Webinar: Architecting Drupal Commerce Sites
Details:
Date:
December 4, 2013
Time:
11am EST / 5pm CET
Duration:
1 Hour
Webinar Speakers:
Ryan Szrama, Esq. & Mr. Josh Miller
Before diving into a Drupal Commerce project, you must reconcile the product model and business rules of your merchant with the data model and processes of the framework. Thanks to its dependence on Drupal's entity system, Views, and Rules, Drupal Commerce is flexible enough to accommodate most requirements with little custom development required. However, to get the most out of the system, you must understand how it's using these systems and where it expects different types of data for products, transactions, etc. to reside.
This session will examine the entity types defined by Drupal Commerce, their relationships, and their methods of creation to give you a high level understanding of the Drupal Commerce architecture. Through a series of real world examples, we'll walk through the architecting process for some of the product and business models listed below:
- Simple product sales
- Products with attributes
- Customizable products
- Variable priced products (i.e. donations)
- Crowd funding portals
- Multi-seller marketplaces
- Manual eBay synchronization
- Invoice payment with no cart
- Subscription products with recurring payment
The architecture of Drupal Commerce isn't set in stone, and in fact we've already prepared a roadmap that includes a new Store entity type and changes to the product data model (among other things) that will change how you architect your future sites. We'll review the high points of the roadmap and demonstrate how the previous examples might be created more easily and efficiently in the next version of Drupal Commerce.
Ryan Szrama is the original developer of Drupal Commerce and currently maintains the project. He's also the VP of Community Development for Commerce Guys.
Mr. Josh Miller is the Technical Communicator for Commerce Guys. If you've had a question answered on DrupalCommerce.org or watched an Commerce Module Tuesday, then you've already met him!