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Getting Started with Drupal Commerce

By : Richard Jones
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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

Catalog structure


We now have our basic product definition ready. Next, we must define some structure for the catalog so that customers can find our products easily.

From the toolbar, navigate to Structure | Taxonomy. Considering our products, we want the customer to be able to browse the website like a catalog, so it makes sense to create a catalog taxonomy with broad sections for each of the types of product we offer.

We may also want to show the customer all of the products by their favorite brand, so we will add a Brand taxonomy to start with as well. Click on Add vocabulary. Create a vocabulary for Catalog and another for Brand.

Having set up these two vocabularies, the next step is to attach them to the product display node, the Foodstuff content type, so that once we have created one or more actual instances of product display nodes, we can classify them.

Next, go back to the Manage fields page of the Foodstuff product display. Navigate to Structure | Content Types | Foodstuff | manage...