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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

Entering product data


All of our product structures are ready to go, so we can set up some products.

Tip

If you have lots of products in your store, you may want to look into the mass import option. This is beyond the scope of this book, but start by looking into the Feeds module on Drupal.org.

Adding taxonomy terms

Before we start adding products, we need to go into the taxonomy and create the catalog sections and brands we set up earlier.

In our coffee wholesale scenario, we have the following terms with which we want to be able to classify our Products:

  • Fairtrade Coffee

    • Coffee Options

    • Coffee Beans

    • Ground Coffee

    • Instant Coffee

  • Disposables

  • Equipment

  • Fairtrade and Organic Teas

  • Gifts

  • Other Fair trade Products

  • Sundries

Note that there is a hierarchy in the Fairtrade section. The following are the steps to add taxonomy terms:

  1. From the toolbar, navigate to Structure | Taxonomy.

  2. Then click on add terms next to the Catalog vocabulary.

  3. You can then add the appropriate sections (terms) for your store.

  4. Add each term...