the products in the order for shipping
- Courier company ships the goods off to the customer, and the purchase is complete
That's overly simplified, but it should help to get a feel for the whole process.
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