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  • 1.  TMF663 - browsing offering in order to add card item

    Posted Apr 13, 2023 06:17

    I have a question about browsing offering in order to add card item. In TMF663 I see "The customer browses the offering and chooses what he/she wants to purchase, and add it into the shopping cart". But what API should be use to browse offering ? TMF620 ? TMF679 ? Other ?
    And what about add-ons ? When in this scenario add add-on on to card ?



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  • 2.  RE: TMF663 - browsing offering in order to add card item

    Posted Apr 13, 2023 14:51

    Hi Radosław
    Basic browsing would use TMF620 operations on ProductOffering.
    If your business needs to pre-qualify offerings before displaying them (e.g. not to display high-end VPN offerings to a student), you would use TMF679 to apply the qualification.
    Hope it helps



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  • 3.  RE: TMF663 - browsing offering in order to add card item

    Posted Apr 14, 2023 07:41

    Hi,
    TMF asset IG1228 has several use cases on how to use TMF APIs. including browsing product catalogue and capturing an order.



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  • 4.  RE: TMF663 - browsing offering in order to add card item

    Posted Apr 14, 2023 08:16

    Thanks for replies.

    But which API is appropriate to returning possible add on's where logic which add-on's are possible depends from current configuration in shopping card ?



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  • 5.  RE: TMF663 - browsing offering in order to add card item

    Posted Apr 14, 2023 08:55

    This largely depends on what you mean by add-ons and how you model them in your product catalogue. There really is many possibilities. Just a few ideas:
    --   if the add-ons are stand-alone products (maybe a phone charger...) then the add-ons can be presented as:

    • cross-sells recommendations, use TMF680 (this is the future, as the application/component exposing the API could do data analysis before recommending the "best" add-on to customers)
    • related products offers, us TMF620 (productofferingrelationships, it's very "static", no logic here)

    Note: as suggested by Jonathan, both output of 680 and 620 could be further processed by TMF679 if you wish to have an eligibility status on the add-ons before it's presented to front-end/API consumer.

    --  if the add-ons are modelled as bundle components (a channel package in a IPTV bundle), then the add-ons can be presented as:

    • A list of of possible configuration options (i.e. a list of bundle components defined in the bundle or defined as a selection group in the bundle), which can be exposed by a  configurator API, which currently does not exist in TMF API library (but I read it's coming)
    • Even TMF 620 can present such bundle components (bundledProductOffering + BundledProductOfferingOption) if such add-ons don't rely on policies.

    I recommend again that you read IG1228 as all of the above suggested APIs are illustrated in IG1228.



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  • 6.  RE: TMF663 - browsing offering in order to add card item

    Posted Apr 17, 2023 02:33

    Hi Radoslaw,

    very good question. :) I wrote about qualifying & configuring add-ons in one of my posts. In short, I would use TMF679 in query mode to list qualified add-ons. The content of the shopping cart is provided with POQItems with a link to ProductRefOrValue.
    Hope it helps.

    Bostjan



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