e-commerce

What you will learn from this book

• Start selling on the web with Drupal Commerce
• Improve your store’s search engine friendliness
• Customise the look and feel of your store
• Streamline the way you manage your store with hints and tips for everyday management
• Calculate the correct tax on your orders
• Manage customer profiles to make both your life and your customers’ lives easier
• Create custom product types to allow files uploads, colour and size variations, and more
• Includes end-to-end T-shirt shop tutorial and blueprint

In Detail

Get to grips with Drupal Commerce, the new ecommerce framework based on the Drupal CMS , one of the most popular and powerful open source content management systems available.

"Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook" takes you through the installation, configuration, and customisation of your Drupal Commerce store. With clear, practical recipes with plenty of screenshots and tips this book will help you build attractive and profitable eCommerce sites.

This book starts by showing you how to install and configure your Drupal Commerce store. Once your shop is up and running, you’ll then learn how to customise and optimise it to make it stand out and display your products better.

Going further into customisation, you will learn to add custom product types before creating a stylish new Drupal theme for your store. Packed with tips, this book will also help guide you through common problems, as well as optimising and managing your store on a day to day basis.

"Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook" will guide you through everything you need to know to get your online store up and running and selling your products, with easy step-by-step guides and screenshots to help walk you through everything.

Approach

"Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook" is written in a helpful, practical style with numerous hands-on recipes to help you build attractive eCommerce sites.

Who this book is for

This book is primarily for store owners and web designers with little or no experience of Drupal and Drupal Commerce who want to build and customise a store in Drupal Commerce. You will have a basic knowledge of websites, but you don’t need to be familiar with Drupal or PHP. However, this book would also suit experienced Drupal and Ubercart users who want to migrate to or build a Drupal Commerce store.

What you will learn from this book

• Learn the fundamental concepts of Drupal Commerce
• Install Drupal and Drupal Commerce in a local development environment
• Plan an e-shop for building in Drupal Commerce
• Install and configure Drupal Commerce
• Set up a product catalogue and learn the difference between product displays and variations
• Configure VAT and sales tax
• Set up the checkout process
• Create price variations and special offers for products and customers
• Manage the order process in Commerce Backoffice
• Extend Commerce with more contributed modules

In Detail

Drupal Commerce is emerging as the preferred option for open source e-commerce, and it also stands up to comparison against established proprietary systems.

Getting Started with Drupal Commerce is an introductory guide to building an online store using Drupal Commerce in Drupal 7.

Getting Started with Drupal Commerce takes you step-by-step through a complete e-commerce website build, from a clean installation of Drupal to a working example store. Starting with how to set up a Drupal development environment, we then discuss the planning of an e-commerce site and the typical questions you should be asking before getting started.

Next, we walk through all of the essential setup required for most types of e-shop, including taxes, shipping, discounts and coupons, the checkout process, and backend order management. By the end of Getting Started with Drupal Commerce, you will be fully-equipped to plan and build your own store and you will understand the fundamental principles of Drupal Commerce that will enable you to progress to more complex store builds.

Approach

A simple yet concise step-by-step tutorial that starts from scratch and builds up your knowledge with focused examples that will enable you to set up and run an e-commerce website.

Who this book is for

This book is for beginners and will take you through the installation and configuration of Drupal Commerce from scratch, but some familiarity with Drupal 7 will be an advantage. All examples are based on development on a local computer – you do not need a hosted Drupal environment.