I have been working on a generic shopping cart over the last
few
months and am interested in doing a level 2 integration with
GC.
I am however unclear on what appears to be a fundamental
issue:
My application maintains its own orders DB, which is
obviously bridged
to customers etc.
>From what I've read of the GC API, it would appear that
level 2
integration requires me to retire all of my local orders
infrastructure, and instead rely entirely on the GC orders
infrastructure.
For example, when I send a cart to GC, I don't send a local
order
reference (or customer id) but instead wait for a Order
Notification
from GC which will contain a GC generated order and
customer
reference, which I must then process internally.
Does this mean that when a customer comes back to my site,
and wants
to view their Order History, that I have to send them off to
a Google
site where they have to log in again? Or is there a way in
which I can
do server-to-server queries (or even better, AJAX queries)
to GC so
that I present the user with all the data they need within
my own
site?
Basically, what I am asking is: is GC a good intergration
solution for
shopping sites that already have their own customer DBs and
order
processing routines, or is it more geared towards smaller
less complex
vendors who just want to outsource all of the cart
functionality?
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