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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

Setting up our Flat Rate shipping services


For our store, we will be setting up the following shipping rules:

  • Standard delivery (3-5 days): £4.50

  • Express delivery (next day): £9.00

Click on Add a flat rate service, as shown in the following screenshot:

Next, add the first of your options—Standard delivery at a rate of £4.50 as shown in the following screenshot:

Then the second option can be added as follows:

Title

Express delivery

Display Title

Express delivery (via Royal Mail)

Description

Express delivery (next day): £9.00

Base Rate

9.00

When you have set both of these up, the screen should look like the following screenshot:

The output shown to the customer

Now that we have set up the checkout panes, we need to consider how this will look from the customer's perspective.

Shipping address

The Shipping module adds an extra customer profile type; a shipping profile which is used to collect the customer's delivery address during checkout.

Thus, when proceeding on from the Cart...