E-Commerce Native client capabilities

Hi Ankur Chauhan,

if you plan create your own implementation based on the OOTB AEM native eCommerce implementation please have in mind that is intended for mainly for reference and demonstration [0]. To use it in your project you will need your own implication or us a commercial eCommerce system.

Regarding your questions:

> 1. Order management
There is a basic order management user interface in AEM, which can be extended as well. 
But to fulfill all your requirements (routing orders, splitting order, update stock information, etc.) it must be customized heavily. Depending on your requirements (customizing, external distributor accusing the system) and the amount of expected orders it might be more appropriate to build a custom user interface for that with AEM or look for some separate already existing pice of software.

> 2. "Customer Account Management"
Within AEM all users and groups are stored within /home, that should not be a problem with customer profiles. Usually customer profiles are created on the publish instance while internal profiles for authors are on the author. For a clear separation of internal accounts and customer profiles I recommend storing them with a custom separate in the path like /home/users/customer/
100k user profiles should not be a problem for AEM.

Addition learnings and points from projects I was involved are:

• you should have a clear understanding of the caching strategy, especially for page containing static and dynamic parts (like hover cart, dynamic pricing and availability, personal recommendations, etc.) > try to cache as much as possible in the dispatcher
• use AJAX or other technics like SSI to cache the static parts of the page and include the dynamic elements
• the amount of daily product and catalog updates can have an impact on the performance because caches needs to be flushed
• depending on your use cases SEO might also be an imported aspect to consider 

Regards
Markus

[0] http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/cq/current/ecommerce/eCommerce-framework.html#Integration%20Framework%20and%20API 

Hi Ankur Chauhan,

Is mongo as persistance an option?  Or you are looking specifically at tar pm only.    How are you planning to addess PII requirements of commerce website?

Thanks,

Sham

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it's interesting, I also subscribe to the issue

Hi All,

Regarding PII, there are multiple things which can be used. for instance, government issued ID numbers, email, credit card, bank account and user ID. we could also combined some more info like gender, postal code etc.  

any recommendation or nice approach to take care of PII?.

Regards,

Jitendra

Hi

The link you gave is the 5.6.1 documentation, so just in case the customer is using AEM 6.0, the equivalent page would be  http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-0/administer/ecommerce/concepts.html#Architecture.

A good starting point of the 6.0 eCommerce documentation is http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-0/administer/ecommerce.html

I am looking for guidance for creating my own PIM (Product Information Management) in AEM. It would be great If I got an idea about how to store 10K product information with 100K customers details in AEM. I don't know, how mongo DB is going to help me. It would be great if I achieve it using tar pm. Looking guidance for PIM architecture & design. 

Regards

Ankur

Hi All,

I do have following concern regarding AEM native eCommerce :

• Is AEM 6.0 native eCommerce (out-of-box features) good for these kind of loads : 100K users, 10K Products, Profile Management and Order management etc.
• With above loads, Which persistence manager will be good TarPM(TarMK) or Mongo (MongoMK)?.
• If somebody uses out of the box AEM ecommerce functionality and looking for end to end solution, will this be good enough?. if not, what are the things, we should care about.?.

Thanks in advance and looking for some response, 

Regards.

Jitendra