e-Store

The e-Store module helps you set up a web store where you can sell products, services and media.

The demo site shows an example of selling books. The e-Store (/e-store/) section contains two subsections: Books (/e-store/books/) and Affiliates (/e-store/affiliates/).

To provide a better user experience, the catalog is structured by creating a new information block type (Book catalog), for which the following information blocks were created:

• Authors;
• Books;
• Reviews.

Here, the Books information block is a commercial catalog whose elements are displayed for sale in the e-Store. The catalog is rendered using the Full catalog component. The Books section offers two subsections: Authors and Reviews, where the first one contains information about authors, while the latter displays reviews about books.

The structure is built in such a way that each book is linked to its author. To achieve this, a special property Authors (of the Link to element type) was added to the Books information block. Additionally, each Review is linked to a certain book by creating a Book review property (of the Link to element type).

An affiliate is a special kind of a commercial partner in the Internet that does not directly sell products but publishes a link to a merchant's product page on a web site. If a customer was driven by that link and purchased a product, the affiliate gains a commission indicated in the contract. The Affiliates section spotlights on the following features illustrating the concept:

• the Affiliate account page displays information on the affiliates' account money flow;
• example of the affiliate registration form;
• example of displaying the existing affiliate plans using visual components;
• bonus: instructions on creating the product purchase and affiliate registration links.

The e-Store module is also capable of selling the on-line content. In the context of Bitrix Site Manager, the content selling is adding a user to a user group having enough permissions to access the information to be sold. As an example, a user can be added to the Subscribers user group for one month: this group is given the permission to view full articles.