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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 9


In Chapter 9, we work towards enhancing our UI to present our customers with an intuitive UI. To achieve that, the following modules would be very useful:

Browsing History Recommender

Browsing History Recommender creates recommendations based on browsing history.

Maintainer

Daniel Zhou

Relevant Content

Relevant Content creates blocks showing relevant content, based on the taxonomy of the current product.

Maintainer

Nicholas Tompson

Ubercart Products Recommender

Ubercart Products Recommender creates a block for product recommendations, based on the order history of your store.

Maintainer

Daniel Zhou

Panels

Panels is a layout builder for Drupal, allowing a site administrator to create customized layouts for multiple uses.

Maintainers

Earl Miles, Sam Boyer, Daniel F. Kudwien, Bernd Oliver Sünderhauf

Views Slideshow

Views Slideshow cooperates with Views to create custom slideshows for your products.

Maintainers

Adam Moore, Fearls Groove, Aaron Winborn

Ubercart Views

Ubercart Views allows you to create specialized views for Ubercart, in order to display user or order data.

Maintainer

Mads Peter Henderson

Ubercart Ajax cart

The Ajax cart gives your customers the ability to add products to the cart instantly, without refreshing the page.

Maintainers

Erik Seifert, Joe Chellman

Ubercart Terms Of Service

Ubercart Terms of Service is a simple module that creates text with terms of service and a checkbox, which needs to be checked before submitting the order.

Maintainer

Pedro Cambra

Ubercart Discounts (Alternative)

The Ubercart Discounts module allows you to create discounts for your store.

Maintainers

Ezra Barnett Gildesgame, Ryan Groe

Ubercart Discount Coupons

The Ubercart Discount Coupons module allows you to create coupon codes to provide discounts to your customers.

Maintainers

Dave Long, Blake Lucchesi

UC Multiprice

If you sell your products in many different countries, this module allows you to sell them at different prices for each country.

Maintainer

Sjoerd Arendsen