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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

The customers' view


If we now return to the frontend of the website, we can review what the customer will see during the checkout process.

Before we do this, we need to set some permission for the checkout, using the following steps:

  1. From the toolbar, click on People and then click on the PERMISSIONS tab, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. The default installation of Drupal Commerce does not enable the checkout for any role, except administrator. In most circumstances, you will want anonymous customers to be able to checkout. Set the following permissions for ANONYMOUS USER and AUTHENTICATED USER:

    Checkout | Access checkout

Customer view of the Checkout page

The Checkout page looks like the following screenshot:

Customer view of the Review order and Payment page

The Review Order and Payment page looks like the following screenshot:

Finally, after continuing you will momentarily see a message telling you that you are about to be redirected to PayPal.

Customer view of Order complete

After payment...