Drupal commerce

An ecommerce framework

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Who am I

• Jakob Torp - @googletorp

• Drupal developer ~ 3 years.

• Early adopter - First live site launched 31/12/2010

• Maintainer of Commerce shipping

• 3 sites created with Drupal commerce

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Nuts and bolts

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Core commerce entities

• Product

• Line items (reference to product)

• Order (reference to line items)

• Custom profiles

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Product

• Store product data

• One product per SKU - variant.

• No front-end exposure.

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Line items

• Used as wrapper in orders - quantity, unit price, total

• Important for product pricing system

• Fields can be exposed on product’s add to cart form

• Create custom line item types/bundles with hook_commerce_line_item_type_info

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Creating a line item

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How can entities be used?

• Sell something that’s not a product.

• You don’t want a traditional checkout.

• You tell me!

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Create an order

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Core framework features

• Product reference field.

• Price system - price field

• Clever tax handling - VAT and sales tax

• Views and rules integration

• Entity API integration

• Quickly growing community

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Product reference field

• Create front-end product displays

• Display products or get add to cart form. Create form for line item fields.

• Create your own formatter or overwrite the display.

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Price system

• Defined as a field for maximum flexibility.

• Amount, currency code and data

• Record price alterations

• Custom price components

• Support for currency conversion.

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Taxes

• Uses rules to apply.

• Custom line items can integrate by creating and invoking a rules action.

• Price component for each tax type.

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Rules and views

• Rules events for almost anything (hooks)

• Commerce specific actions and events.

• Area handlers to make your life easy

• Custom handlers for a lot of things

• Ability to create a cart form view.

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Entity API

• entity_metadata_wrapper is your friend, but use with care.

• Make fields act as entity properties.

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Community

• Shipping

• Stock

• Coupons

• File products

• Migration from Übercart

• 41 non payment modules

Usage statistics

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Drupal rooms

• Online booking with Drupal Commerce

• Conditional price alterations

• Missing price component integration

• http://www.drupalrooms.com

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Case studyPrint company

• Drupal 6 site with webform calculation => Drupal 7 + integration with Drupal Commerce.

• Upgrade custom webform module.

• Custom line item with reference to webform submissions.

• Allow users to create orders.

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Case studyPrint company

• Drupal 6 site with webform calculation => Drupal 7 + integration with Drupal Commerce.

• Upgrade custom webform module.

• Custom line item with reference to webform submissions.

• Products vs calculations

• Allow users to create orders.

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Webform page

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Order / line item form

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Backend

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The code

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Questions?

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