By Airludy on

I am very new to Drupal. I have just installed Drupal 7 a couple weeks ago and have been learning my way around it and doing some tutorials. Things are starting to make sense for me, but I know I have a long way to go.
I have a opportunity to build a simple e-commerce website selling about 10 products. I would like to build this with Drupal 7. I am looking for some guidance with using Ubercart. I am a bit confused about how to install it with Drupal 7. Can someone give me some direction on where I can find some documentation on this? It seems the Ubercart documentation only talks about older versions of Drupal. It seems like I need to install a bunch of Modules. Is this the case if I am using Ubercart with Drupal 7.
Also, will Ubercart install with any theme? I am probably going to make my own theme or use the Zen theme. Thanks!

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awasson commented

As I understand it Ubercart has been forked and the version for Drupal 7 us called Commerce: http://drupal.org/project/commerce

I don't have any working knowledge of how well it works with D7 but all the info is on the project page.

Andrew

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bradjmsu commented

If you are still looking to install Ubercart (instead of Commerce), there is a good 7 guide for installing Ubercart with Drupal. It can be done, but there are a couple of glitches still in the system. I'm running a couple of production sites with it, and not having any significant problems.

Brad

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svogel commented

I just tried to setup a shop to sell digital downloads (with file_download).
Most modules (rules, ...) are still in alpha (or dev) for drupal 7.
And as I tried to configure the payment, rules, ... I stopped at the third patch I have to include.

The basic install ist straightforward, just download ubercart and activate the necessary plugins. Afterwards you can configure your store, payment methods, ...

Currently I'm giving up using Drupal 7 and Ubercart for File downloads. Seems to me far too buggy and alpha.

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mattcasey commented

Agreed. I'm doing a high-end ecommerce site in Drupal 6 and a much simpler one in Drupal 7 both in Ubercart. A lot of contributed modules for Ubercart have not yet been ported, a few are waiting to decide if they should instead support the newer Commerce module. The same guys who did Ubercart 6 are working on Commerce, I don't know why Ubercart is still around, except that it's probably the most reliable of the two right now; I believe Ubercart 7.x uses mostly the same API from 6.x. In the next year, I'm looking forward to trying Drupal Commerce.

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itamair commented

I have really to set up ecommerce functionalities for my library catalogue now, already built in Drupal 7.
I went through Drupal Commerce since january 2011 till now, assessing it, trying it, reading all the most recents forum posts ...
No way for me. It still seems a gym for very skilled developers.
May be too much sophisticate for me, although I can play with php code, and light modules development.
It is too complicate and un-straight to set up ...
For me, Ubercart still remains the only reasonable way to achieve an easy and (quite) trustable ecommerce with Drupal 7.
And it seems absolutely alive, with frequent new last versions releases, and thirdy part modules porting to D7 ...
And Ubercart so far will be my choice, still keeping an eye to its "competitor" (and not "substitute") Drupal Commerce ...

Italo Mairo
www.italomairo.com
itamair@me.com

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joecanti commented

I agree - I've been trying out Drupal commerce, and after initially being excited I have decided to return to Ubercart for the time being. There are many nice features in commerce, and the Views integration is top, but there are 2 things which I couldn't live with:

- Firstly, the options/attributes system seems a lot more intuitive in Ubercart. Here options/attributes are created independently and then attached to the product, where as in Commerce it seems like a new product is needed for every option. That means if I have a t-shirt for sale in 4 sizes with 5 colours requires 20 products adding?? I'm sure this cannot be the case, but I could't find any other way.

- Secondly, the product displays I'm sure have a purpose, but for me they add heaps of complexity for the sake of solving a small problem. I don't want to explain to my users that they must enter 2 products - and I don't really want to set up rules to add/update/delete product displays - seems a bit counter produtive to be running double of everything. Why not just have 1 product. If you don't want it shown, unpublish it.

So I'm sure that these 2 issues will affect many site owners, and hopefully as commerce develops there will be alternatives - because the rest seems solid, and most of it I like very much.

Sticking with Ubercart for now :-)

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damic commented

I've a basic e-commerce photostock to implement. I need customers to be able to download their cart. Ubercart, commerce, drupal-commerce?

Thank you

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damic commented

I tried with commerce project, and I'm there:

I install commerce with few required contributed modules (entity, rules...). After enabaling plenty of modules, I was able to create a product. I used view to create the store page which is nice.

Then I needed to install commerce file (beta3) to make downloadable products.

After few hours of configuration of licences, rules, commerce file... I have something that work like that:

- Unregistered user add item to the cart
- he access the cart and check out with an example payment method
- he receives 2 emails one for the order, the other is user registration
- he clicks the file tab and can download the item. The admin have to manually confirm the order from pending to confirmed.

It seems to work globally. I guess it's all about creating a rules, actions and e-mail templates to get something usable for a high-end user.

I appreciate any help if you tried to do the same stuff. thx.