Drupal Café: Introduction to Drupal Commerce
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This document provides an introduction and technical overview of Drupal Commerce, an e-commerce platform built on Drupal. It discusses how Drupal Commerce uses entities like products, orders, and customers. It also describes how product variations allow creating different SKUs. Additionally, it outlines the checkout process and highlights the many contributed modules available to customize store functionality, such as for inventory, discounts, coupons, and more. Finally, it explains how the Rules module is heavily used in Drupal Commerce to react to events and automate parts of the checkout flow.
Drupal Café: Introduction to Drupal Commerce
- 1. INTRODUCTION TO DRUPAL COMMERCE: - Drupal Commerce: Technical overview - Versatility in product functionality - How Rules rules Drupal Commerce Hiski Valli
- 2. Hiski Valli • Worked in Exove since 2012 • 5 years Drupal experience (multiple DC projects, one UberCart project) • 3 years professional development before Drupal, using PHP frameworks & CMSes • Once made a CMS from scratch
- 3. Drupal Commerce: Technical overview
- 4. Overview: Drupal and entities • Drupal is built on entities (Nodes, Comments, Users, Taxonomy terms, Files, etc) • DC introduces new e-commerce related entities: – Product variation – Order – Line item – Customer profile – Payment transaction
- 5. Product architecture Node Display Product variation Attributes (Color, Size, etc) SKU1 Color Size SKU2 Color
- 6. Entity: Product variation • Variation entity – Individual “SKU”s (Stock Keeping Units) – Has price, variation title, custom fields – Can be attributed (usually by taxonomy terms) • The product Page is a Node – References product variations • Product reference = Product form – The product reference creates the product form using the variations and their attributes
- 9. Other entities • Order ( & line items) – Starts when user adds an order to the cart – Evolves on the checkout process – Contains line items • Customer profile – Shipping & billing info • Payment transaction – Payment data from the provider
- 10. Checkout process Cart Product pages + cart page Checkout (can have multiple steps) Review Confirm and move to payment Payment Integrated / external Complete Thank you page
- 11. Versatility in product functionality
- 12. Product related modules • Drupal Commerce has a ton of contributed modules – www.drupalcommerce.org has 463 listed when writing – Example categories: Payment, Shipping & Fulfillment, Checkout, Price & Discount, Cart • A wide set of tools for creating not-so-typical commerce sites – Not just t-shirts • Focus on product related modules for this introduction
- 14. Example contrib modules • Commerce stock – Stock management • Commerce discount – Give discounts – By total, by product, by shipping country, etc... • Commerce coupon – With discount integration • Commerce product radioactivity – Recommend popular products to users
- 15. Example contrib modules • Commerce product bundle – Products inside products! • Commerce product add-on – Product add-on products • Commerce GC – Gift card functionality • Commerce customizable products – Example: engraved ring • Commerce physical products – Manage shipping costs by weight etc…
- 16. Example contrib modules • Commerce license – Sell local / remote access, node access, site access – Synchronizable with remote services • Commerce file – License your files • Commerce license billing – Recurring billing for licenses • Commerce recurring framework – Creation of recurring orders with automated payment • Etc, etc…
- 17. How Rules rules Drupal Commerce
- 18. Rules Event • Something happens Condition • Check if conditions are fulfilled • Events can provide data for conditions Action • If conditions were fulfilled • Events and Conditions can provide data for actions
- 19. Rules in Drupal Commerce • Drupal Commerce checkout flow is highly built on the Rules module • Rules is for Reacting what Views is for Listing • DC provides a ton of events, conditions and actions for Rules to tap into • Most of DC contributed modules use rules to effect the checkout process. • But, most of the time no code is even needed
- 20. Some default rules for DC
- 21. This checks if user goes back to the cart
- 22. Example uses • Check stock levels • Free shipping for over 50€ • Check shipping address, free shipping if local • If product X in cart, do not let user add product Y • Only let user add product X, if product Y is in cart • Product purchase per user role
- 23. Let’s discuss!