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Understand the key concepts of Drupal Commerce, its philosophy, and how it fits in the Drupal Ecosystem

Learn the essentials of planning your store to save time and frustration

Set up and configure your store including the catalogue, taxes, discounts, coupons, and shipping

Configure your cart and checkout process and integrate them with a payment gateway

Learn with the help of a step-by-step guide to creating a new e-store using a real life example

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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.

What you will learn

Learn the fundamental concepts of Drupal Commerce

Install Drupal and Drupal Commerce in a local development environment

Plan an e-shop for building in Drupal Commerce

Install and configure Drupal Commerce

Set up a product catalogue and learn the difference between product displays and variations

Configure VAT and sales tax

Set up the checkout process

Create price variations and special offers for products and customers

Manage the order process in Commerce Backoffice

Extend Commerce with more contributed modules

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AJH Feb 08, 2017

A decent guide for those that like to kill trees...

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Phil Glatz Nov 21, 2013

I've been a Drupal developer for seven years, and have used Ubercart to create a number of ecommerce sites. About the time Drupal 7 was introduced, Ubercart became less maintained, as the Commerce Guys were shifting their efforts to Drupal Commerce. It is a very good product, but the shift to it was not as easy as I had thought it would be. I wish I had this book when I was first getting started with Commerce, as it explains many of the new concepts very thoroughly. I've become a big fan of Packt books for their clarity and useful knowledge, and the way they are edited for accuracy.This book starts by explaining the basic structure of Commerce, and a list of companion modules that allow extending its features. The most useful lesson was the stress put on good up-front planning of a commerce site. By carefully considering the features and options required, you will save a lot of time and grief when building out your site if you think out a correct structure before diving in.One area of confusion to new Commerce user is the difference between product entities and displays. This book explains the concept well, and suggests some helper modules to make creating a product catalog much easier.The backbone of Commerce is using Rules, which allow a great deal of customization of the ordering, checkout, and payment processes. This is explained with some good examples. Payment and shipping choices are also explained quite clearly. There are lots of small pieces that fit together to create the final store, and I found the overview this book gives helpful in understanding their relationships.Finally, there is a discussion of tax options, discounting, and order management. By the time you complete this book, you will have a very clear understanding of the basics of creating an online store. One of the things I liked about this book is that it has good examples of different strategies and presents them in a clear and readable way, but doesn't dumb them down. There is enough explanation for the first time user, and some excellent advice even for the most seasoned of developers. It helps to have some basic experience with Drupal, but I think in combination with the Kickstart distribution, most developers would have little trouble creating a successful store by following the good advice presented here.I would recommend this book for anyone wishing to come up to speed with Drupal Commerce, especially since the author stresses good planning and best practices in a way that makes them easy to understand.

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Klemens Heinen May 17, 2015

Von Kapitel zu Kapitel vervollständigt sich ein kleiner Shop und der Workflow wird klar. Es kommen nach und nach immer mehr Module hinzu, die zb für Administration, Versand, Steuer, "Coupons" zuständig sind. Auf Abos und Datei-"Verkauf" wird nur hingewiesen - die im Buch angegebene Infoseite auf drupal.org ist aber ausreichend. Viel mehr enthalten die 150 Seiten nicht.Informationen für den deutschen Markt (was genau wo zu stehen hat) sind genauso wenig vorhanden, wie ein Blick auf die Datenstruktur "hinter den Kulissen". Oder eine Übersicht über spezielle Formatter, die zB in Views nutzbar sind. Ich hätte gern auch mehr Beispiele mit anderen Produkttypen gehabt.Commerce ist sehr komplex und das Buch hebt einen vom Unwissenden auf das Niveau eine Laien - dafür gibts 4 Sterne.

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Gianluca Rossi Nov 16, 2013

libro interessante di cookbook per drupal commerce, argomenti affrontati in maniera abbastanza esauriente, nulla di troppo tecnico, mancano alcune cose importanti come il sistema di invoice, ma tra i libri di Drupal Commerce il più interessante letto fino ad oggi.

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Sam Katz Jan 11, 2014

I am working on a Drupal Commerce site. The instructions for installing were great. It told me to install Commerce Backoffice, which changes the terminology by their own admission. No other tutorial assumes you are using it, and therefore you can use nothing else except for the book. For someone that is familiar with Drupal, this is off-putting. I recommend perusing drupalcommerce.org and lynda.com instead.

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Getting Started with Drupal Commerce: Learn everything you need to know in order to get your first Drupal Commerce website set up and trading

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