An introductory session describing the capabilities of Drupal Commerce. In depth Drupal Commerce training takes a couple of days, so this session will outline the basic concepts you need to understand before embarking on your first Commerce project. Topics covered include: * Products and product displays - what they are and why they are different * Rules based pricing * Product options and variations * Out-of-the-box functionality * Overview of major contributed modules * Things to look out for and common misconceptions * Case studies This is intended to be a beginner course to get you started and also to introduce some of the differences if you are already using Ubercart for Drupal 6. Video: http://archive.org/details/BadcampukApril2012-RichardJones-DrupalCommerceEssentials

1. DRUPAL COMMERCE
ESSENTIALS

2. THE ESSENTIALS
‣ What do you get in Commerce Core?
‣ The fundamental principals
‣ Essential Contributed Modules
http://drupal.org/project/commerce

3. OUT OF THE BOX
‣ Products
‣ Cart / Orders
‣ Line Items
‣ Customer Profiles
‣ Transactions
‣ Price Calculation Model

4. PRODUCTS
‣ Products vs Product Displays
‣ Understanding the concept is key
‣ Products can also be described as Variations

5. PRODUCTS
‣ Each var iation of a
product has a separate
SKU
‣ Use a product display to
show multiple products
together

6. BULK PRODUCT CREATION
New iPad = 2 colours, 3 memory variations + 4G option =
12 variations to enter
Use Bulk Product Creation to create all variations.

7. LIVE DEMO PART 1
‣ Bulk create products
‣ Set up product options
‣ Create a single product display

9. HIDE THE COMPLEXITY
‣ Once you understand why the setup is this way
‣ Work with the UI to hide it from the site admin
‣ http://drupal.org/project/inline_entity_form

10. LIVE DEMO PART 2
‣ Inline edit of product variations
‣ What happens when variations are removed

12. PRICES AND VAT
‣ The selling price is made up of components.
‣ Start with Base Price
‣ Add Tax
‣ Discounts and Fees

13. RULES BASED PRICING
Gives you amazing flexibility in determining the price displayed
‣ Depending on the date
‣ Depending on the user
‣ Depending on other items in the order
‣ Depending on the payment method

15. ESSENTIAL CONTRIB
Commerce Shipping
Coupons and offers...
Trailer for the next session!

17. YOUR QUESTIONS