Lynx Punchout

Description

Large customers often buy through a procurement system (SAP SRM, SAP Ariba, Coupa and others). They expect suppliers to offer a punchout catalogue: the buyer opens your shop from their procurement system, fills a cart, and the cart goes back to the procurement system instead of going through your checkout.

Try it as a buyer, without any procurement system: live demo.

Lynx Punchout adds this to a WooCommerce shop:

• SAP OCI and cXML punchout, from the same shop.
• The buyer is logged in automatically with the customer account you choose, so they see their own prices and catalogue.
• On the cart page, the checkout button is replaced by “Transfer to your procurement system” for punchout sessions only. Your regular customers are not affected.
• cXML edit and inspect operations are supported (the previous cart is reloaded; inspect is read-only).
• Buyers are managed from your WordPress admin: login, password, allowed return domains, linked customer account.
• Purchase orders (Pro plan): cXML purchase orders (OrderRequest) sent by the procurement system become WooCommerce orders, at the prices of the purchase order. Setting the order to “Processing” sends the order confirmation, “Cancelled” rejects it, “Completed” sends the ship notice (with the tracking number of WooCommerce Shipment Tracking, if used).
• Compatible with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage.

This plugin needs the Lynx Punchout service

The plugin is the WordPress side of a hosted service. The Lynx Punchout gateway receives the punchout requests of the procurement systems, checks the buyer’s credentials, and converts the cart to the OCI or cXML format expected by each system. The plugin cannot do punchout without it.

The service is paid, per shop, after a 14-day free trial that needs no payment details and includes everything:

• Standard: 9 EUR per month or 90 EUR per year (punchout).
• Pro: 19 EUR per month or 190 EUR per year (punchout and cXML purchase orders).

All the code of the plugin is included and nothing in it is locked; the gateway decides what the subscription covers. Without an active subscription the service stops accepting punchout sessions, cart transfers and purchase orders.

External services

This plugin connects to the Lynx Punchout gateway (https://api.lynx-market.cloud), operated by Lynx Market. Nothing is sent before you click “Activate” on the plugin’s settings page.

What is sent, and when:

• When you click “Activate”: your site address, your site name and a single-use verification code. The gateway then calls your site back once to deliver the shop ID and licence key.
• When you manage buyers: the buyer’s login, password, allowed return domains, the login of the linked WordPress account and, optionally, the address where order documents are sent. The gateway stores the password hashed, plus an encrypted copy needed to authenticate the order documents it sends to the procurement system.
• When a buyer opens a punchout session: the single-use token received in the link, to obtain the session details.
• When a buyer transfers a cart: the cart lines (product ID, SKU, name, quantity, price excluding tax, currency) and the site language. No customer address or payment data is sent.
• When you click “Test connection”: a signed empty request.
• Purchase orders: the procurement system sends its purchase orders to the gateway, which keeps them for 180 days (order number, lines, delivery and billing addresses, buyer comments). The gateway then calls your site’s route lynx-punchout/v1/orders/sync without any data, and the plugin fetches the pending orders with a signed request, then sends back the ID of the WooCommerce order created. This also runs once an hour.
• When a purchase order changes status (Processing, Cancelled, Completed): its gateway ID, the kind of document to send, and for a shipment the carrier and tracking number. The gateway forwards the document to the procurement system.

Requests are signed with your licence key and sent over HTTPS.

The subscription is paid with PayPal on PayPal’s own pages; the plugin only links to them.

• Service terms: https://lynx-market.cloud/conditions/
• Privacy policy: https://lynx-market.cloud/confidentialite/
• PayPal privacy statement: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full