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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

Different billing and shipping addresses


Now that you have enabled the shipping modules, you will see two customer profiles during the checkout to collect the billing and shipping addresses, respectively. Often, these addresses will be the same and customers find it very frustrating to have to enter the same details twice. To improve your checkout process, go back to the checkout settings page and perform the following set of instructions:

  1. Navigate to Store | Configuration | Checkout Settings.

  2. Click on configure next to the Billing information pane in the Checkout group.

  3. Tick the Enable profile copying on this checkout pane checkbox leaving the rest of the default values set, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Now, when the customer goes to the checkout they will see as screen as shown in the following screenshot:

If they deselect the checkbox, they can fill in an alternative address. You can also do this the other way round, so that the customer fills in the billing address, and the shipping...