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The information contained in this section applies to WebSphere Commerce Version 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in a newer section.WebSphere Commerce is a single, unified e-commerce platform that offers the ability to do business directly with consumers (B2C), directly with businesses (B2B), and indirectly through channel partners (indirect business models). WebSphere Commerce is designed to be a customizable, scalable, and high availability solution that is built to leverage open standards. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels.
Planning
Creating a custom implementation of a WebSphere Commerce store requires a significant amount of planning. From gathering client needs, to deploying the live solution, much work is needed to successfully deploy a custom client store. Use the resources in here to help you plan every phase of store creation.
Implementation stage
During the Implementation stage of your project you use your design to customize your project to meet your specialized needs. WebSphere Commerce provides resources that you can use to learn how to customize the implementation of your project, as well as how to automate and facilitate your implementation.
Implementation stage: Customization tutorials
The product features delivered by WebSphere Commerce can be customized to meet different business requirements.

User Guide
The information contained in this section applies to WebSphere Commerce Version 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in a newer section.WebSphere Commerce is a single, unified e-commerce platform that offers the ability to do business directly with consumers (B2C), directly with businesses (B2B), and indirectly through channel partners (indirect business models). WebSphere Commerce is designed to be a customizable, scalable, and high availability solution that is built to leverage open standards. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels.
- Planning
  Creating a custom implementation of a WebSphere Commerce store requires a significant amount of planning. From gathering client needs, to deploying the live solution, much work is needed to successfully deploy a custom client store. Use the resources in here to help you plan every phase of store creation.
  - Concept stage
    During the Concept stage of your project, you communicate WebSphere Commerce capabilities to customers and internal stakeholders. WebSphere Commerce provides resources that you can use to demonstrate, describe, and evaluate WebSphere Commerce features and capabilities.
  - Design stage
    During the Design stage of your project, you review the default starter store functionality and design to understand the starter store capabilities and to identify areas to customize your implementation. WebSphere Commerce provides resources that you can use to describe, edit, and extend your project.
  - Implementation stage
    During the Implementation stage of your project you use your design to customize your project to meet your specialized needs. WebSphere Commerce provides resources that you can use to learn how to customize the implementation of your project, as well as how to automate and facilitate your implementation.
    - Implementation stage: Customization tutorials
      The product features delivered by WebSphere Commerce can be customized to meet different business requirements.
    - Implementation stage: Build and deploy tool
      WebSphere Commerce includes a build and deployment tool to address the error-prone and time-consuming nature of customized asset deployment.
    - Implementation stage: Loading data
      To set up a WebSphere Commerce website, every site needs to load the data into the WebSphere Commerce database.
  - Testing stage
    During the Testing stage of your project you test your implementation to ensure that all design customization of your project meet your stakeholder's needs. WebSphere Commerce provides resources that you can use to test your customized implementation.
  - Launch stage
    During the Launch stage of your project you start your customized WebSphere Commerce implementation, making it available online. Once live, customers can fully interact with your store.
  - Maintenance stage
    During the Maintenance stage of your project you ensure that your implementation performs smoothly, and that data is managed properly and efficiently.
- Installing
  Review the following sections for information about installing the WebSphere Commerce product, associated maintenance, and WebSphere Commerce enhancements.
- Migrating
  Before you migrate to WebSphere Commerce Version 8.0, review this information to help plan and execute your migration.
- Deploying
  The topics in this section describe how to publish stores to either a test or production environment, and how to deploy customized code.
- Operating
- Integrating
  Topics in the Integrating category highlight the tasks that are commonly performed for using WebSphere Commerce in combination with other products.
- Administering
- Tutorials
  WebSphere Commerce provides many tutorials to help you customize and understand your WebSphere Commerce instance and stores.
- Samples
- Developing
  The topics in the Developing section describe tasks performed by an application developer.
- Compliance
  The following section describes how you can leverage WebSphere Commerce features and functionality to help your site be compliant with different privacy and security standards.
- Securing
  These topics describe the security features of WebSphere Commerce and how to configure these features.
- Performance
- Troubleshooting

Implementation stage: Customization tutorials

The product features delivered by WebSphere Commerce can be customized to meet different business requirements.

Navigate the tabs below to find modifiable documentation templates and reference applications that you can use to accelerate project progress and reduce costs for every phase of a WebSphere Commerce project.

6 column table that links to the design phases: Concept, Design, Implement, Test, Launch, and Maintain
Concept stage	Design stage	Implementation stage	Testing stage	Launch stage	Maintenance stage

Introduction

Customization is a key aspect of WebSphere Commerce as every customer has unique requirements. To meet your needs, you can customize the following code assets:

Schema changes
Controller command and task command
Configuration files
Logical schema
Java Server Pages (JSP)
Java code, etc...

Tutorials

This documentation set includes a rich set of customization tutorials that you can use to help you customize WebSphere Commerce features.