Introduction
A Public Store allows anonymous user to browse and search your online product catalog, see public prices, add products to a shopping cart, and checkout / place orders.
Overview
A Public Store is just a traditional “Retail Ecommerce Site” or “Shopping Cart Site”. It describes a CIMcloud customer site that:
- Is public-facing, allowing anonymous users to
- Access your products / product catalog, including default/public pricing
- Add products to a shopping cart
- Check out and place an order
- May serve as your corporate website
- Is largely focused on the presentation of the product catalog & shopping experience
- It typically includes a keyword search, featured products, product categories, etc
- It can show inventory availability (inventory bundle is required)
- Has a shopping cart and checkout process that
- Allows returning customers to login and checkout (with their saved data)
- Allows new customers to create accounts and checkout
- May allow new customers to check out as a “guest” (meaning they don’t set up a username and password)
- May contain public-facing content pages (like About Us, Locations, Policies, etc)
- May contain a contact us form (that collects, logs, and emails the information submitted)
- Has a link for for existing customers to login, where they will see & manage
- Their account information (billing, shipping, and login info)
- Their orders and shipments
- [If B2B] Their invoices, payments, and credits
Video Overview
This is a demo-style video walkthrough of a public-facing web store / ecommerce site built on the CIMcloud platform.