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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

Modules used in Chapter 7


In Chapter 7, we move on to manage our order process and customers. We also integrate features that help us build good customer relationships, and thus, a good business reputation. To achieve that, we make use of the following modules:

CiviCRM

CiviCRM is an open source CRM application. This module synchronizes the user accounts of Drupal with the customers of CiviCRM.

Maintainer

Donald A. Lobo

UC Wish List

UC Wish List gives your customers the opportunity to create their wish lists and store them for later use.

Maintainer

Ryan Szrama

Simplenews

Simplenews is a module for the creation of newsletters. It supports multiple mailing lists and users can subscribe and unsubscribe to them easily.

Maintainers

Erik Stielstra, Rob Roy Barreca

Tweetbacks

Tweetbacks shows the posts from Twitter that refer to pages or products from your store.

Maintainer

Christopher S. Charabaruk

Twitter

Twitter allows users to display their Twitter posts in their account or to post a tweet when they create new content at your site.

Maintainers

Jeff Eaton, James Walker