Integrate Multi-Channel Sales With Magento API - magento

Question

Looking for advice on the sequence of Magento API calls necessary to implement this business process:
An inventory item (either physical or virtual/digital) is made available by the seller via an external channel (not the regular web storefront).
A customer initiates a payment directly to me without going through the Magento cart / checkout flow (can I lookup sales tax at this point?)
After the payment has been made, I want to trigger Magento post-processing logic to record the sale, manage inventory, etc.
For physical goods, I want to trigger Magento fulfillment logic to occur to create the shipment, etc.
I'm aware of the SOAP API, I'm looking for help to understand which actions need to be taken along the way to enact this process.

Answer 1

Here is very basic example how Magento API can be used for your case:
Connect to Magento via API
$user = 'apiUser'; $password = 'apiKey';
$proxy = new SoapClient('http://your_magento_host.com/api/v2_soap/?wsdl');
$sessionId = $proxy->login($user, $password);
Create or select customer
// Create customer
$customerList = $proxy->customerCustomerCreate($sessionId, array( 'email' => 'customer#gmail.com', 'firstname' => 'Will', 'lastname' => 'Smith', 'password' => 'qwerty', 'website_id' => 1, 'store_id' => 1, 'group_id' => 1 ));
$customer = (array) $customerList[0];
$customer['mode'] = 'customer';
// Or select existing customer (by email)
$filter = array(
'complex_filter' => array(
array(
'key' => 'email',
'value' => array('key' => 'in', 'value' => 'customer#gmail.com')
)
) );
$customerList = $proxy->customerCustomerList($sessionId, $filter);
$customer = (array) $customerList[0];
$customer['mode'] = 'customer';
Create cart
$cartId = $proxy->shoppingCartCreate($sessionId, 1);
$proxy->shoppingCartCustomerSet($sessionId, $cartId, $customer);
Select product (by sku)
$filter = array(
'complex_filter' => array(
array(
'key' => 'sku',
'value' => array('key' => 'in', 'value' => 'T-SHIRT001')
)
) );
$productList = $proxy->catalogProductList($sessionId, $filter);
$product = (array) $productList[0];
$product['qty'] = 1;
Add product to cart
$proxy->shoppingCartProductAdd($sessionId, $cartId, array($product));
Set billing/shipping address. You should add this addresses to customer if you just create it before.
$address = array(
array(
'mode' => 'shipping',
'firstname' => $customer['firstname'],
'lastname' => $customer['lastname'],
'street' => 'street address',
'city' => 'city',
'region' => 'region',
'telephone' => 'phone number',
'postcode' => 'postcode',
'country_id' => 'country ID',
'is_default_shipping' => 0,
'is_default_billing' => 0
),
array(
'mode' => 'billing',
'firstname' => $customer['firstname'],
'lastname' => $customer['lastname'],
'street' => 'street address',
'city' => 'city',
'region' => 'region',
'telephone' => 'phone number',
'postcode' => 'postcode',
'country_id' => 'country ID',
'is_default_shipping' => 0,
'is_default_billing' => 0
),
);
$proxy->shoppingCartCustomerAddresses($sessionId, $cartId, $address);
Set shipping mathod
$proxy->shoppingCartShippingMethod($sessionId, $cartId, 'flatrate_flatrate');
Set payment method.
$paymentMethod = array(
'po_number' => null,
'method' => 'checkmo',
'cc_cid' => null,
'cc_owner' => null,
'cc_number' => null,
'cc_type' => null,
'cc_exp_year' => null,
'cc_exp_month' => null
);
$proxy->shoppingCartPaymentMethod($sessionId, $cartId, $paymentMethod);
Place order
$orderId = $proxy->shoppingCartOrder($sessionId, $cartId, null, null);
Now check Sales->Orders in Magento admin area and you'll see new order.
More details here: http://www.magentocommerce.com/api/soap/introduction.html

Answer 2

Yes, you can catch information about Tax:
1) Without order saving. Step 9:
$result = $proxy->shoppingCartTotals($sessionId, $cartId);<br>
var_dump($result);
You'll see array of subtotal, taxes, discounts and total.
2) With order saving. Step 10:
$result = $proxy->salesOrderInfo($sessionId, $orderId);<br>
var_dump($result);
// cancel order<br>
$result = $proxy->salesOrderCancel($sessionId, $orderId);
More information about used API calls here:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/api/soap/checkout/cart/cart.totals.html
http://www.magentocommerce.com/api/soap/sales/salesOrder/sales_order.info.html
http://www.magentocommerce.com/api/soap/sales/salesOrder/sales_order.cancel.html