Ubercart for all
- 1. Ubercart for All Drupal 6, Ubercart 2 Presented by Gord Christmas gord@northStudio.com Sunday, September 12, 2010
- 2. Overview • Products and Classes • Custom fields • Attributes • Hooks and coding • Taxes and Shipping • Additional modules • Triggers and Actions • Drupal Commerce • Digital downloads • Stock Sunday, September 12, 2010
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- 4. Products and Classes • Classes are divisions of products in a logical sense, like a catalog • Many operations and logic are easier with classes • Fields and theming of classes are much easier than the default product nodes Sunday, September 12, 2010
- 5. Attributes • Allow things on a product like Colours, Sizes, Optional add-ons • Make it much easier to have dynamic products, prices, SKU’s, and reduce the number of products • Avoid lots of attributes as the combinations and configuration multiply Sunday, September 12, 2010
- 6. Taxes and Shipping • Canadian Taxation done • Shipping by Flatrate, properly! Weight, UPS/FedEx/ Canada Post • Label your tax rules appropriately for ease of • Non-Shippable product? maintenance • Shipping for Province/ • Try to keep taxable/non- State/Country/ taxable products as International separate product classes • Special Item costs and • Tax reports now in UC2 how to handle them well Sunday, September 12, 2010
- 7. Triggers and Actions • Conditional Actions are • Special products that the “Triggers” of need followup Ubercart • Role assignment and • Much like rules, but expiry not... • Order/Product • ADS Charge and how I discounts (uc_discount) solved it • User Points and Ubercart Userpoints Sunday, September 12, 2010
- 8. Digital Downloads • Nifty way of handling digital assets • Allows for expiring, limited download type of products • Can have more than one file attached as a DD to a product • Can also have same DD attached to more than one product Sunday, September 12, 2010
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- 10. Stock • UC2 now has rules that • Will allow negative decrement stock stock, feature? • Incrementing not in • Works well with place, usually handled attributed products and manually, but a rule can combinations work • Contrib modules for • No built in cart extending it protection for out of stock items http://www.ubercart.org/docs/user/5181/out_stock_solutions Sunday, September 12, 2010
- 11. Custom Fields • Use node references for • Tie Event nodes to related products products for tickets, display in the Event with • Use textfields etc, in a View tandem with UC Node Checkout module • Use CCK fields with conditions to apply • Administrative fields for discounts or alter payment options stock, special ordering text • Coding limits are few Sunday, September 12, 2010
- 12. Hooks and Coding • The source http://www.ubercart.org/docs/api • hook_add_to_cart is perfect for controlling what goes in, or notifying customers about conditions or relevant information, can’t change the data here • The function uc_cart_add_item can be used to programatically add items within your module, very powerful especially when driven by a custom form • Undocumented hook_add_to_cart_data, allows you to inject any data you need to later calculate custom prices, event info or anything else custom. Essential as once the product is in the cart it is no longer referenced via node api calls. The data in the cart is in it’s own domain. Sunday, September 12, 2010
- 13. Additional Modules • UC Addresses http://drupal.org/project/uc_addresses • UC Coupons http://drupal.org/project/uc_coupon • UC Discount http://drupal.org/project/uc_discount • UC Node Checkout http://drupal.org/project/uc_node_checkout • UC Purchase Order http://drupal.org/project/uc_po • UC Conditional Payment http://drupal.org/project/uc_conditional_payment Sunday, September 12, 2010
- 14. Drupal Commerce • http://www.drupalcommerce.org • http://drupal.org/project/commerce • Totally new system written from the ground up • Uses the sexy Field API for all product attributes • Conditional Actions is no more, uses built in Rules now YAY! • Demo site http://demo.commerceguys.com/dc/ Sunday, September 12, 2010
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