Business accounts represent the relationship between a store and the store's customer organizations and are the starting point for managing business relationships. Using business accounts, you can track contracts and orders for customer organizations and configure how buyers from customer organizations shop in a store.
Topics closely related to business accounts are as follows:
A business account contains the following information about a customer organization:
- The name of the customer organization and a contact person within that organization.
- The department and name of the account representative from the store assigned to the customer organization.
- Information about purchase orders a customer organization has with a store.
- How invoices are delivered to the customer organization.
- If the customer organization has a credit line.
- Any display customization information for the business customer. Store pages can be customized for a business account by specifying a piece of HTML code that can be used by a store's JavaServer Pages files.
- Any general remarks about the business account.
Also, business accounts control customer entitlement by controlling the ability of buyers from customer organizations to access a store's master catalog and see standard pricing for products contained in the master catalog. If a customer organization is not entitled to purchase products in the store's master catalog at standard prices, they are limited to products and prices covered by contracts the customer organization has with a store.
Before creating a business account for a customer organization, the customer organization must already exist in WebSphere Commerce. Also, at least one person associated with the customer organization should be a registered customer, since a contact at the customer organization is required when creating a business account.
Business accounts are managed using the WebSphere Commerce Accelerator.