February 23, 2022 PrismWeb Release Notes

PrismWeb is the preferred, e-commerce solution for PrismCore and Mosaic. As additional functionality is added to Mosaic, application APIs are expanding to offer consistent behavior regardless of a store’s inventory management system. Along with essential data exchange, there is an ongoing initiative to unify website configuration, content management, and order processing within Mosaic. This application makes use of enhanced Mosaic APIs to exchange data.

Mosaic integration

New tenders support – Updates to AR tenders and gift cards are synchronized between Mosaic and PrismWeb to enable these additional tender options. Similar to credit cards, confirmation of available funds is validate during Mosaic web order processing

PrismWeb Tenders – Online cart checkout may now approve or reject Gift Card and AR tenders against the latest accounts and funds shared by Mosaic.

Web Catalog Images – If provided by Mosaic, PrismWeb will share web catalog images. If the information is not provided by Mosaic, PrismWeb will check the Web Manager database for a catalog image.

Buyback Inquiry – As part of the data sync between Mosaic and PrismWeb, active buyback prices are shared to support website buyback inquiry.

PrismWeb Front End

Tracking Links – For all stores, PrismWeb has improved order tracking logic to account for data discrepancies that previously resulted in incorrect or lost tracking information.

Textbook Search w/ Barcharts – For all stores, the textbook search was improved to perform better and return more accurate results by filtering old term data that was degrading search results.

PrismWeb item search – For Mosaic stores, an error that caused an exception error for some search results containing product images was corrected.

PrismWeb Manager

Some changes to PrismWeb manager are managed by PrismRBS staff as part of PrismWeb configuration. While some updates in this section may not be exposed to end users, these release notes will help identify the availability of expected behavior.

Shipping Codes –Web Manager loads shipping codes even if name or description is empty to allow someone to update the information. In previous versions, such shipping codes caused a server error.

(Mosaic Only) Mosaic configuration - To ensure correct data formats and performance expectations these changes were made to support Mosaic,

· The PrismWeb Data Interchange (DI) may be configured as Mosaic to differentiate behavior from PrismCore.

· If DI is set to Mosaic, auditing is updated to include time stamps that capture successful data between Mosaic and PrismWeb.

· If DI is set to Mosaic, auditing is updated to include error alerts if data interchange between Mosaic and PrismWeb fails.