“Checkout Flow. In and Out”

Consumers logs in to web stores, choose items they want to buy, and check out. A few days later packages arrive on their doorstep. We have to take that and make it a shopping experience. We can identify stumbling blocks and remove them but what can we do from a developer’s standpoint?

Since the beginning, Magento developers have been facing challenges in implementation and customization of checkout functionality, and in order to address these challenges we need to rethink our skills and competencies every single day.

In eCommerce we don’t have that luxury of in store managers to salvage a sale in the event of a problem, so we need to make our stores run as seamlessly as possible.  Magento out of the box cannot cover the checkout needs of every type of business but that does not mean we can’t customize them or develop a new one that can meet unique requirements and matches client needs.

The two main areas that we believe should be improved on a day-to-day basis are security and performance:

• Checkout Types Overview.
• Quote vs. Order. The reasons to have them both.
• ERP, CRM, WAS integrations and best practices.
• Performance issues and challenges.
• Logical and DB-level deadlocks in Checkout.