This documentation is archived and is not being maintained.
This documentation is archived and is not being maintained.
What is the Lifecycle of an Order?
Commerce Server 2009
This topic provides an overview of how you might implement your site code to process customer orders. The description provided here is not the only way to process orders, but rather is intended to introduce key orders classes and concepts. Furthermore, the topic includes only the details that are relevant to the Orders System. When a customer logs in to your Web site, for example, your site code would do more than the orders-related actions described in this topic.
The following table describes the steps that your site code might execute in response to a series of customer actions.