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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

Customizing and extending


One of the most exciting aspects of working with Drupal is the fact that you can extend and customize the system to your own requirements. You can either create your own custom modules or there are hundreds of free add-on modules on the drupal.org website. So if you want to have a shipping calculation that works with your product set, or you need to get your data from a legacy database in your company, you are not limited by the initial capabilities of the software. As it is open source, you are not locked into using a proprietary vendor to make changes—you can do it yourself!

You can also find a more curated list of Drupal Commerce specific modules at drupalcommerce.org.