Drupal Tools and Resources for eCommerce Website Development
February 13, 2012. Written by Stefan Nistor
E-commerce rate is growing year over year and there’s nothing you can’t buy online.
Online stores have already became one of the main sales channels. If you want to get your online store or you’re thinking developing one yourself, we would like to provide you a bunch of great Drupal tools and resources for e-commerce website development to help you get started. Enjoy!
Articles & Tutorials
8 Steps to Creating a Drupal E-Commerce Website
“Walks through the process of getting your e-commerce store up and running so you can acquire customers immediately….”
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Turn Drupal into an e-commerce store using Ubercart
“Drupal, a powerful, robust content management system that’s gaining traction in the CMS market. But it ‘s not only the core framework which offers such as an attractive platform to web designers and developers: It’s also the growing abundance of e-commerce modules and shopping cart functionality that allows a small business to scale quickly over busy shopping periods….”
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Drupal e-Commerce Website Design
“Now, there are many different types of Drupal software that receive high marks. However, it is the Drupal e-commerce applications that are among its crowning glory. This is because Drupal e-commerce applications provide a non-problematic method for companies and individuals to enter in or expand online business…”
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Create A High-Powered, Easy To Use And Secure e-Commerce Site With Drupal And Ubercart
“Drupal can be extended via “plug-ins” or “add ons” named modules. Of all the e-commerce or shopping cart modules available, we’ve found Ubercart to be by far the most stable, reliable, feature packed and easy to use…”
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Top 5 Reasons Why Drupal Websites are Highly SEO Friendly
“The important aspect a person should consider is that his website is capable of adopting the changes that are made to it. In the present world nothing is available free of cost, if you are familiar with the content management system like Drupal, you can make the changes in your website without hiring any technical staff and without paying any cost…”
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Drupal e-Commerce : Ubercart And Paypal
“Until recently, it took a developer or two to get them all working smoothly together, while allowing you to accept customers’ credit cards on your website, in a secure fashion, while still giving them a seamless shopping experience. The difficulty in setting this kind of E-Commerce solution up has just been greatly reduced via Drupal’s E-Commerce setup featuring Ubercart and Paypal…”
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e-Commerce Web Design: Six Hot Trends
“Head-turning ecommerce web design is pivotal for the success of your online store as attention-grabbing pages publicise your brand. Just like any other creative sphere, web design is a fickle industry that constantly undergoes changes…”
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Tools & Modules
Drupal Commerce
Drupal Commerce is an open source e-commerce framework built on Drupal. It helps you build flexible and highly customizable commerce websites. Drupa Commerce is tightly integrated with Drupal 7 and lets you easily extend any its aspect through the use of third-party plugins.
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Ubercart
Ubercart is an exciting open source e-commerce shopping cart that fully integrates your online store with Drupal. This is a killer combination for anyone looking to build a community around a product, sell access to premium content, offer paid file downloads, and much more!
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Commerce Extras
Allows site builders to enable extra features or improvements which are missing from Drupal Commerce core. The module is a collection of minimal submodules which some of developer might not consider worth of a full project and therefore are added into this module.
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Commerce Price History
This module provides a price history feature for Drupal Commerce products. It’s especially useful for those who like keep track and analyze the ratio between product prices and product success in different periods of time.
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Commerce Multicurrency
Enhances some of the multi-currency capabilities of Drupal Commerce. It includes a few very useful features such as synchronization of currency exchange rates directly from the European Central Bank or hooks for easy integration of custom currency exchange rate sources.
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Wazala eCommerce
Wazala is an external-to-Drupal eCommerce solution for Drupal. The Wazala service offers a low impact, easy method for web site owners and developers to include eCommerce in their Drupal sites, without the additional, often significant, effort other Drupal eCommerce solutions require.
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Amazon Store
An Amazon Store for Drupal. This is an implementation of the Amazon Product Advertising API (formerly Amazon Associates Web Service, or AAWS) for Drupal. You can install this and right away you have an Amazon Associates Store.
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Terms of Use
This module adds Terms of Use and a “I agree” check box to the registration page. As an eCommerce website owner want to make sure that your customers are aware and agree with the terms of use they must respect and obey while they use your website’s services.
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Books
Selling Online with Drupal e-Commerce
This book will show you how to sell online using the award-winning open-source Drupal web application. No prior experience of Drupal is required; you will learn all you need as you step through the creation of an online shop. You will learn the basics of Drupal, and see how to use the standard features of Drupal to begin construction of an online shop, and improve the selling interface, handling of orders, and reporting with new modules and other customizations. This book is for people who want to start selling online as quickly as possible, and want to see how to use the proven Drupal platform to achieve this.
Drupal E-commerce with Ubercart 2.x
This book will take you through the basics, like Drupal and Ubercart installation and common settings, and as we proceed through the chapters, we’ll implement more advanced techniques. Whether you know Drupal or not, this book will be your guide to creating a powerful e-commerce web site. If you are a business owner wanting to create an eCommerce website for your company or to upgrade a company eShop to be easier to maintain and have advanced e-shopping capabilities, then this book is meant for you. You don’t need any programming experience to use this book.
Drupal 7 Business Solutions
“You can use the Drupal 7 content management system to build a small business website quickly. You may add blogs, images, maps, e-commerce, social application integration, and more to your site to connect with your customers and make more money from your business. Drupal 7 Business Solutions will give you hands-on practical tutorials on how to build a rich and dynamic website for your business quickly using one of the most popular tools in open source.” Trevor James
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