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Websphere Commerce Member Subsystem Organization Structure B2C Direct Business Model B2C Direct Business model consist of root organization, default organization and seller organization. Root organization and Default organization are created during instance creation. Seller organization and B2C organization are created during store publish process. B2C Organization Structure Root organization All organizations in the business become child of the root organization. Default organization All of the online users are owned by the default organization. The default organization is a child of the Root Organization. Seller organization A seller organization is created to own all the stores (Retailer) B2C organization A B2C organization owns a single store (Retailer). B2B Direct Model B2B Direct Business model consist of root organization, default organization, seller organization and buyer organization. Root organization and Default organization are created during instance

Using Contracts for eCommerce in Websphere Commerce As per the request from one of the comments on the blog, this is a high level view on contracts using Websphere commerce and by no means a complete coverage of contracts as it's such a vast topic. Contracts: This is one of the most interesting concepts when dealing with both B2B and B2C eCommerce systems. Every store published out of the box is associated with a default contract. Lot of clients use contracts on B2C site, if the requirements for a B2C site include using contracts or employment purchase programs using contracts. It is a best practice to use EliteStoreFront or if you are still using V 6.0 (Advance B2B). Why are contracts required? These are good reasons. 1. If you want to use the same offer price lists as your regular customers but provide a percentage or fixed amount off of the same prices to a subset of customers such as Employees or Students. 2. If you want include or exclude a set of categories or product

Open : Stores\WebContent\GenericSystemError.jsp Search for key : _ERR_INVALID_COOKIE try {       ErrorDataBean errorBean = new ErrorDataBean ();       com.ibm.commerce.beans.DataBeanManager.activate (errorBean, request);       if (errorBean.getMessageKey().equals("_ERR_INVALID_COOKIE"))       {                   Cookie cookies [] = request.getCookies ();                   Cookie myCookie = null;                   if (cookies != null){                   System.out.println ("Cookies Issue");                         for (int i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++) {                               if (cookies [i].getName().equals ("WC_USERACTIVITY")) {                                     myCookie = cookies[i];                                     break;                               }                         }                   }                   if (myCookie != null)                   {                   System.out.println ("Cookies Issu

How to create catalog filters and also mapping them with Contracts. ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/iea/content/com.ibm.iea.wcs/wcs/7.0.0.2/BusinessUI/CatalogFilterOverview.pdf