Getting Started with Drupal Commerce

✍ Scribed by Richard Jones

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 152
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Copyright
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Table of Contents
Preface
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
Installing Drupal Commerce
System requirements
Downloading Acquia Dev Desktop
Setting up a new Drupal site
Setting your memory limit
Enabling Drupal Commerce modules
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
Shopping Cart
The Shopping cart page
Format
Fields
Filter criteria
Sort criteria
Footer
Advanced
Customizing the Cart page
The Cart block
Summary
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
Summary
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
Different billing and shipping addresses
Order tracking
Advanced order tracking
Summary
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
Summary
Managing Orders
Configuring the back office
Default order states and status codes
Simple convention for the use of status codes
Viewing payment transactions
Summary
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
Summary
Index