Launchpad

The Launchpad serves as the central hub for all HotWax Commerce apps, providing easy access to development, user acceptance testing (UAT), and production versions of the applications all in one place.

This document outlines key pages and functions within the Launchpad.

Key items:

1. Home page

2. Application categories

3. Application instances

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Home page

Allows accessing all HotWax Commerce applications.

Characteristics:

Single Sign-On (SSO): Enables users to log in applications using their credentials. After the initial login in the Launchpad, they gain automatic access to all associated applications without the need to enter their login details again.

Application categories

Launchpad groups applications by the work they support.

Orders

Use these applications to manage order fulfillment workflows:

• BOPIS (Buy Online, Pick Up In Store): Hand over store pickup orders to customers

• Fulfillment: Pick, pack, and ship orders assigned to a store

• Pre-Orders: Manage pre-orders and backorders that use planned future inventory

Workflow

Use these applications to manage inventory availability, scheduled jobs, and order routing:

• Available to Promise: Manage the inventory available to sell

• Job Manager: Schedule and monitor jobs

• Order Routing: Configure how orders are routed to fulfillment locations

Inventory

Use these applications to receive, count, and move inventory:

• Receiving: Manage incoming shipments, purchase orders, and return orders

• Cycle Count: Count store inventory and reconcile system and physical inventory

• Transfers: Move inventory between facilities

Administration

Use these applications to manage data, users, facilities, and company configuration:

• Import: Import inventory and purchase orders

• Users: Create and manage users

• Facilities: Manage stores, warehouses, and their fulfillment settings

• Company: Manage company configuration

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Application Instances

Users can access specific instances of the HotWax apps.

Instances:

1. Production Instance: To access the production instance of an app, users can click on the respective app card.

2. UAT (User Acceptance Testing) Instance: Users can access the UAT instance of an app by clicking on the bottom right icon of the respective app card.

3. Dev (Development) Instance: Users can access the dev instance of an app by clicking on the bottom left icon of the respective app card.

Video: Application Instance

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Related flows:

1. Launchpad

2. User management