1. Drupal
commerce
An ecommerce framework

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

4. Core concepts

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.

9. Create an order

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?