OCI Punchout

OCI punchout is an Open Catalog Interface-based mechanism that integrates a customer's purchasing system with a merchant's web shop. Buyers leave ("punch out") the purchasing system and access the merchant's web shop within one session. Buyers browse the web shop and add items to the shopping carts while both systems maintain their connections. When buyers check out from the merchant’s web shop, no orders are sent to the merchant. Instead, the shopping carts with the selected items are brought back to the purchasing system, which then proceeds through the established workflow steps.

Enabling OCI Punchout

To use the OCI punchout functionality, there must be at least one user with the role OCI Punchout User in the customer organization. This user is usually not related to an existing storefront user. To create a punchout user:

1. As an Administrator, open My Account | Punchout.
2. Specify a login name and a password for the punchout user.
3. Enter your password to confirm the operation, and click Create OCI User.

Getting OCI Punchout URL

To configure the purchasing system, you need the URL to be used to access the web shop. To find this URL:

1. Open My Account | Punchout.

   With at least one punchout user created, this page displays the corresponding URL.

2. Copy the URL, replacing the placeholders Your_Login, Your_Password, Your_Hook_URL with the actual punchout user's credentials and hook URL.