Hi -

I am trying to make sure I design my Commerce site correctly the first time and thus would like to offer $100 to an experienced Commerce developer to provide me with the direction to build out my own site. I will be building the site. All I request in return for the $100 is how I should set up my Commerce site.

I have a lot of Drupal experience, 10+ years building sites, Ubercart, etc., but no Commerce experience. ;0)

Thank you for your consideration. I appreciate all that has been put into Commerce.

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Project Consulting Request

We would like to request architecture consulting for a Drupal Commerce site.

We simply request the information necessary for us to know how best to build the site ourselves. We have built many Drupal 4/5/6 sites over 10+ years, including Ubercart stores, etc., but are unfamiliar with the Commerce way of doing things. We would like to do it right the first time, thus our approach to you.

We are going to sell file downloads on a Drupal Commerce store.

We have an offsite script that will take field data from our Drupal site, process it into 3+ files, then return these 3+ to the Drupal site to be sold as file downloads.

Our starting field data would include these:

=======================
+ Link Pack Title
+ Link Pack Description

+ Link 01 Title
+ Link 01 URL
+ Link 01 Shurly URL
+ Link 02 Fivestar

+ Link 02 Title
+ Link 02 URL
+ Link 02 Shurly URL
+ Link 02 Fivestar

+ Link 03 Title
+ Link 03 URL
+ Link 03 Shurly URL
+ Link 03 Fivestar

...

+ Link 88 Title
+ Link 88 URL
+ Link 88 Shurly URL
+ Link 88 Fivestar
=======================

Our users would enter the field data into Drupal. The field data will not be sold or made public. Presumably, we would start with the Commerce Downloads install profile and work from there to build the field data into a Drupal type.

Our specific questions include:

+ What is the best way to organize the field data and corresponding file download data?

. Do we use a product for all the field data?
. Do we reserve 3+ extra fields in the same Link Pack for the file downloads we intend to sell?
. Do we create separate products for the 3+ file downloads to sell?

+ If file downloads for sale are separate products than the field data, how do we relate them?
. FileField Sources?

+ How do we best export the field data to be made usable by our offsite script?
. Node Export?

+ How do we best import the file downloads for sale back into Drupal from our script?
. Migrate?
. Simple user/pass form submission?

Thank you kindly again for all you have contributed to Drupal and the community.

Comments

rszrama’s picture

rszrama commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

I'm going to guess this is past due now. I hope you found your answers. The issue queue is probably the worst place for requests like these, though, as its primary use is that of a bug tracker. Developers here don't generally have the time or need to respond to requests like these. The forums at DrupalCommerce.org or drupal.org are more likely to yield you results in the future.