An introduction to Drupal Commerce & Real World Examples July 13 2013
An Introduction to Drupal Commerce & Real World Examples
May 10, 2015
This is the presentation that accompanied LSU_JBOB's presentation at NYCCamp 2013 regarding Drupal Commerce. The session was designed for those who want to understand the broad concepts and processes that power Drupal Commerce. Foundational topics included commerce entities, the checkout process and payment gateways. In addition, brief explanations on inventory and shipping management, as well as accepting different forms of payment were discussed.
The second half of the session showcased two real world examples of companies using Drupal Commerce: The Diamond Reserve Steak Company that sells Texas beef using Drupal & The Robin Hood Foundation that uses Drupal Commerce to fight poverty in NYC.
The second half of the session showcased two real world examples of companies using Drupal Commerce: The Diamond Reserve Steak Company that sells Texas beef using Drupal & The Robin Hood Foundation that uses Drupal Commerce to fight poverty in NYC.
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An introduction to Drupal Commerce
&Real World Examples
July 13 2013
So!ware Architect
Email: [email protected]
John Robert Wilson
Twitter: @JohnRobertWilso
Drupal.org: LSU_JBob
The Basics
Commerce Entities
Products
• Something you’re trying to sell
• A title and a price
• Create product references on nodes for end users
Orders
• Start out with a status of “cart”
• Once a product is placed in the cart, a new order is created
• Contains Line Items, payment transactions
• Contains customer information and order metadata
Line Items
• An instance of a product in an order (or cart)
• Able to contain personalized options for that instance of the product
Payment Transactions
• Hold all detailed financial info and metadata
• Can have a status of accepted or declined
• Payload from Payment Gateways
Payment Gateways
Payment Gateways
• You don’t want to store actual credit card numbers ( compliance headaches, security headaches)
• Use 3rd Party Payment Gateways
• Send payment info over https to the third party and get accepted or declined
• Paypal, Payflow Pro, Authorize.Net, Amazon Payments, Bitcoin?!?
Checkout Process
Checkout Process
Commerce Rules
Commerce Rules
• Checkout process has Rules integrated into it
• Can be used to apply a tax based on state
• Can give a discount
• Much much more!
Shipping & Inventory
Shipping & Inventory
• Commerce Shipping contrib module!http://drupal.org/project/commerce_shipping
• For shipping physical products and creating customer shipping profiles
• Commerce Stock contrib module!http://drupal.org/project/commerce_stock
• Decrement stock as products are purchased
Hooks for Devs
Hooks for Developers
• hook_commerce_checkout_router - routes the default checkout url to an alternate url if neccessary
• hook_commerce_checkout_complete - Allows other modules to perform business logic when an order is completed
• hook_commerce_checkout_pane_info_alter - alter an existing checkout pane’s metadata
• MUCH MUCH MORE
Commerce Kickstart
Commerce Kickstart
• http://drupal.org/project/commerce_kickstart
• Nice quick configured drupal commerce site
• Includes latest version of core and all needed dependencies
A Real World Example
Diamond Reserve
Diamond Reserve
Diamond Reserve
Another Real World Example
Drupal Commerce
• Built from scratch with lessons learned in mind
• Extendable and flexible on many levels
• Blog post outlining this session
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