Drupal commerce 2.x for Drupal 8

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Drupal Commerce 2
for Drupal 8
Drupal Camp Munich 2016
@Iztok, AGILEDROP

Do we even need
Drupal Commerce?

Use cases for Drupal Commerce
● Using Drupal’s powerful platform as a base
● Merging content and commerce together
● Selling digital products (access to content, memberships, downloads)
● Add ecommerce functionality to an existing Drupal website
● All-in-one platforms (Multilingual, multi store, multi user roles platforms)
● Using Drupal Commerce for front-end (leaving handling the logic to CRMs
and ERPs)

What we need to know
● Depends on Drupal 8.2.x
● Needs to be installed with composer
● 8.x-2.0-beta4 released on 30 Nov 2016
● Developed lead by Commerce Guys
○ Bojan Živanović (bojanz)
○ Matt Glaman (mglaman)
○ Ryan Szrama (rszrama)

What’s new?
● Currencies
● Tax
● Stores
● Products and variations
● Attributes
● Promotions
● Orders
● Checkouts
● Payments
● Shipping

Currencies
• Currencies are now entities
• Import currencies from CLDR
• The price field stores amounts and
their currency codes
• Multilingual support

Taxes
• Territory-specific (EU, Canada...) rules
• Tax rates based on the date
• Tax resolvers for all major use cases
• No UI yet, in development.
• More on Commerce Guys blog:
https://drupalcommerce.org/blog/31036/commerce-2x-stories-taxes
• Tax library by CG: https://github.com/commerceguys/tax
No UI yet :(

Stores
• Support for multiple stores
• Each store has its own settings line
email, address and default currency.

Products
• Not tied to Node any more: product
is its own entity type
• Product references Product
variations
• Inline entity form
• Better in-line experience

Variations
• Product variations represent
individual SKU
• One-to-one relationship, one
variable can only be in one product.

Attributes
• Attributes are entities
• Attributes have an easy to use
interface to edit multiple attributes.

“Fancy
attributes”
• Fancy attributes in Commerce core
• Instead of dropdown we can
render any field (text, image) for
attribute selection

Promotions
• Promotions = Discount + Coupons
• In Commerce core module
• No more rules, using Condition
plugins API from Drupal 8
• Using adjustment API (no more
saved as line items in order)

Orders
• Multiple types of order
(commerce_order_types in D7)
• We can assign a views to an Order
type
• We can assign a checkout flow to
an Order type
• Line items are now Order items
and can only be purchasable items

Order items
• “Add to cart” form is fully
customisable (it’s a display for Order
item)
• We can add custom fields to order
types

Cart
• We can have different types of
carts based on the order (eg digital
cart and physical cart)
• Cart form and Cart blocks are Views
and can be altered

Checkout flows
• Supports multiple checkout flows
• The default Multistep plugin has UX
improvements based on best
practices

Payments
• Reusing one payment plugin
multiple times
• Payment configuration can be
simply exported and secured offsite
• Example payment included
• Already support for Braintree and
Authorise.Net

Modules now included in Commerce core
● commerce_order_types
● commerce_custom_line_items
● commerce_custom_product
● commerce_cardonfile
● commerce_checkout_progress
● field_extractor (deprecated)
● commerce_fancy_attributes
● commerce_addressbook
● commerce_checkout_progress
● commerce_checkout_login
● commerce_login_step
● commerce_checkout_login
● commerce_coupon
● commerce_discount

Shipping
• Flat rate included in the module
(20k out of 26k 7.x installs use flat
rate)
• Orders can have multiple
Shipments (1 by default)
• Multiple shipments would be used
for different stock location etc.
• Shipment is a fieldable entity
• Address is attached to the shipping
No UI yet :(

Product bundles
• Collects existing products together
in a bundle
• Bundle, Bundle Type, Bundle Item,
and Bundle Item Type
• In active development
• Detailed description:
https://www.drupal.org/node/27996
43

What about
Ubercart?

Ubercart 8.x-4.x
● Version: 8.x-4.0-alpha5
● Direct port from Drupal 7.x-3.x
● Out of the box functionality
● Limited data structure

Q&A
Too shy? Feel free to email me: iztok@agiledrop.com

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