2. About me
• Vasil Boychev
• Drupalist since 2010
• Team Leader at Propeople
• Acquia Certified
Drupal Developer
• Board member at Drupal Bulgaria Foundation
• http://vasil.boychev.com
12. 816 million
people live in Europe
565 million
use Internet
264 million
shop online
Some statistics
13. 249 million
people live in Eastern Europe
114 million
use Internet
28 million
shop online
Some statistics
14. The potential of Macedonia
• 1 070 440 Internet users
• 80% of them use Internet every day
• 1 200 000+ credit and debit cards
• Most of them can be used for online purchase
• 700 000+ Facebook users
Some statistics
Recently there was a research about what is the most revolutionary invention of the 20th century.
And the results are the following:
7% of the asked people state it is the television.
Another 11% says it is the telephone.
Great inventions actually.
But which one is the most revolutionary?
Internet of course!
80% of the asked people say that Internet is the most revolutionary invention of 20th century.
I believe you are not surprised.
Check this out.
This is the number of internet users worldwide.
And now they become more.
And more.
Every single second they become more and more.
70% of them use Internet every single day.
Imagine what number of active internet users it is.
Some statistics from Europe.
Note that 264 million people shop online.
What is the situation in Eastern Europe?
28 million people shop online.
And some numbers for Macedonia.
See how many users are waiting for you to represent your products and services online.
When you decide to have an online shop it is very important to research about the e-commerce platforms on the market.
You have to take part not only in choosing vendor but in choosing the platform as well.
Because you are the one who will use and manage it.
There are many e-commerce platforms on the market.
And Drupal Commerce is one not so bad option.
I’ll describe why.
Here are some of the most important criteria for comparing e-commerce platforms.
It’s design or how it will looks like.
What types of reports it covers. Reports about sales, orders, customers, products, profit.
What functionality it has. Do you have some specific needs or something straightforward.
Is the platform integrated with e-payments systems and with what.
Is the platform integrated with external CRM, ERP systems.
What is Drupal Commerce?
Why to choose Drupal Commerce?
Drupal Commerce can fully adapt your business.
Your website is able to meet all of your future needs if your business is growing.
Your e-commerce website is build on Drupal 7.
That’s why you are up to date with all latest and greatest features of Drupal 7.
From the start, Drupal Commerce has been a community effort and it continue its growing thanks to the community.
You can easily integrate your Drupal Commerce website with social networks like Facebook, Twitter, etc.
As we saw earlier there is a huge amount of users in Facebook here in Macedonia so your presentation in Facebook is pretty important.
Each new version of core and contributed modules keep the project current and competitive.
You have complete control over how your store looks like through Drupal’s theme layer.
Also you have a full control about the layout of every single page using page and block features.
The Drupal Commerce core features include all you need for running your store
Products administration
Shopping cart
Checkout form
Supports multilingual
Many additional features provided by additional contributed modules
Support international currency, tax, and language needs.
Pricing engine:
alternate prices per currency
dynamic currency conversion
VAT inclusive product prices
Drupal Commerce has 3rd party integrations for:
Payment gateways
Accounting applications
Social networks
CRMs
ERPs
There is an API layer which allows you to support export and import of your ecommerce data
Responsive themes
Services module for mobile apps
no fees to access any of its features
community focused
free for use by anyone all over the world
Consulting or development services provided by Propeople