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As of today, PunchCommerce can be used as a transparent OCI gateway for your e-commerce platform.

  26.05.2021   ·   Reading time 2 minutes

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The new "OCI 4.0 / 5.0 PunchOut Gateway" mode enables PunchOut in your e-commerce infrastructure without having to deal with the details of the OCI protocol. Of course you can also use our functions such as the field mapping tool in OCI mode.

**How does the transparent PunchOut work?**

Your customers authenticate themselves against our platform and are automatically forwarded to your online shop after processing the OCI call. When forwarding, we give you a session ID and a customer ID that you can process as you wish.

After your customer has put together a shopping cart, you direct him back to our platform together with his cart and the session identifier. We validate the shopping cart and send it to the calling ERP system.

**How can I best connect my system?**

We provide a composer bundle for your PHP developers that abstracts the process as much as possible and makes the connection quick and easy to implement. In addition, our plugins for Shopware 5 and 6 will be expanded accordingly.

**Summary**

- PunchCommerce can now be used as a transparent gateway
- The Shopware plugins are extended by this functionality
- A free composer bundle is available for developers

If you have any questions or suggestions, just send us an email  or call us at [+49 6142 / 953 80 - 60](tel:061429538060). We appreciate your feedback!

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