Drupal Commerce Drupalhagen 2012
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This document provides an overview of the Drupal commerce ecommerce framework. It discusses the core concepts including entities like orders, line items, and products. It also covers key features like the price system, tax handling, integration with Views and Rules, and the growing community around Drupal commerce modules.
Drupal Commerce Drupalhagen 2012
- 2. Who am I • Jakob Torp - @googletorp • Drupal developer ~ 4 years. • Early adopter - First live site launched 31/12/2010 • Maintainer of Commerce shipping • 5-10 sites created with Drupal commerce
- 3. Overview • Core concepts - the foundation of DC • Key features • Commerce kickstart 2
- 5. Entities • Order (has line items & • Custom profiles profiles) • Payment transactions • Line items (has products) • Product
- 6. Order • Is used as cart and order • Used to access all other data
- 7. 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
- 8. Product • Store product data • One product per SKU - variant. • No front-end exposure.
- 10. Define a line item type
- 11. Core framework features • Price system - price field • Clever tax handling - VAT and sales tax • Views integration • Rules integration • Entity API integration • Quickly growing community
- 12. Price system • Defined as a field for maximum flexibility. • Amount, currency code and data • Price components - record price alterations • Support for currency conversion.
- 13. Taxes • Based on rules. • Easy to extend and change. • Price component used for summarized results.
- 14. Views • Easy to alter default “layouts” • Customize per field layout • Well known theming system • Area handlers to make your life easy • Most central forms created in views.
- 15. Rules • Event - condition - action • Most commerce events exposed in rules. • Custom actions predefined for you. • Also exposed as hooks.
- 16. Community • Shipping • Stock Usage statistics • Coupons • Address book • File products • Migration from Übercart • 65 payment modules • 66 non payment modules
- 17. Demo
- 18. Questions?