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    Getting Started with Drupal Commerce
    Getting Started with Drupal Commerce
    Getting Started with Drupal Commerce
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    Getting Started with Drupal Commerce

    By Richard Jones

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    A simple yet concise step-by-step tutorial that starts from scratch and builds up your knowledge with focused examples that will enable you to set up and run an e-commerce website.This book is for beginners and will take you through the installation and configuration of Drupal Commerce from scratch, but some familiarity with Drupal 7 will be an advantage. All examples are based on development on a local computer – you do not need a hosted Drupal environment.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9781783280247
    Getting Started with Drupal Commerce
    Author

    Richard Jones

    Richard Jones has more than fifteen years of experience in the creative arts and worked in a children's library for over a decade. Combining his two passions, he began illustrating children's books in 2016. Winter Dance is his first picture book in the US. He lives in Devon, England. www.paintedmouse.com

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      Getting Started with Drupal Commerce - Richard Jones

      Table of Contents

      Getting Started with Drupal Commerce

      Credits

      Foreword

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

      Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more

      Why Subscribe?

      Free Access for Packt account holders

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Introducing Key Concepts

      An introduction to Drupal Commerce

      Products that can be sold

      Key terminology

      The Product module

      The Order module (commerce_order)

      The Line item module (commerce_line_item)

      The Customer profile module (commerce_profile)

      The Payment transaction module (commerce_payment_transaction)

      Prerequisites and dependencies

      The Views module

      The Rules module

      The Entity module

      The Address Field module

      The Chaos Tools module

      The Token module

      The Pathauto module

      Customizing and extending

      Summary

      2. Installing Drupal Commerce

      System requirements

      Downloading Acquia Dev Desktop

      Setting up a new Drupal site

      Setting your memory limit

      Enabling Drupal Commerce modules

      Summary

      3. Planning Your Store

      Defining the catalogue

      Base product definition

      Physical products

      Digital downloads

      Tickets

      Content access and subscriptions

      Customizing products

      Classifying products

      Pricing

      Currency

      Variable pricing

      Customers

      Taxes

      Payments

      Shipping

      Stock

      Legal compliance

      Customer communication

      Back office

      User experience

      The source of product data

      Summary

      4. Products

      Setting up the store currency

      Planning our products

      Product entities and product displays

      Variations on a theme

      From a browsing perspective

      From a buying perspective

      Managing the product entity or product display marriages

      Terminology changes

      Ensuring unique product titles

      Defining a new product variation type

      Adding an Image field

      Adding a Pack size (Taxonomy) field

      Pack size as variation picker

      Adding a physical weight field

      Defining the product (display) node

      Variation management

      Catalog structure

      Entering product data

      Adding taxonomy terms

      Adding products

      Product (display)

      Product variations

      Product catalog

      Menu settings

      URL path settings

      Revision information

      Authoring information

      Publishing options

      Displaying the product

      Refining the layout

      Adding to cart field behavior

      Summary

      5. Shopping Cart

      The Shopping cart page

      Format

      Fields

      Filter criteria

      Sort criteria

      Footer

      Advanced

      Customizing the Cart page

      The Cart block

      Summary

      6. Checkout

      Checkout pages

      Checkout panes

      Pane settings

      Account information

      Billing information

      Completion message

      Checkout rules

      How a rule works

      Other default rules

      Assigning an anonymous order to a pre-existing user

      Creating a new account for an anonymous order

      Sending an order notification e-mail

      Payment gateways

      Selecting a payment gateway

      Types of payment gateway integration

      Offsite redirection

      Inline

      Direct

      Setting up PayPal

      The customers' view

      Customer view of the Checkout page

      Customer view of the Review order and Payment page

      Customer view of Order complete

      Summary

      7. Shipping

      Definition of terms

      Shipping method

      Shipping service

      Setting up our Flat Rate shipping services

      The output shown to the customer

      Shipping address

      Calculating shipping rates via AJAX

      Presenting different shipping services based on the order conditions

      Free shipping when you spend a certain amount

      International shipping exempt from free shipping

      Checking the value of the order value is above a certain threshold

      Different billing and shipping addresses

      Order tracking

      Advanced order tracking

      Summary

      8. Tax

      Tax types and tax rates

      Commerce Tax modules

      Setting up standard VAT

      VAT applied

      Determining which taxes apply

      Basic tax handling

      Advanced tax handling

      Handling prices

      Methods of determining applicable tax

      Adding a VAT code taxonomy

      Conditional tax rules

      Checking for the presence of a commerce product field

      Checking for the presence of a tax code field

      Checking for the value of a tax code field

      Repeating for zero rated tax

      Testing VAT conditions

      Summary

      9. Managing Orders

      Configuring the back office

      Default order states and status codes

      Simple convention for the use of status codes

      Viewing payment transactions

      Summary

      10. Discounts and Coupons

      Site-wide discounts

      Extra price discount format

      Limiting the discounts to a date range

      Creating your rule

      Testing your rule

      Coupons

      Fixed discount on your order

      Adding an expiry date to a coupon

      Summary

      Index

      Getting Started with Drupal Commerce

      Getting Started with Drupal Commerce

      Copyright © 2013 Packt Publishing

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      Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book.

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      First published: September 2013

      Production Reference: 1170913

      Published by Packt Publishing Ltd.

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      Birmingham B3 2PB, UK.

      ISBN 978-1-78328-023-0

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      Cover Image by Myles Davidson (<myles@i-kos.com>)

      Credits

      Author

      Richard Jones

      Reviewers

      Nick Abbott

      Sil Kogelman

      Acquisition Editors

      Andrew Duckworth

      Julian Ursell

      Commissioning Editor

      Nikhil Chinnari

      Technical Editors

      Novina Kewalramani

      Anita Nayak

      Project Coordinator

      Akash Poojary

      Proofreader

      Simran Bhogal

      Indexer

      Monica Ajmera Mehta

      Production Coordinator

      Aditi Gajjar

      Cover Work

      Aditi Gajjar

      Foreword

      Drupal Commerce is the fastest growing open source solution for building modern e-commerce websites. It extends the popular and proven Drupal CMS, bringing you the best of two worlds: e-commerce and rich, socially enabled content management, all in one package.

      Powerful tools require training and skill to use properly, and that's why you need this book. The author carefully sets the stage for a multitude of practical and common e-commerce needs, including a planning template that will help you succeed in e-commerce even before you dive into the details of the software.

      Careful planning can uncover many of the issues that a new merchant may overlook, at their own risk. For example, the presentation of products using multiple currencies, sales tax versus VAT, handling of refunds, and compliance issues such as PCI DSS are all important to account for and address.

      Drupal Commerce presents a large set of new topics and requires skills that layer on top of the already powerful Drupal software. These include creating products, customizing the cart and checkout processes, configuring taxes, managing orders and shipping, and stimulating sales with discounts and coupons.

      Getting Started with Drupal Commerce strikes a nice balance between the conceptual underpinnings of Drupal Commerce and practical guidance, with ongoing examples to create an actual example store. By the end, you have the hands-on experience of actually building something with Drupal Commerce.

      Welcome to the world of Drupal Commerce. Happy reading!

      Robert Douglass

      Director of Product Strategy, Commerce Guys

      About the Author

      Richard Jones is the Technical Director of i-KOS, a UK-based digital agency, specializing in Drupal and e-commerce. He has been working with the project

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