Getting started with Drupal Commerce : learn everything you need to know in order to get your first Drupal Commerce website set up and trading / Richard Jones ; foreword by Robert Douglass, Director of Product Strategy, Commerce Guys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Richard (Technical director at Inviqa)

Series:

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drupal (Computer file).

Electronic commerce.

Web sites--Design.

Web sites.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (152 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.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.

Contents:

Intro

Getting Started with Drupal Commerce

Table of Contents

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more

Why Subscribe?

Free Access for Packt account holders

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Introducing Key Concepts

An introduction to Drupal Commerce

Products that can be sold

Key terminology

The Product module

The Order module (commerce_order)

The Line item module (commerce_line_item)

The Customer profile module (commerce_profile)

The Payment transaction module (commerce_payment_transaction)

Prerequisites and dependencies

The Views module

The Rules module

The Entity module

The Address Field module

The Chaos Tools module

The Token module

The Pathauto module

Customizing and extending

Summary

2. Installing Drupal Commerce

System requirements

Downloading Acquia Dev Desktop

Setting up a new Drupal site

Setting your memory limit

Enabling Drupal Commerce modules

3. Planning Your Store

Defining the catalogue

Base product definition

Physical products

Digital downloads

Tickets

Content access and subscriptions

Customizing products

Classifying products

Pricing

Currency

Variable pricing

Customers

Taxes

Payments

Shipping

Stock

Legal compliance

Customer communication

Back office

User experience

The source of product data

4. Products

Setting up the store currency

Planning our products

Product entities and product displays

Variations on a theme.

From a browsing perspective

From a buying perspective

Managing the product entity or product display marriages

Terminology changes

Ensuring unique product titles

Defining a new product variation type

Adding an Image field

Adding a Pack size (Taxonomy) field

Pack size as variation picker

Adding a physical weight field

Defining the product (display) node

Variation management

Catalog structure

Entering product data

Adding taxonomy terms

Adding products

Product (display)

Product variations

Product catalog

Menu settings

URL path settings

Revision information

Authoring information

Publishing options

Displaying the product

Refining the layout

Adding to cart field behavior

5. Shopping Cart

The Shopping cart page

Format

Fields

Filter criteria

Sort criteria

Footer

Advanced

Customizing the Cart page

The Cart block

6. Checkout

Checkout pages

Checkout panes

Pane settings

Account information

Billing information

Completion message

Checkout rules

How a rule works

Other default rules

Assigning an anonymous order to a pre-existing user

Creating a new account for an anonymous order

Sending an order notification e-mail

Payment gateways

Selecting a payment gateway

Types of payment gateway integration

Offsite redirection

Inline

Direct

Setting up PayPal

The customers' view

Customer view of the Checkout page

Customer view of the Review order and Payment page

Customer view of Order complete

7. Shipping

Definition of terms

Shipping method

Shipping service

Setting up our Flat Rate shipping services

The output shown to the customer

Shipping address

Calculating shipping rates via AJAX.

Presenting different shipping services based on the order conditions

Free shipping when you spend a certain amount

International shipping exempt from free shipping

Checking the value of the order value is above a certain threshold

Different billing and shipping addresses

Order tracking

Advanced order tracking

8. Tax

Tax types and tax rates

Commerce Tax modules

Setting up standard VAT

VAT applied

Determining which taxes apply

Basic tax handling

Advanced tax handling

Handling prices

Methods of determining applicable tax

Adding a VAT code taxonomy

Conditional tax rules

Checking for the presence of a commerce product field

Checking for the presence of a tax code field

Checking for the value of a tax code field

Repeating for zero rated tax

Testing VAT conditions

9. Managing Orders

Configuring the back office

Default order states and status codes

Simple convention for the use of status codes

Viewing payment transactions

10. Discounts and Coupons

Site-wide discounts

Extra price discount format

Limiting the discounts to a date range

Creating your rule

Testing your rule

Coupons

Fixed discount on your order

Adding an expiry date to a coupon

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 8, 2013).

ISBN:

9781783280247

1783280247

OCLC:

861537030