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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

Chapter 8. Tax

Depending on the type of store, trading location, and volume of sales, you may need to set up sales tax or Value Added Tax rules for your store.

Value added Tax (VAT) is standard in most of the European Union.

The price displayed to the customer must be the final selling price including the VAT.

In other parts of the world, including the USA, sales tax is added at the checkout. This means that prices are displayed throughout the site without tax, and the tax amount is calculated and added to the total during the checkout process.

Drupal Commerce handles both of these scenarios by declaring two tax types, which handle each type of scenario.