Getting Started with Drupal Commerce is an introductory guide to the Commerce suite of modules for Drupal 7. You will be guided through the basic concepts needed to understand how the Commerce framework is designed, by reference to a real life case study site. At the end of the book, you will be prepared to set up your own store and understand the potential of Drupal Commerce as a framework.
Chapter 1, Introducing Key Concepts, takes you through the basic terminology used in Drupal Commerce and how the key components work together.
Chapter 2, Installing Drupal Commerce, explains how to add Drupal Commerce to a working Drupal 7 installation.
Chapter 3, Planning Your Store, deals with checklists and preparation for your e-commerce store, ensuring you have considered the business requirements before you start using the software.
Chapter 4, Products, shows you how to set up your product catalogue and display pages.
Chapter 5, Shopping Cart, shows you how to give the customer the ability to select products from your store for purchase.
Chapter 6, Checkout, explains how to take the customer through the checkout process for payment and confirmation.
Chapter 7, Shipping, explains how to add the ability for the customer to select a shipping address and method for their order.
Chapter 8, Tax, shows you how to define and configure sales tax and VAT for your store.
Chapter 9, Managing Orders, introduces backoffice screens to allow you to process orders as they come in.
Chapter 10, Discounts and Coupons, shows you how to set up some rules based on discounts for your products.
Chapter 11, Extending Commerce, is not present in the book but is available as a free download from the following link: http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/0230OS_11_Extending Commerce.pdf.
All you need is a working installation of Drupal 7. We recommend using a local development environment, such as Acquia Dev Desktop available at https://www.acquia.com/downloads.
Drupal Commerce works in any modern browser. You will not need to edit any PHP code to complete the chapters in this book.
You do not need any previous experience of Drupal 7 in order to complete the chapters of this book, but a working knowledge of Drupal will be useful.
The book is intended for e-commerce store owners and developers who are looking to set up an e-commerce experience.
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