This document provides an overview of Drupal Commerce, an e-commerce solution for Drupal 7. It discusses the state of Drupal Commerce, its basic functionality including products, orders and customers, its architecture using entities and fields, and how it compares to the existing Ubercart module. The document concludes with a live demo of Drupal Commerce and useful links for more information.

1. DRUPAL COMMERCE IN DRUPAL 7
HOW TO BUILD ROBUST E-COMMERCE SITES
George Papadongonas - Infowonders
23 January 2011

2. INTRODUCTION
• Owner of Infowonders, located in Athens, Greece
• Co-organizer of Drupalcamp Athens
• Using Drupal since 2007
• Author of “Drupal E-commerce with Ubercart 2.x” book
(Packt Publishing)

3. SUMMARY
• Introduction to Drupal Commerce
• The state of Drupal Commerce
• Basic Functionality
• Architecture
• Comparison with Ubercart
• Drupal Commerce Demo
• Questions

4. DRUPAL COMMERCE
• It’s an e-commerce solution for Drupal 7
• It’s the successor of Ubercart
• It’s not a single module, but a family of modules
• Provides core and plugin modules
• Has all the potential to be #1 Open Source e-commerce
project

5. THE STATE OF DRUPAL
COMMERCE
• Now in Alpha 4
• Beta is coming out soon
• Drupal Commerce 1.0 is scheduled for Drupalcon Chicago
• Drupal Commerce Sprint took place last week in Paris

6. BASIC FUNCTIONALITY
• Product Entity
• Product Display
• Customer Profile
• Line Item
• Order
• Payment Transaction

7. FEATURES
• Using
a product reference field, we can present a product
everywhere
• Dynamic checkout forms, using D7 Ajax Framework and form
API
• Single
or multiple page checkout with drag and drop form
builder
• Attributes are now fields (oh yes!)

8. ARCHITECTURE
• User Drupal development standards
• Full simple test coverage
• Separation of underlying API’s from the default UI
• Dependencies: Address Fields, Chaos Tool Suite, Entity API,
Rules 2, Views 3

9. ARCHITECTURE
• Usescore entity and fields API for basic functionality
(Products, Customers, Line Items, Orders, Payments)
• Pricefield uses Rules module to determine different
prices for different users, roles, date or other
circumstances
• Taxes and shipping are also implemented through
Rules
• Product creation and product display are two
different processes

10. DRUPAL COMMERCE OR
UBERCART ?

11. UBERCART
• Ubercart has a 3.0 release for Drupal 7
• Now it user Rules and Views
• It’s mature and has a great community
• Has a lot of contrib modules
• Cover all the features of an e-commerce site

12. DRUPAL COMMERCE
• Drupal Commerce is not ready yet
• Itwill start as a framework, not as a complete e-commerce
platform
• Has about 15 contrib modules
• but: Has a great API, it’s more easy to develop

13. WHAT NOW?
• Useit right now if you like to learn new things and write
Drupal 7 modules
• Ifyou want to install a ready solution, use Ubercart (or wait
3-6 months)
• Upgrading from Ubercart to Drupal Commerce may be
difficult, as many parts of Ubercart (like attributes) were not
part of the CCK system

14. DEMO
• Products
• Cart & Orders
• Customers
• Configuration

15. USEFUL LINKS
• http://demo.commerceguys.com/dc/
• http://drupal.org/project/commerce
• http://www.drupalcommerce.org/

16. THANKS!
• http://www.infowonders.gr
• http://www.drupalubercartbook.com
• george@infowonders.gr
• twitter: @infowonders