EcommerceStandardsDocuments Namespace

The Ecommerce Standards Documents provides a standard for storing different kinds of Ecommerce data, allowing the data be supported and transferred between business systems in a consistent, platform independent, software independent way. Its aims are provide an open, easy, and efficient way of allowing different software providers to allow Ecommerce data to be exchanged, reducing the complexities of integrations, cutting down development costs, and saving time for everybody.

The EcommerceStandardsDocument .NET library provides an implementation of the standards that allows the library to be embedded into any .NET software, and utilised by the software to store and transfer Ecommerce Standards Documents using the classes provided.

The .NET library is an open source project that can be downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/squizzdotcom/ecommerce-standards-documents-dotnet-library

Additionally the standards library can be downloaded and used natively within Java applications from the GitHub project at https://github.com/squizzdotcom/ecommerce-standards-documents-java-library

The standards library can be downloaded and used natively within PHP applications from the GitHub project at https://github.com/squizzdotcom/ecommerce-standards-documents-php-library

Document Types

The standards define a number of different types of documents. Each document type can store a set of records for a specific type of Ecommerce entity (eg. products, pricing, customer accounts). These documents can be transferred between business systems by serialising them into the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) data format, which is a human readable data format. Systems reading in the documents can then de-serialise the data, and process the data to their own needs.

In this Ecommerce Standards Documents .NET library any class prefixed with the "ESDocument" text in its class name denotes that the class can be used to store document data.

Record Types

For each Ecommerce Standards Document it contain contain a list of records, that each have a number of properties that store pieces of data. The kinds of properties available are dependent on the type that the record reflects. If a record property is prefixed with the text "key" then it denotes that the property is a unique identifier for the record, or that the record is referencing another record. These key properties can be thought of as "primary keys" or "foreign keys" in database terminology that allow records to be referenced, and linked to one another. Typically a record type will have one key property defined that allows it to be the primary identifier of the record. This allows systems to be able to detect when a document being read contains record data that may already exist within its system.

In this Ecommerce Standards Documents .NET library any class prefixed with the "ESDRecord" text in its class name denotes that the class can be used to store record data.

Document Transfer

Besides the Ecommerce Standards Documents storing data in a standardised way, each document contains a number of properties which can be used to aid in the requesting, and transfer of data between systems. These include properties to notify if the data for the document could be successfully obtained or not, and the reason why any data could not be obtained. Additionally properties can be set within both the document and the records called "drop" (Data Record OPeration), so that only a partial set of records needs to be transferred between systems, as opposed to the full set of records. This can help reduce the size of length of time required to transfer documents. The "drop" property can be set for each record to notify the system that the records being transferred to may need to have operations performed such as insertion, deletion, updating or ignoring records when they are retrieved.

Web Services

One of the primary objectives of using Ecommerce Standards Documents is to have the ability to request and retrieve the documents via the use of web services. Web services can allow the documents to be requested in real time over an internal computer network (also known as a Local Area Network LAN), or over the internet (also known as the Wide Area Network WAN) between systems. Though implementation of web services is not explicitly covered in the standards, a number of recommendations and guidelines are presented here to aid in inter-operability of systems using the documents.

Systems providing Ecommerce Standards Documents via a web service in their software will need to implement webservice "endpoints", that each allow the document data to be requested and returned for given document types. Each of the endpoints needs to return the document data in the JSON data format. Ideally the endpoints are provided as RESTful endpoints, which allow methods in the HTTP protocol to be used to control if data is being obtained to pushed between systems.

It is highly recommended that if webservices are used that any document data is sent over a secure HTTPS connection to protect the data from outsiders, especially if the data is being transferred over the public internet. Additionally document data should be compressed using the GZIP algorithm, or any other widely supported HTTP compression algorthms since each document could contain a very large amount of data. It has not been uncommon to see documents with over 300MB of data being transferred. It is also highly recommended to stream the data to allow large sized documents to be read in small chunks, rather than being stored in full in memory before processing occurs on the system retreiving the data.

It is up to software providers to name their web service endpoints however they wish, but it is recommended that authentication measures are built into each endpoint to stop unauthorised access to document data. One way to do this is through the use of placing username-password authorisation data in the header of a HTTP request to the endpoint. It is recommended that the credential data is hashed so that any web hosting servers are not logging credentials insecurely with request data, or that the raw credentials can be read by other software transferring the requests.

The ordering of the properties in a serialised JSON document is important so that the properties that describe the document's record data can be read before the records themselves. When streamed this can allow systems to report information about the document before the records are being processed, such as the amount of records being imported, as well as reading information about how to parse the record data.

Version Control

Each document contains a property that defines the version of the Ecommerce Standards Documents that it implements. It is very important for systems to check the version of the document retrieved and be able to parse it correctly for its version. Over time the document standards will change and its up to each software provider that ensure that their systems keep up with the changes to the standards. Major version changes may indicate that significant changes have been made and may be entirely incompatible with earlier versions. For example parsing version 2 of one type of document, may not be compatible with parsing version 1 of the same document type. It is important for software providers when writing parsers for documents that they are fault tolarant. For example if a product record contains the property "product_title", that if the property does not exist in the standards then to just ignore the property. By doing so it may allow systems not keeping up with the minor version changes to the standards to still have the ability to understand a document. This also also allows software providers to add non-standards properties to documents and records, however it should not be presumed that any other system will be able to understand these properties.

The current version of the Ecommerce Standards Documents is

1.5

Currently any changes to the standards must be requested to the Standards maintainer, this is currently Rowan Drew at Squizz Pty Ltd. In the future a board or non-profit organisation may be organised to oversee changes to the standards, ensuring independence, and industry wide agreement.

History

The Ecommerce Standards Documents was first created by Rowan Drew working for TOTECS Pty Ltd to allow its Connector software to integrate into several accounting and Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) systems. Between 2006-2016 he saw consistent design patterns that each of these systems implemented when storing and using Ecommerce data, and developed the standards so that the data from each system could be imported into the TOTECS platform in the same way, as well as be exported back. This greatly simplified the development of integrations into new systems, and reduced the development time from 6-12 months, down to 4-8 weeks.

By opening up the standards to the software providers in the wider industry, the aims are to further reduce the integration times so that each software provider only needs to translate their systems data into the standards, and then any other software provider in the industry can talk directly to the other system. This has many benefits since a software provider knows their own system the best, so they can be make the best judgement on which pieces of data need to placed into the correct document. The standards also allow a software provider to make major changes to their systems internal data structures between versions. but still allow third party software to obtain the data in the same consistent document standards.

Over time the document standards have evolved as more functionality has been requested and expected by the wider community using Ecommerce websites and systems. As this evolution is expected to continue these Ecommerce Standards Documents will continue to expand, helping out the wider Ecommerce industry.

Ecommerce Standards Document Library For .NET

This Library has been created to the allow the Ecommerce Standards Documents to be created and manipulated easily in .NET software applications. It allows documents and records to be represented as .NET classes and have data stored in memory as objects, free to be filled with data, passed around, and serialised into the standards JSON form.

Getting Started Using The .NET Library

To get started using the Ecommerce Standards Documents library obtain the DLL file from your contact person. Save the DLL file in a location of choice. Within the Visual Studio application open up your chosen .NET project, then add a reference to the project's dll. Once the reference has been added, then for each class add the EcommerceStandardsDocuments namespace to be able to stand creating the document objects.

Examples

Example code usage of the Product Ecommerce Standards Document to obtain 2 product records.

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using System.ServiceModel;
using System.ServiceModel.Activation;
using System.ServiceModel.Web;
using EcommerceStandardsDocuments;

namespace MyApp{
    public class MyClass
    {
        /// <summary> Obtains a list of products records contained within an a products Ecommerce Standards Document</summary>
        public ESDocumentProduct getProducts()
        {
            List<ESDRecordProduct> products = new List<ESDRecord>();
            Dictionary<string, string> docConfigs = new Dictionary<string, string>();

            //create a new product Ecomerce Standards Document
            ESDocumentProduct productsDoc = new ESDocumentProduct(ESDocumentConstants.RESULT_ERROR_UNKNOWN, "Unable to get product data.", null, null);

            //create a record for a tea towel product
            ESDRecordProduct product1 = new ESDRecordProduct();
            product1.keyProductID = "1";
            product1.productCode = "PROD-1";
            product1.name = "Tea Towels";
            product1.description1 = "An assorted bundle of different coloured tea towels";
            products.add(product1);

            //create another record for a kettle product
           ESDRecordProduct product2 = new ESDRecordProduct();
            product2.keyProductID = "2";
            product2.productCode = "PROD-2";
            product2.name = "Kettle";
            products.add(product2);

            //in the document configs list all the properties of the product records that are being set, any properties not in the list can be ignored by the system when processing the product records
            docConfigs.Add("dataFields","keyProductID,productCode,name,description1");

            //assign the product records to the document and update document meta data
            productsDoc.configs = docConfigs;
            productsDoc.totalDataRecords = products.Count;
            productsDoc.dataRecords = products.ToArray();
            productsDoc.resultStatus = ESDocumentConstants.RESULT_SUCCESS;
            productsDoc.message = "Product data has been successfully obtained.";

            return productsDoc;
         }

         /// <summary>
         ///  Serializes a product Ecommerce Standards Document into a stream of JSON data. That JSON data is returned in a WCF (Windows Communication Library) message object, which would typically be set in the HTTP response to a web service endpoint GET request.
         ///  In this example the document is being serialized using the JSON.net open source library, which is included in the Ecommerce Standards Library.
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="productsDoc">Ecommerce Standards Document containing product record data.</param>
         /// <returns>WCF message containing the serialised JSON data.</returns>
         public System.ServiceModel.Channels.Message serializeESProductDocument(ESDocumentProduct productsDoc)
         {
            //Set HTTP response header to denote that the data will be GZipped. Note that the actual compression would occur outside this method.
            WebOperationContext.Current.OutgoingResponse.Headers[HttpResponseHeader.ContentEncoding] = "gzip";

            //Create JSON.NET serializer that will ignore including JSON properties that contain empty values
            JsonSerializer serializer = new JsonSerializer();
            serializer.NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore;
            serializer.MissingMemberHandling = MissingMemberHandling.Ignore;

            //serialise the products Ecommerce Standards Document
            string jsonSerialized = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(productsDoc);

            //Place the serialised JSON data into a memory stream
            MemoryStream resultBody = new MemoryStream(new UTF8Encoding().GetBytes(jsonSerialized));
            resultBody.Position = 0;

            //Resurn the serialised JSON data into WCF's response message, which can allow it to be included in the body of a HTTP response from a web service RESTful endpoint request
            return WebOperationContext.Current.CreateStreamResponse(resultBody, "application/json");
         }
    }
}

An example of the Product Ecommerce Standards Document in its JSON serialised form for data transfer.

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{
    "version": 1.5,
    "resultStatus": 1,
    "message":"Product data has been successfully obtained.",
    "totalDataRecords": 2,
    "dataTransferMode": "COMPLETE",
    "configs": {"dataFields":"keyProductID,productCode,name,description1"},
    "dataRecords":
    [
            {
                "keyProductID":"1",
                "productCode":"PROD-1",
                "name":"Tea Towels",
                "description1":"An assorted bundle of different coloured tea towels."
            },
            {
                "keyProductID":"2",
                "productCode":"PROD-2",
                "name":"Kettle"
            }
    ]
}

Note that the new line characters would be normally not be included when the document is serialised. These have just been included for demonstration purposes.

Getting Started With Non .NET Programming Languages

To get started using the Ecommerce Standards Documents in a programming language other than .NET, Java or PHP, you will need to create your own classes to represent the document and records types containing the same properties as is speciified in the .NET library. You may wish to use a JSON library to directly represent the serialised form of the documents. Over time we look to provide libraries of the documents to more programming languages. If you wish to help this process please contact the document maintainer.

Ecommerce Standards Documents Web Service Template Project

An open source project has been added to GitHub that provides an example webservice application built in the .NET that returns and reads Ecommerce Standards Documents data. The project's source code can be found at Ecommerce Standards Documents Webservice Template. Using the project it can help build a standards based webservice into existing business systems built in the .NET platform.

Web Service End Points

Below are the following recommended end points for software providers to implement in the web service component of their systems for handling Ecommerce Standards Documents. Note that not all systems will require all endpoints to exist, but it would be useful to return empty documents if the supporting system has no data for the endpoint.

Endpoint Name	Returned Document	Input Arguments	Description
getCategories	ESDocumentCategory	-	Returns a list of categories records, as well as products, labour, and downloads mappings associated to each category.
getCustomerAccounts	ESDocumentCustomerAccount	-	Returns a list of customer account records.
getCustomerAccountStatus	ESDocumentCustomerAccount	keyCustomerAccountID, checkOnHold, checkBalance, checkTerms	Returns a single customer account record that contains information about the account's status. This endpoint typically allows a real time request to see the status of the account. Optionally checks can be done to see if it is on hold, outside its balance limit, and that it is within its terms.
getCustomerAccountAddresses	ESDocumentCustomerAccountAddress	-	Returns a list of customer account address records.
getCustomerAccountContact	ESDocumentCustomerAccountContact	-	Returns a list of customer account contract records.
getCustomerAccountEnquiryRecords	ESDocumentCustomerAccountEnquiry	keyCustomerAccountID, recordType, beginDate, endDate, pageNumber, numberOfRecords, outstandingRecords, searchType, searchString, keyRecordIDs	Returns a list of customer account enquiry records for a single customer account based on a given record type (either transactions, invoices, sales orders, back orders, payments, or credits). It can allow searching based on the account type, over a given date range. Each record does not need to contain any line data.
getCustomerAccountEnquiryRecord	ESDocumentCustomerAccountEnquiry	keyCustomerAccountID, recordType, keyRecordID	Returns a list of customer account enquiry records that contains only one record for a customer account based on a given record type (either a transaction, invoice, sales order, back order, payment, or credit). The record contains all possible data for it, including all lines set in it.
getCustomerAccountProductPrice	ESDocumentCustomerAccountProductPrice	-keyCustomerAccountID, keyProductID, quantity	Returns the price of a single product for a given customer account. This allows for live quering of product pricing. However it is not recommended to be used between systems over a long, slow connection.
getDownloads	ESDocumentDownload	-	Returns a list of download records.
getItemGroups	ESDocumentItemGroups	-	Returns a list of item group records.
getItemRelations	ESDocumentItemRelations	-	Returns a list of item relations records.
getLocations	ESDocumentLocation	-	Returns a list of location records.
getPaymentTypes	ESDocumentPaymentType	-	Returns a list of payment type records.
getPriceLevels	ESDocumentPriceLevel	-	Returns a list of price-level records.
getProducts	ESDocumentProduct	-	Returns a list of product records.
getProductAlternateCodes	ESDocumentAlternateCode	-	Returns a list of alternate code records associated to products.
getProductAttachments	ESDocumentAttachment	-	Returns a list of attachment records associated to products. This can be used to locate files associated with the products.
getProductAttributes	ESDocumentAttribute	-	Returns a list of attribute profile records, as well as attribute value records assigned to products.
getProductCombination	ESDocumentProductCombination	-	Returns a list of product combination profile records, as well as mappings of field-value combinations between parent and child products.
getProductFlags	ESDocumentFlag	-	Returns a list of records that assign flags to products.
getProductImages	ESDocumentProductImage	-	Returns a list of image records associated to products. These records can be used to locate image files associated to products.
getProductKits	ESDocumentKit	-	Returns a list of kit records which associate component products to kit products.
getProductPriceLevelPricing	ESDocumentProductPrice	-	Returns a list of single unit pricing records for each price-level for all products.
getProductPriceLevelQuantityPricing	ESDocumentPrice	-	Returns a list of quantity break pricing records for each price-level for all products.
getProductCustomerAccountPricing	ESDocumentPrice	-	Returns a list of product price records that are specifically related to customer accounts, or to pricing groups that customer accounts are assigned to. This endpoint is typically used to obtain contract/special/promotional pricing related to specific accounts. It is highly recommended to use pricing groups if the same pricing rules have been applied to customer accounts.
getProductStockQuantities	ESDocumentStockQuantity	-	Returns a list of stock quantity records. These records containg the quantity of stock available to the products. Sometimes this endpoint can be called very frequently to ensure that stock data is up to date in other systems in "near real time".
getPurchasers	ESDocumentPurchaser	-	Returns a list of purchaser records.
getSalesReps	ESDocumentSalesRep	-	Returns a list of sales representative records.
getSellUnits	ESDocumentSellUnit	-	Returns a list of sell unit records.
getSupplierAccounts	ESDocumentSupplierAccount	-	Returns a list of supplier account records.
getSupplierAccountAddresses	ESDocumentSupplierAccountAddress	-	Returns a list of supplier account address records.
getSupplierAccountEnquiryRecords	ESDocumentSupplierAccountEnquiry	keySupplierAccountID, recordType, beginDate, endDate, pageNumber, numberOfRecords, outstandingRecords, searchType, searchString, keyRecordIDs	Returns a list of supplier account enquiry records for a single supplier account based on a given record type (either transactions, purchase orders, payments, or credits). It can allow searching based on the account type, over a given date range. Each record does not need to contain any line data.
getSupplierAccountEnquiryRecord	ESDocumentSupplierAccountEnquiry	keySupplierAccountID, recordType, keyRecordID	Returns a list of supplier account enquiry records that contains only one record for a supplier account based on a given record type (either a transaction, purchase order, payment, or credit). The record contains all possible data for it, including all lines set in it.
getSurcharges	ESDocumentSurcharge	-	Returns a list of surcharge records.
getTaxcodes	ESDocumentTaxcode	-	Returns a list of taxcode records.
getStatus	ESDocument	-	Returns a the status of the system.
postSaleOrders	ESDocument	ESDocumentOrderSale	Pushes a list of sales order records, allowing the records to be saved to the system. The ESDocumentOrderSale data should be placed in the body of the http request, with the returned ESDocument reporting if all sales order records were successfully processed or not. It is recommended to only place one sales order into the document if transactions are not supported when creating multiple sales orders through one request.
postPurchaseOrders	ESDocument	ESDocumentOrderPurchase	Pushes a list of purchaser order records, allowing the records to be saved to the system. This could cause new product, download, labour, pricing, alternate code, supplier account, and supplier account address records to get created in the system. The ESDocumentOrderPurchase data should be placed in the body of the http request, with the returned ESDocument reporting if all purchase order records were successfully processed or not. It is recommended to only place one purchase order into the document if transactions are not supported when creating multiple purchase orders through one request.
postCustomerAccounts	ESDocument	ESDocumentCustomerAccount	Pushes a list of customer account records, allowing the records to be saved to the system. This could cause new customer account records to get created in the system. The ESDocumentCustomerAccount data should be placed in the body of the http request, with the returned ESDocument reporting if all customer account records were successfully processed or not. It is recommended to only place one customer account into the document if transactions are not supported when creating multiple customer accounts through one request.
postCustomerAccountPayments	ESDocument	ESDocumentCustomerAccountPament	Pushes a list of customer account payment records, allowing the records to be saved to the system. This allows payments to be applied against orders and invoice records for a given customer account. The ESDocumentCustomerAccountPayment data should be placed in the body of the http request, with the returned ESDocument reporting if all customer account payment records were successfully processed or not. It is recommended to only place one customer account payment into the document if transactions are not supported when creating multiple customer account payments through one request.

Classes

	Class	Description
	ESDocument	Ecommerce Standards Document that contains the base set of properties for all documents
	ESDocumentAlternateCode	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of alternate code records associated with products, downloads, or labour
	ESDocumentAsset	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of asset records
	ESDocumentAssetComponent	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of asset component records, that define the relationships between assets, and the components that make up an asset.
	ESDocumentAttachment	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of attachment file records associated with products, downloads or labour
	ESDocumentAttribute	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of attribute records associated with products, download, and labour, as well as a list of attribute profile records
	ESDocumentCategory	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of category records, and a list of category tree records
	ESDocumentConstants	Contains a list of variable constants that can be used in Ecommerce Standards Documents and records
	ESDocumentCurrencyExchangeRate	Ecommerce standards document that holds a list of currency exchange rate records
	ESDocumentCustomerAccount	Ecommerce standards document that holds a list of customer account records
	ESDocumentCustomerAccountAddress	Ecommerce standards document that holds a list of address records for customer accounts
	ESDocumentCustomerAccountContact	Ecommerce standards document that holds a list of contacts records that are associated to customer accounts. These are the people who are linked to each customer account.
	ESDocumentCustomerAccountContract	Ecommerce standards document that holds a list of contract records for customer accounts
	ESDocumentCustomerAccountEnquiry	Ecommerce standards document that holds lists of invoices, transactions, sales orders, back orders, credits and payment records for customer accounts. This document can by used in many ways for enquiring about different data associated to a customer account's finances.
	ESDocumentCustomerAccountEnquiryLine
	ESDocumentCustomerAccountEnquiryProductPrice	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of pricing records applicable to a customer account for a number of products
	ESDocumentCustomerAccountPayment	Ecommerce standards document that holds a list of customer account payment records
	ESDocumentCustomerInvoice	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of customer invoice records
	ESDocumentDeliveryNotice	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of delivery notice records
	ESDocumentDownload	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of download records.
	ESDocumentFlag	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of flag records and products, dowloads, or labour assigned to flags
	ESDocumentGeneralLedgerAccount	Ecommerce standards document that holds a list of general ledger account records
	ESDocumentImage	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of image file records associated with products, downloads, or labour
	ESDocumentItemGroup	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of item group records
	ESDocumentItemRelation	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of item relation records
	ESDocumentKit	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of kit records
	ESDocumentLabour	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of labour records.
	ESDocumentLocation	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of location records
	ESDocumentLocationContact	Ecommerce standards document that holds a list of contacts records that are associated to locations. These are the people who are linked or can be found at the location.
	ESDocumentMaker	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of maker/manufacturer records
	ESDocumentMakerModel	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of model records associated to makers/manufacturers
	ESDocumentMakerModelMapping	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of maker model mappings records that associate product, download, or labour records to categories within models manufactured or assembled by makers/manufacturers
	ESDocumentOrderPurchase	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of purchase order records
	ESDocumentOrderSale	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of sales order records
	ESDocumentPaymentType	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of payment type records
	ESDocumentPrice	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of pricing records for either products, downloads, or labour
	ESDocumentPriceLevel	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of price level records
	ESDocumentProduct	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of product records
	ESDocumentProductCombination	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of product combination records, and a list of product combination profile records
	ESDocumentPurchaser	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of purchaser records
	ESDocumentSalesRep	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of sales representative records
	ESDocumentSellUnit	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of sell unit records
	ESDocumentStockQuantity	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of stock quantity records
	ESDocumentSupplierAccount	Ecommerce standards document that holds a list of supplier account records
	ESDocumentSupplierAccountAddress	Ecommerce standards document that holds a list of address records for supplier accounts
	ESDocumentSupplierAccountContact	Ecommerce standards document that holds a list of supplier account records
	ESDocumentSupplierAccountEnquiry	Ecommerce standards document that holds lists of purchase orders for supplier accounts. This document can by used in many ways for enquiring about different data associated to a supplier account's finances.
	ESDocumentSupplierInvoice	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of supplier invoice records
	ESDocumentSurcharge	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of surcharge records
	ESDocumentTaxcode	Ecommerce standards document that contains a list of taxcode records
	ESDocumentType	Contains the types of Ecommerce Standards Documents (ESD) that the library contains
	ESDRecordAccountPaymentSurcharge	Details of a surcharge assigned to an customer/supplier account payment record within a Ecommerce Standards Document
	ESDRecordAccountPaymentSurchargeTax	Details of a tax assigned to a customer/supplier payment surcharge within a Ecommerce Standards Document
	ESDRecordAlternateCode	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single alternate code for a product, download, or labour. An alternate code is a different code that could be used to identify a product, download, or labour.
	ESDRecordAsset	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single asset. An asset can be single instance of a tangible or intangible product/service/resource that is created, owned, traded, and may ultimately be destroyed.
	ESDRecordAssetComponent	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single relationship between an asset belonging to another parent asset. This allows an asset to be made of many component assets to make a single collective larger asset/resource
	ESDRecordAttachment	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single attachment file associated to a product, download, or labour.
	ESDRecordAttribute	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single attribute associated with products, downloads, or labour. Attributes define the fields that can have values set for products, downloads, or labour.
	ESDRecordAttributeProfile	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single attribute profile associated with entities such as products, download, labour or models. A profile allows any number of attributes to be grouped together.
	ESDRecordAttributeValue	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single product, download, labour or model attribute value.
	ESDRecordCategory	Ecommerce Standards record that contains data for a single category. A category is a representation of a collection of objects, and can be linked in a hierarchical data structure.
	ESDRecordCategoryTree	Ecommerce Standards record that contains data for a single category tree. A category tree represents an overall hierarchical collection of categories, used to navigate and find associated products, maker models etc.. assigned to each category.
	ESDRecordCombinationProfile	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single combination profile. Each profile defines the fields and field-values that are available for any number of combination products, downloads, or labour.
	ESDRecordCombinationProfileField	Ecommerce Standards Record for storing the field data associated to a combination profile. Each field can contain any number of field-values, which allows products, downloads, and labour to be assigned to.
	ESDRecordContact	Ecommerce Standards record that contains data for a single contact. A contact contains information about a person on how they can be communicated with. The contact record may be linked to a customer account, or supplier account
	ESDRecordCurrencyExchangeRate	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single currency exchange rate that reflects the cost of purchasing one currency from another. These rates may be used to influence the price of selling or buying goods and services between states or countries.
	ESDRecordCustomerAccount	Ecommerce Standards record that contains data for a single customer account. A customer account represents an entity (such as a person or organisation) that purchases from another entity where the account exists. The customer account may also known as a "debtor".
	ESDRecordCustomerAccountAddress	Ecommerce Standards record that contains the data of a single address associated to a customer account.
	ESDRecordCustomerAccountContract	Ecommerce Standards record that contains the data of a single customer account contract. A contract record may be applied to a number of customer accounts and products for a given amount of time.
	ESDRecordCustomerAccountEnquiryBackOrder	Ecommerce Standards record that contains the data of a single Back Order that can be queried for a customer account. A back order record contains information about goods ordered by a customer account that needed to be ordered from an external supplier. The account enquiry aspect denotes that the record may be queried in real time and contain additional information associated with the record.
	ESDRecordCustomerAccountEnquiryBackOrderLine	Ecommerce Standard Record holding data for a customer account back order line
	ESDRecordCustomerAccountEnquiryCredit	Ecommerce Standards record that contains the data of a single Credit that can be queried for a customer account. A credit record contains information about a monetary amount applied to the account's balance. The account enquiry aspect denotes that the record may be queried in real time and contain additional information associated with the record.
	ESDRecordCustomerAccountEnquiryCreditLine	Ecommerce Standard Record holding line data for a customer account credit enquiry
	ESDRecordCustomerAccountEnquiryInvoice	Ecommerce Standards record that contains the data of a single Invoice that can be queried for a customer account. An invoice record contains information about items ordered by a customer account. The account enquiry aspect denotes that the record may be queried in real time and contain additional information associated with the record.
	ESDRecordCustomerAccountEnquiryInvoiceLine	Ecommerce Standard Record holding data for a customer account invoice line
	ESDRecordCustomerAccountEnquiryOrderSale	Ecommerce Standards record that contains the data of a single Sales Order that can be queried for a customer account. A sales order record contains information about items ordered by a customer account. The account enquiry aspect denotes that the record may be queried in real time and contain additional information associated with the record.
	ESDRecordCustomerAccountEnquiryOrderSaleLine	Ecommerce Standard Record holding data for a customer account order line
	ESDRecordCustomerAccountEnquiryPayment	Ecommerce Standards record that contains the data of a single Payment that can be queried for a customer account. A payment record contains information about a positive monetary amount paid to the customer account's balance. The account enquiry aspect denotes that the record may be queried in real time and contain additional information associated with the record.
	ESDRecordCustomerAccountEnquiryPaymentLine	Ecommerce Standard Record holding data for a customer account enquiry payment line
	ESDRecordCustomerAccountEnquiryProductPrice	Holds a product's price based on a specific account price that is used for the web
	ESDRecordCustomerAccountEnquiryQuote	Ecommerce Standards record that contains the data of a single quote that can be queried for a customer account. A quote record contains information about items that need to be confirmed and priced for a customer account. The account enquiry aspect denotes that the record may be queried in real time and contain additional information associated with the record.
	ESDRecordCustomerAccountEnquiryQuoteLine	Ecommerce Standard Record holding data for a customer account quote line. The line stores information about a single type of product, goods or service, and the pricing quoted to purchase the item
	ESDRecordCustomerAccountEnquiryTransaction	Ecommerce Standards record that contains the data of a single transaction that can be queried for a customer account. A transaction record contains information about a positive or negative amount applied against the customer account's balance, as well the balance after the amount was applied. The account enquiry aspect denotes that the record may be queried in real time and contain additional information associated with the record.
	ESDRecordCustomerAccountPayment	Ecommerce Standard Document that holds details of a payment made by a customer account for a given record type
	ESDRecordCustomerAccountPaymentRecord	Ecommerce Standard Document that holds details of a record associated to a payment made by a customer account
	ESDRecordCustomerInvoice	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single invoice raised against a customer. A customer invoice specifies goods and/or services that have been purchased from a customer, and the monetary amount that the customer owes.
	ESDRecordCustomerInvoiceLine	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single line in a customer's invoice.
	ESDRecordDeliveryNotice	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single delivery notice. The delivery notice (also known as an Advanced Ship Notice (ASN)) advises of the delivery of products being made by the supplier. The notice can advise when goods are being packed, dispatched, in-transit, held in storage, delivered, lost, or cancelled
	ESDRecordDeliveryNoticeLine	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single line in a delivery notice record. The line indicates the quantity of a product that is being delivered, or in the process thereof.
	ESDRecordDownload	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single download. A download represents a piece of digital information, that may be stored, sold, or transferred.
	ESDRecordFlag	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single type of flag. A flag can allow different entities (such as products) to be marked, allowing them to be highlighted, given additional meaning, or extra importance.
	ESDRecordFlagMapping	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single mapping between a flag and either a product, download, or labour entity.
	ESDRecordGeneralLedgerAccount	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single General Ledger Account. The account is used to record the monetary transactions against an aspect of a business, person or other entity, recorded against the General Ledger.
	ESDRecordImage	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data associated with a single product, download, or labour image.
	ESDRecordInvoiceLineAttribute	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single attribute and value within an invoice line. This allows any additional fields and field values to be with the invoice line.
	ESDRecordInvoiceLineAttributeProfile	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single attribute profile for an invoice line. This allows any additional attribute data to be set for the line.
	ESDRecordInvoiceLineTax	Details of a tax assigned to a invoice line within a Ecommerce Standards Document
	ESDRecordInvoicePayment	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single payment associated to an invoice.
	ESDRecordInvoiceSurcharge	Details of a surcharge assigned to an invoice record within a Ecommerce Standards Document
	ESDRecordItemGroup	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single item group. Each record represents a group of assigned products, downloads and/or labour.
	ESDRecordItemRelation	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single relation between items. Each record links one product, labour, or download record to another product, labour, or download record
	ESDRecordKitComponent	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single product, download, or labour assigned to a kit. A kit allows any number of products, downloads, or labour to be assigned it.
	ESDRecordLabour	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single labour record. Labour describes the different kinds of effort required to perform a piece of work.
	ESDRecordLocation	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single location. Location could be a physical geographical location or a virtual place.
	ESDRecordMaker	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single maker/manufacturer. A maker/manufacturer builds and/or assembles models which contain a collection of products or raw materials.
	ESDRecordMakerModel	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single model created or assembled by a maker/manufacturer. Each model is made up of a collection of products or raw materials.
	ESDRecordMakerModelMapping	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single mapping between a maker/manufacturer's model, a category, and either a product, download, or labour entity. Each mapping may also contain any number of attribute values to contain more data about the mapped entity in relation to the model
	ESDRecordOrderLineAttribute	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single attribute and value within a order line. This allows any additional fields and field values to be set with the order line.
	ESDRecordOrderLineAttributeProfile	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single attribute profile set for a order line. This allows any additional attribute data to be set for the line.
	ESDRecordOrderLineTax	Details of a tax assigned to a order line within a Ecommerce Standards Document
	ESDRecordOrderPayment	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single payment associated to an order.
	ESDRecordOrderProductDelivery	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single product delivery associated to an order.
	ESDRecordOrderPurchase	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single purchase order. A purchase order indicates an intent to buy goods and services off a supplier.
	ESDRecordOrderPurchaseLine	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single line in a purchase order.
	ESDRecordOrderSale	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single sales order. A sales order indicates an intent of a customer account to make a purchase.
	ESDRecordOrderSaleLine	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single line in a sales order.
	ESDRecordOrderSurcharge	Details of a surcharge assigned to an order record within a Ecommerce Standards Document
	ESDRecordPaymentType	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single payment type. Each payment type defines a way to purchase goods and services, or the way that goods and servies were paid for.
	ESDRecordPrice	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single product price. The price may be assigned to a price-level, a price-group, or a customer account
	ESDRecordPriceLevel	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single price level. A price level allows multiple prices to be set for the same product, download, or labour record
	ESDRecordProduct	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single product. A product can be a physical or non-physical item that can be sold in quantities.
	ESDRecordProductCombination	Ecommerce Standards record for associating a child product with a given combination of fields and values
	ESDRecordProductCombinationParent	Ecommerce Standards record for associating a parent product with a product combination profile, and all of its associated product-field-value combinations
	ESDRecordPurchaser	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single purchaser. A purchaser represents an entity (person or organisation) that may buy products, manage supplier accounts, and place purchase orders with suppliers.
	ESDRecordSalesRep	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single sales representative. A sales representative represents an entity (person or organisation) that may sell products, manage customer accounts, and place sales orders on behalf of customers among other things.
	ESDRecordSellUnit	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single sell unit. The unit defines how a product, download, or labour is sold individually.
	ESDRecordStockQuantity	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a stock unit quantity of a product, download or labour. This record typically stores stock quantity data that can updated on a frequent basis.
	ESDRecordSupplierAccount	Ecommerce Standards record that contains data for a single supplier account. A supplier account represents an entity (such as a person or organisation) that supplies goods/services/items from another external entity. The supplier account may also known as a "creditor".
	ESDRecordSupplierAccountAddress	Ecommerce Standards record that contains the data of a single address associated to a supplier account.
	ESDRecordSupplierAccountEnquiryOrderPurchase	Ecommerce Standards record that contains the data of a single Purchase Order that can be queried for a supplier account. A purchase order record contains information about items ordered by a supplier account. The account enquiry aspect denotes that the record may be queried in real time and contain additional information associated with the record.
	ESDRecordSupplierAccountEnquiryOrderPurchaseLine	Ecommerce Standard Record holding data for a supplier account order line
	ESDRecordSupplierInvoice	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single invoice sent from a supplier. A supplier invoice specifies goods and/or services that have been purchased from a supplier, and the monetary amount owed to the supplier.
	ESDRecordSupplierInvoiceLine	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single line in a supplier's invoice.
	ESDRecordSurcharge	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single surcharge. Each surcharge defines a type of monetary amount that may be added or substracted which is factored into the final price of purchasing goods or services.
	ESDRecordTaxcode	Ecommerce Standards Record that holds data for a single taxcode. Each taxcode defines a type of tax that can be calculated for any relevant monetary price.
	ESDRecordType	Contains the types of Ecommerce Standards Document (ESD) records that the library contains