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Drupal E-commerce with Ubercart 2.x

By : George Papadongonas, Yiannis Doxaras
Book Image

Drupal E-commerce with Ubercart 2.x

By: George Papadongonas, Yiannis Doxaras

Overview of this book

<p>Ubercart is an exciting open source e-commerce package that fully integrates your online store with Drupal. Ubercart leverages the advantages of Drupal's major core and contributed systems, providing your users with shopping cart functionality that integrates with other parts of your company or community web site. It can be used to sell shippable goods, downloadable products, recurring memberships, and event tickets, and to enable complex interactions with Drupal through various add-on contributions.<br /><br />This book guides you through the process of creating, administrating and marketing an online store, providing information and tips for raising your sales and your customer support. It will also show you how to maintain and add advanced capabilities to your company's eShop.<br /><br />If you are a merchant wanting to invest your precious time to update the online presence of your company, or a web site designer wanting to expand your business and offer innovative solutions to your clients, this book has been written for you. You don't need any programming experience to install and customize your electronic store. The procedure is well structured and easy and all we ask you to do is to follow some simple steps in order to complete some specific tasks in each chapter. The book will guide you through the installation and configuration of Drupal and Ubercart. From there it will cover specific areas like managing orders, customizing the frontend and user interface. At the end it covers the advanced topics of internet marketing techniques and Search Engine Optimization.<br /><br />When you reach the end of the book, you'll have a working store and you'll have obtained all the required knowledge to customize it to your specific needs.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Drupal e-commerce with Ubercart 2.x
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

The Hotel Booking block


Now that you have created the room types and defined all the details, you have to enable the room booking functionality for your clients. Go to Home | Administer | Site building | Blocks, and enable the block named Hotel Booking: Search Widget. There, the visitor selects the Check-In Date, the nights of stay, the number of guests that are Adults and Children, and whether he or she wants a smoking or non-smoking room, and then clicks on Search.

During the next step, the visitor can see a list of all the available room types, with the prices for each day, the total cost, total cost per person, and the average cost per night, and can select one by clicking on Book This Room.

The client is then transferred to the shopping cart page, where he or she can see the booking details and make changes to them, or click on Checkout to continue with the payment.

In the final step, the visitor enters the billing information, payment details, and completes the order.