# Order Service

Createa an order from cart.

### Key features and benefits

* Creates orders with products that have indicative prices (e.g. price is only known after an item has been weighed)
* Creates and retrieves own orders, and updates order statuses by customers (on the storefront)
* Creates, retrieves, deletes, and updates orders by tenant's employees (through the Emporix Management Dashboard or by using a third-party application)
* Displays order history
* Converts historic orders into current orders
* Creates missing addresses for customer models (can be disabled in system preferences)
* Built for high volume/throughput
* Ensures customers can always place an order
* Makes it easy for customers to reorder from their last order
* Eliminates order queues and virtual waiting queues
* Benefits from automatic/elastic scaling to cope easily with peak order volumes