Drupal Camp Dallas 2009 : Ubercart

Ubercart : Adding eCommerce to Community Plumbing
Drupal Camp Dallas 2009
John Jesushttp://www.worldwideclarity.com

… about the presenter
John Jesus
Former principal in the eBusiness Practice of Deloitte Consulting in San Francisco, CA
Principal Engineer with Dallas Area defense contractor
Secure operating systems and networking, embedded software, cryptography
Classified projects for US military
Drupal consultant at night and on weekends
First Drupal website: http://www.planowestlacrosse.org
Email: john.jesus@worldwideclarity.com

The eCommerce Process Flow

A package of modules for Drupal
Not a single module
Five groups of modules, each larger and more complex than heavyweight Drupal facilities like Views and CCK
More modules than Drupal Core itself!
Modules to support the eCommerce Process Flow
Customers
Products
Shopping cart
Shipping and Tax
Payments
Order Tracking and Fulfillment
Inventory
What is Ubercart?

The Many Modules of Ubercart

How is Drupal part of eCommerce?
Other Platforms
Hosted solutions
Community
Articles and blogs
Comments
Ratings
Events
Social networking
Strong SEO
Vs.
Your customers will find out about your site, hang around longer browsing the community content, and, visit later for freshly updated information.

Ubercart uses Drupal
Customer Contact
Product Catalog
Shipping/Tax Calculation
Product Review/Rating
Affinity Program
Pre-Sales
Shopping Cart
CCK
ImageCache
Views
Nodes (Rating, Comments)
Actions
Taxonomy
User Profile
Blocks
SimpleNews
Webform

Case Study in Motivation:Aidant Books
http://www.aidantbooks.com

Ubercart Module Overview
Ubercart Core
Ubercart Core – Optional
Ubercart – Extra
Ubercart – Fulfillment
Ubercart - Payment

Store Administration Dashboard

Ubercart Core
Cart
Conditional Actions
Order
Product
Store

Ubercart Core - Optional
Attribute
Catalog
Payment
Reports
Roles
Shipping
Shipping Quotes
Tax Report
Taxes

Ubercart – Extra and Fulfillment
Cart Links
Stock
Flatrate (shipping)

Ubercart - Payment
Paypal
Credit Card
Test Gateway

Resources
Ubercart website: http://ubercart.org
Excellent documentation
Chapter 10 of Using Drupal book
Step-by-step installation
Top Notch Themes Online Store paper
Tips and tricks for theming