Integration

PakCom's Company Store platform can be integrated with a number of procurement applications with XML PunchOut.  

Understanding PunchOut

PunchOut is a protocol for interactive sessions managed across the internet.  PunchOut is a communication from one application to another, achieved through a dialog of real-time, synchronous cXML messages which support user interaction at a remote site.  It is the best way to manage user sessions distributed across web applications.

PakCom's platform supports Procurement PunchOut, which specifically supports interactions between a procurement application and your Company Store. Procurement PunchOut describes the traditional PunchOut scenarios that use the regular PunchOut Setup Request and PunchOut Setup Response. The PunchOut session is initiated with a "PunchOutSetupRequest" and terminates with a posting of a "PunchOutOrderMessage," which contains the initiating transaction's cookie and a shopping cart or "quote." The final purchase order is delivered from the procurement application to the Company Store in an OrderRequest cXML document.

Supported Platforms