Building E-commerce Applications with Ubercart in Drupal

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Building E-commerce Applications with Ubercart in Drupal

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Lukasz Sokolowski (NobleProg Ltd)

Building E-commerce Applications with Ubercart in Drupal

Building E-commerce Applications with Ubercart in Drupal Training Materials

Outline: http://www.nobleprog.co.uk/training/building-e-commerce-applications-ubercart-drupal

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Installing Ubercart ⌘

Installation details:

• module package for Drupal
• won't run without Drupal
• requires Drupal installation and related modules
  • http://drupal.org/documentation/install

Ubercart System Requirements ⌘

memory limit to >= 64Mb

(for just drupal core it's 32Mb)

Module specific requirements

• uc_authorizenet: cURL
• uc_cybersource: cURL, or SOAP and DOM
• uc_google_checkout: SimpleXML
• uc_paypal: cURL
• uc_ups: SimpleXML, OpenSSL
• uc_usps: SimpleXML

Required modules(dependencies) ⌘

• Rules (version 7.x2.0beta2 or later)
• Views
• Ctools
• Entity API
• Entity tokens

Recommended modules ⌘

• Colorbox
• Google Analytics
• Token

Ubercart modules ⌘

• Ubercart package
  • main core modules
  • other core modules
• More additional modules
  • Optional non core modules
  • Fulfillment modules
  • Payment modules

Main core modules ⌘

Required core modules

• Cart (ubercart/uc_cart)
  • Gives you a shopping cart for an Ubercart e-commerce site.
• Order (ubercart/uc_order)
  • Allows you receive and manage orders through your website.
• Product (ubercart/uc_product)
  • Allows you to create products for your store. Imagecache and CCK Image field are recommended for displaying images of products.
• Store (ubercart/uc_store)
  • Allows you to setup the store settings and manage your Ubercart site.

Optional other core modules ⌘

Provide other basic systems and functionality but may not be required for every store.

• Attribute (ubercart/uc_attribute)
  • Allows customer selectable options on products. For example, if you sold shirts you'd give the customer a selectable option on the size.
• Catalog (ubercart/uc_catalog)
  • Creates a block and a page display of products by category.
• File Downloads (ubercart/uc_file)
  • Allows products to be associated with downloadable files.
• Notify (ubercart/uc_notify)
  • Send e-mail notifications to customers at checkout and when modifying their orders.
• Payment (ubercart/payment/uc_payment)
  • Enables the payments API for receiving and tracking payments through your site. All payment related modules are found in the ubercart/payment directory.

Optional other core modules(more) ⌘

• Reports (ubercart/uc_reports)
  • View reports about your store's sales, customers, and products.
• Roles (ubercart/uc_roles)
  • Assign permanent or expirable roles based on product purchases.
• Shipping Quotes (ubercart/shipping/uc_quote)
  • Displays shipping quote information to customers at checkout. All shipping related modules are found in the ubercart/shipping directory.
• Shipping (ubercart/shipping/uc_shipping)
  • Sets up shipments for shipping companies with integrated web services.
• Taxes (ubercart/uc_taxes)
  • Calculates tax on orders

More additional modules ⌘

• Optional non core modules
• Fulfillment modules
• Payment modules

Optional non core modules ⌘

Helpful, but not essential.

• Cart Links (ubercart/uc_cart_links)
• Google Analytics for Ubercart (ubercart/uc_googleanalytics)
• Importer (ubercart/uc_importer)
• Product Kit (ubercart/uc_product_kit)
• Repeater (ubercart/uc_repeater)
• Stock (ubercart/uc_stock)

Fulfillment modules ⌘

Extend the functionality of the shipping quote and order fulfillment systems.

• Flatrate (ubercart/shipping/uc_flatrate)
• UPS Shipping (ubercart/shipping/uc_ups)
• USPS (ubercart/shipping/uc_usps)
• Weight quote (ubercart/shipping/uc_weightquote)

Payment modules ⌘

Extend the functionality of the payments API and so rely on the core Payment module being enabled.

• 2Checkout (ubercart/payment/uc_2checkout)
• Authorize.net (ubercart/payment/uc_authorizenet)
• Credit Card (ubercart/payment/uc_credit)
• CyberSource (ubercart/payment/uc_cybersource)
• Payment Method Pack (ubercart/payment/uc_payment_pack)
• PayPal (ubercart/payment/uc_paypal)
• Recurring Payments (ubercart/payment/uc_recurring)
• Test Gateway (ubercart/payment/uc_payment)

Configuring Your Store ⌘

Just installing and enabling the required modules is not enough.

There are post installations we need to do.

Related drupal manual: http://drupal.org/node/1311846

Cart Settings ⌘

• Basic settings
• Cart lifetime
• Continue shopping element
• Cart breadcrumb

Checkout Settings ⌘

• Settings
  • Basic settings
  • Anonymous checkout
  • Customer information pane
  • Instruction messages
  • Completion messages
• Rules

Country Settings ⌘

• Countries
• Address fields
• Address formats
• Import countries

Order Settings ⌘

• Settings
  • Invoice settings
  • View screen
  • Edit screen
  • Invoice screen
  • Customer screen
• Workflow
• Manage fields
• Manage display

Product Settings ⌘

• Product settings
• Attribute settings
• File download settings

Store Settings ⌘

• Basic information
• Store address
• Currency format
• Weight format
• Length format
• Display settings

Contributed Modules ⌘

• Ubercart Subproduct (uc_subproduct)
• UC Alertpay Integration
• UC Node Checkout
• UberPOS
• Ubercart Addresses
• Ubercart Gestpay (uc_gestpay)
• Ubercart Marketplace
• Ubercart pictured cart block
• ePay - Scandinavian payment module
• uc_dropdown_attributes

More contributed modules ⌘

Go to: http://drupal.org/project/modules

and type "ubercart" in "Search Modules:" field

there are above 500 modules related somehow to ubercart

If we still need something different, we can ask here:

http://www.ubercart.org/forum

Example sites: ⌘

http://www.ubercart.org/site

References and materials: ⌘

• Manuals and links
• Books

Manuals and links ⌘

• Ubercart manual
  • for users and different versions
    • http://www.ubercart.org/docs/user
  • d7 and ubercart 3
    • http://www.ubercart.org/docs/user/30436/ubercart_3x
• Drupal project
  • http://drupal.org/project/ubercart

Books ⌘

"Drupal 7 Ubercart 3 Ecommerce Manual", David Ipswitch http://www.amazon.com/Drupal-Ubercart-Ecommerce-Manual-ebook/dp/B007SF5I34/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368604646&sr=1-1&keywords=ubercart

"Drupal Web Services", Trevor James http://www.amazon.com/Drupal-Web-Services-Trevor-James/dp/1849510989/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368604646&sr=1-7&keywords=ubercart

Drupal alternatives: ⌘

Drupal Commerce module

http://drupal.org/project/commerce

http://www.commerceguys.com/