Accounts - Infosys Equinox Developer Portal

This page gives an overview of the Accounts microservice, including core features, for the Infosys Equinox platform.

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Overview

Infosys Equinox’s Business to Business (“B2B“) capabilities enable a business to serve business customers on its commerce platform. The Infosys Equinox Accounts microservice (“Accounts“) powers this core B2B capability. Accounts automate B2B processes across enterprises, standards, and visibility for those processes.

Accounts help to integrate the B2B processes of Infosys Equinox across sellers and buyers. Account has functionality that allows the business’ customers to manage their organizational commerce needs on the Commerce platform as well as offer users the capability to easily manage each individual business account. It assists the buyer organization with managing cost centers with budgets on restricted time duration. The seller organization manages the contract for the buyer account. The contract enables the sales catalog, price list, and payment method. If the payment method supports the use of a purchase order, then the contract should enrich the payment term.

Accounts has the following features:

Easy Account On-Boarding: Infosys Equinox B2B now offers the self on-boarding option to your business customers and robust approval functionality so that your team has full control of your accounts. Additionally, your team can onboard new business customers using Infosys Equinox Admin console.
Account Categorization by Account Type: Segment your business customers for easy management. These segments can be custom types to suit your business needs for instance by industry or size of business like small, midsize, or large.
Account Contract Management: Manage contracts for each account and use the Accounts microservice to track credit limit, payment methods allowed like credit cards, purchase orders (POs), and company bill-to.
Account-Based Catalog and Pricing: Each of your customers can now get their own custom catalog and pricing on the Infosys Equinox B2B commerce platform.
Account Management by Account Representatives: Accounts lets your account managers and representatives manage individual accounts from within the Infosys Equinox B2B commerce platform.
Buyer Cost Center and Team Management: Infosys Equinox B2B commerce platform lets your business customers manage their cost centers and teams, set budgets, manage order approval, etc. on the platform.

Core Features

The key features in Accounts microservices are listed below:

Easy self on-boarding of account via storefront
Segment business customers by industry or size of business
Manage individual contracts for each account to track the products, prices, categories & payment methods that need to be mapped.
Assign account representatives to manage specific accounts
Create & manage account-based custom catalog and pricing
Allows your business customers to manage their cost centers and teams, set budgets, and more
Preorder or backorder products
Provide account-based promotions
Allow a buyer org user to place orders within the budget limits of the cost center.
Map a user to more than one cost center by a buyer admin
Configure custom properties for accounts while creating and editing an account.
Create and manage custom attributes for accounts & contracts.
Associate a price rule to multiple accounts via contracts.
Manage account and contract properties.
Set default values and sequences for the attributes.
Ability to retrieve prices for an account based on pricelist or price rules.
Ability to publish the accounts data from the authoring environment to the production environment. (New!)
Ability to configure pricelist or price rule for a contract. (New!)
Ability to associate a price rule to an account via a contract. (New!)

Accounts Collection

When a B2B store is created in the Store microservice is automatically created and associated with the store. Unlike other microservices, this store-to-account collection cannot be modified. The account collection manages the account types, payment methods offered, and a list of payment terms.

Accounts Contract

Each account within the account collection has a contract, which has the following elements:

Catalog
Price List
Payment Methods
Payment Terms
Credit Limit
Merchandising Site Navigation

User Management

Infosys Equinox B2B has two (2) sets of users: seller account users and buyer users.

Account Admin: Can create an account, approve an account, assign it to an account representative for management, manage custom properties for accounts and contracts, and associate a price rule to the contract. (Update!)
Account Representative: Can manage the account including contract, account users, account orders, custom properties for accounts, and associate a price rule to the contract.
Buyer Admin: Owns the buyer side account management, sets budgets, adds account users, teams, cost centers, and manages custom properties for accounts.
Buyer: Can view products on the storefront and add products to the cart and place orders.

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