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PRISM Commerce

Provenance class: PRISM — PRISM-defined term
Terminology layer: Consumer / conceptual
Frozen terminology: DEC-002
Introduced in version: 1.0

Status: Normative
Version: 1.0
Canonical source: Canonical Specification v1.1 §2, §4, §10.2
License: CC BY 4.0; Report a correction

Normative definition

The model defined in Section 4.

— Canonical Specification v1.1, §10.2

From the canonical source

It describes a retail model in which a platform presents products to end customers without pre-purchasing the displayed inventory; after a customer order is paid, the platform sources and purchases the relevant product from an external inventory source and manages the downstream operational flow to the customer.
— Canonical Specification v1.1, §4

PRISM Commerce is a business-model classification and conceptual identity. Whether a specific implementation qualifies depends on its actual customer relationship, transaction structure, sourcing flow, and allocation of operational responsibilities—not merely on use of the name.
— Canonical Specification v1.1, §2

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Permanent URL: https://prismcommerce.org/en/glossary/prism-commerce/

Cite

“PRISM Commerce.” PRISM Commerce Glossary, Version 1.0. https://prismcommerce.org/en/glossary/prism-commerce/. Source: PRISM Commerce — Canonical Specification, Version 1.1, SPEC §2, §4, §10.2, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22978762.

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