Selling with Drupal: e-Commerce and Ubercart

Selling with Drupal: e-Commerce and Ubercart
Using Drupal to sell products online can help your business grow. This session will review the requirements for running an ecommerce site on Drupal, and introduce users to the two most powerful solutions.

The Drupal e-Commerce suite of modules are a hidden gem that I rarely hear much about. I’m not a maintainer, or working on the future EC4 - rather a very heavy user of these tools for clients. I have spent a year, and built 5 client sites based on Drupal + e-Commerce V3. Its an awesome way to have your community + cart under one roof. I will step through some of the tricks to using Drupal Ecommerce on a production basis. Theming carts, key overrides, and other ideas to make a pretty sweet ecommerce site and get things rolled out quickly.

Ubercart is an e-commerce suite for Drupal that has been in development since late 2006, and it is now being put to good use by many mom and pop shops, web development outfits, and corporations including Warner Brothers Records and AOL. As the march toward a 1.0 release draws to a close, we project that Ubercart will continue to draw new users from both the Drupal community and general e-commerce corners of the web.

Site Building Track
Audience for this would essentially be anyone interested in Drupal ecommerce suite for their clients.

AGENDA
* Offline issues - SSL certs, authorize.net accts, dealing with merchant banks, fulfillment houses
* Monitoring transactions, getting fulfillment people up to speed
* A quick review of a couple sites and how they are using Drupal Ecommerce effectively http://www.jonesofwashington.com, http://www.glazerscamera.com
* Theming carts, key overrides
* If time, perhaps talk through ideas on tying in web services from all the various players.
* Ubercart’s history and future
* Feature overview/explanation
* Integration with core and contributed Drupal APIs/systems (think Users, Forms, CCK, Views, Userpoints, etc.)
* Livetest demonstration and live site showcase
* Introduction to community site and resources

GOALS
By the end of the session, you’ll be very familiar with what Drupal e-Commerce and Ubercart modules can do, and have some tools to deploy your Drupal sales solution.