As mentioned earlier, receiving an order is not just a matter of writing a row in a database. In real-world scenarios, an incoming e-commerce order triggers several business procedures. Some of them are as follows:
Notifying the warehouse set for the delivery
Notifying the sales agent to perform appropriate actions on the CRM
Notifying payment information to the financial department
We can achieve these with two opposite approaches:
Both approaches have advantages/disadvantages. They are explained in the following table: