Re: Proposal: quantities and shipment details for Order

Hi Kevin,

The schema.org/ParcelDelivery type has much of what you are looking for to
describe shipping details. However, there is no property from an Order to
an ParcelDelivery. (There is a property to get from a ParcelDelivery to an
order.)

Would a reverse property from Order to ParcelDelivery satisfy your needs?

- Vicki


Vicki Tardif Holland | Ontologist | vtardif@google.com



On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Kévin Dunglas <dunglas@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The new http://schema.org/Order type is great but, in my opinion, can
> be extended to be more useful and to match more existing models.
> The main drawback with this type is its support for multiple line items.
>
> * Many merchants such as Amazon, CDiscount or LaRedoute handle status
> at the order line level: one item can be "Processing" while another of
> the same order (ordered in the same time) is "In Transit". In the
> current vocable, the status is stored at the Order level, not at the
> Order item level, so it's impossible to represent case explained
> above.
> * In the current vocable, there is no notion of quantity for an order
> item. However, in almost all e-commerce platforms, a customer can
> order several times the same "Offer". (For instance, you can buy 3
> t-shirts with SKU ABCDE).
>
> To fix this drawback, I propose to create a new type called OrderItem
> with the following properties:
> * quantity (Number): the number of acceptedOffer ordered
> * acceptedOffer (Offer): the accepted offer
> * orderItemStatus (OrderStatus): the order item status
> * orderItemNumber (Text): the order item number
>
> And to add a property orderItem to Order.
>
> Another thing that will be great to include in this vocable is shipment
> details.
>
> I propose to also add those properties to the new OrderItem type:
> * carrier (Carrier): the carrier
> * trackingNumber (Text): the tracking number
> * trackingUrl (URL): the tracking URL
> * shipmentDate (Date): the date of expedition
>
> And an extendable enumeration of carriers (Carrier) with values Like
> UPSCarrier, TNTCarrier...
>
> What do you think of that?
> --
> Kévin Dunglas
>
> http://dunglas.fr
>
>
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