Getting Started With Drupal Commerce [Paperback]

Learn everything you need to know in order to get your first Drupal Commerce website set up and trading

Overview

• Understand the key concepts of Drupal Commerce, its philosophy, and how it fits in the Drupal Ecosystem
• Learn the essentials of planning your store to save time and frustration
• Set up and configure your store including the catalogue, taxes, discounts, coupons, and shipping
• Configure your cart and checkout process and integrate them with a payment gateway
• Learn with the help of a step-by-step guide to creating a new e-store using a real life example

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.

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 Comml��