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Getting Started with Drupal Commerce

By : Richard Jones
Book Image

Getting Started with Drupal Commerce

By: Richard Jones

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Getting Started with Drupal Commerce
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Enabling Drupal Commerce modules


Now that you have a working Drupal installation, we can install the Drupal Commerce modules and dependencies.

Contributed modules should be placed in the sites/all/modules/contrib folder.

Download the following modules and unzip them into the sites/all/modules/contrib folder:

Your folder should now look like the following screenshot:

Next, go to the modules screen available at http://drupalcommerce.localhost:8082/#overlay=admin/modules link.

Drupal Commerce and its dependencies are made up of a large number of modules.

Rather than enable them all right now, we will enable them gradually in the forthcoming chapters, so as to help introduce the functionality provided by each one in turn.

To start with, enable the following module...