What are most valuable and required features in the B2B Web shop checkout?

Hi,
I am product manager for SAP Web Channel. I would like to use this forum as a channel to learn more about our customer's requirements for Web shop checkout. Also, I would like to gather new ideas from our customers and partners for a highly usable and functional Web shop checkout.
What do you think are very valuable or even u201Cmust haveu201D features in a B2B scenario Web shop checkout? You can let me know checkout features that are especially relevant for your own business process. In this respect, it would be interesting to know what B2B checkout features you developed in your E-Commerce project. However, I would also like to know what features, apart from your own specific process requirements, that you would judge as very important standard B2B checkout features. Think of features such as an Ajax search for shipping addresses or payment via direct debit or 3D Secure.
Let me tell you upfront what I roughly understand as "checkout". Checkout for me is a process typically triggered by a 'Checkout' button in the shopping basket. As a result, a checkout page gets called. On this page or accross different sequent pages the customer is requested to enter or select certain information such as billing and shipping address(es) and payment data. This information is required by the Web shop owner in order to fulfill the customer order.
All your ideas, feedback, and thoughts on this topic are very welcome. Please understand that providing your ideas and requirements on the checkout will not necessarily mean that SAP will develop them in the future. But every idea will broaden my mind on what are the market requirements regarding this topic.
I hope that I can start an interesting discussion for all of you here in the forum. I will provide points for interesting ideas, thoughts and requirements.
Greetings
Torsten Kliesch

Hi Sateesh,
thanks for your feedback. I have granted you some points for it first of all. Let me ask 1-2 two questions regarding your feedback though:
Regarding the pricing I understand your point in a way that it should be possible to display more price details in the basket or at least in the order overview of the checkout (before submitting the basket as a sales order). Meaning it should be possible to more easily switch on the display of price details like subtotal, customer discount in the basket and order overview. Is my understanding correct?
Greetings
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