Integrate Your Customer's Procurement System. Acompra supports the level 1 cXML PunchOut process for integration with procurement systems like Ariba, Coupa, SciQuest, or Oracle. If your customer uses a procurement system and would like to integrate with the Acompra B2B storefront you provide to them, cXML PunchOut is the most common mechanism.
In cXML, the user starts inside the procurement system. Using cXML, the procurement system creates a shopping cart session in Acompra for the user, and then bounces the user over to the Acompra store. The user does not need to login, as the procurement system has negotiated the login via cXML. After the user checks out, the user is bounced back to the procurement system and the order is marked as an estimate request. At a later point, the procurement system will tell the Acompra store to either cancel the order or change its status from Estimate to being an actual Order.
Note that cXML Punchout is a subset of a much larger cXML standard that defines data structures and data flows.