Commerce Kickstart 2.0 is now available as a developer release on Drupal.org. We’ve been working since March on this completely new distribution and we're now asking you, the Commerce developer community, to help us add the final touches. There's a lot left to do, but a full release – worthy of building your next mission critical eCommerce site – will be ready by DrupalCon Munich, in August (see Ryan's session on the topic).
The new version of Kickstart is a complete eCommerce website for selling physical goods through an online store. It shows all of the best practices for setting up and managing a Drupal Commerce store, including a greatly simplified user experience for store managers. It also features a beautiful new theme with out-of-the-box responsive design.
Features for store managers or site builders:
- Simplified product entry and creation
- Simplified product and order management screens
- Discounts and coupons
- Commerce Analytics
Features for customers:
- Social logins
- Product slideshows
- Faceted product search
- Address book has been rebuilt
- Image zoom feature
- Fancy product attributes
Augustin Delaporte and I will be presenting a sneak peek of the new Commerce Kickstart 2.0 at the Drupal Developer Days in Barcelona this weekend. Hope to see you there!
Simplified product entry and creation
If you’re already familiar with Drupal Commerce, or the previous version of Kickstart, you’re familiar with the many steps that were needed to first create products and then separately create product displays. Kickstart 2.0 has addresses this head-on, and offers simplified on-site product entry and management. The creation of products has been combined with the creation of product displays and consolidated onto one form. See the Inline Entity Form module for more details.
Simplified product and order management screens
New product overview and order history screens have been added to simplify the work of shop administrators. Search and filter masks are combined with bulk updates to facilitate dealing with large numbers of products and orders.
Orders:
Discounts and coupons
Coming soon: A new user interface for offering Rules-based discounts on products, such as “15% off for the month of July”, or “Free shipping for orders over $99”.
Commerce Analytics
Commerce Guys Commerce Analytics provides realtime analyatics integration tracks products, campaigns, affiliates, and social channels to help you learn what is driving the most returns and contributing to profitability.
Social logins
Customers can authenticate with Facebook, Google, or Twitter. The system is extensible to include any OAuth based authentication system.
Product slideshows
Show off your products in the best way by easily adding them to a slideshow, like the one featured on the Kickstart front page.
Faceted product search
Customers will find exactly the products they're looking for with the new faceted product search. Conditional facets and a graphical product grid help people drill down to the items they are looking for.
Address book has been rebuilt
Customers now have great tools for managing their billing and shipping addresses right from their user profile.
Image zoom feature
Customers can inspect the fine details of product photos with the nifty image zoom feature.
Fancy product attributes
Color attributes on products render as actual colors, making product displays look crisp and clean.
Comments
drupal commerce 2.0 is looking great
Drupal Commerce 1.0 while a great piece of work, lacked much of the features needed to actually be site owner usable. It looks like the work you guys are doing for the second round has addressed most of my concerns and I'm looking forward to attempting to build sites with Drupal Commerce again. Kudos to the team.
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drupal commerce themes and development
Wow, that looks really
Wow, that looks really awesome! Thanks for the hard work guys! :)
Now I'm looking forward to build my first commerce site even more ;-)
you rock
This is really really
This is really really exciting stuff! With commerce being so complex, having a functional kickstart is really going to spur adoption.
One question though-- can it be used to sell registrations to events? A common request i get a lot lately for a COD type site that handles registrations for events in addition to swag.
Two helpful resources
Kickstart 2.0 doesn't have this feature, but here are two approaches for achieving event registrations.
http://drupal.org/project/commerce_registration
http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/episode51
broken package?
Ok, I give up-- there's no 2.x package on the project page and all the download links on the "view all releases" page are broken.
where do we go to try it out/contribute?
Try again
I just downloaded the commerce_kickstart-7.x-2.x-dev-core.zip from http://drupal.org/node/1605434 and it is installing fine.
nice looking....
nice looking....
what are the differences ?
what are the differences ?
commerce_kickstart-7.x-2.x-dev-core.tar.gz
commerce_kickstart-7.x-2.x-dev-no-core.tar.gz
commerce_kickstart-7.x-2.x-dev.tar.gz
Different packages offered by drupal.org
When drupal.org packages an installation profile, it does it in three ways, listed here in order of the packages you listed above:
Some of Commerce Kickstart 2.x's modules and themes are contained in the actual installation profile repository, so those will still be available with the third option, but other contributed modules that Drupal Commerce depends on (such as Views and Rules) would not be.
Congratulations
Creating this v2 distro was a great idea, but the execution is truly impressive. This not only showcases the Commerce module but actually showcases Drupal 7 in a fantastic way.
Can't wait to see what you guys come up with next.
Keren
Keren is mean for Cool. Nice work guys. 5 thumbs up for Commerce 2
upgradable?
Sigh.... so I'm planning to launch my new Drupal Commerce 1.0 next week..... but I GOTTA have these new features. Can I upgrade 1.0 to 2.0? Or do I have to start fresh 2.0?
This is an install profile,
This is an install profile, so no upgrading, only installing from scratch.
If you're launching next week that means that the site is ready.
Kickstart v2 is not, it is in an alpha state, and in constant flux, so launching a site on it is not a smart idea before Munich anyway (unless you're an awesome developer interested in helping out and not getting frustrated with the occasional and more-than-occasional bugs ;)).
That said, ping me on #drupal-commerce and we can discuss how you can integrate individual features that you find interesting. They are divided nicely to separate contrib modules, so you might be able to take advantage of some of them right now.
Most of my site is
Most of my site is autogenerated from scratch by importing spreadsheets when products are added or updated, so the new UI deliciousness won't be needed until I hand off the site to the client in a few months. For now I'm going live with what we have. I use Aegir for development which does allow for easy upgrading via install profiles, so I'll experiment with a copy of the current 1.0 site cloned to the Kickstart 2.0 install profile and contribute back with my experience. Awesome work Commerce Guys! Thanks!
Guide for existing sites
A guide on how to add these features to existing Commerce sites would be really helpful.
Just gave V2 a try, and it looks great!
+1 on this Guide idea
Would love to try out some of these features on my current v1 store, wherever possible.
Kickstart v2
I have this version installed http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/commerce_kickstart-7.x-2.x-dev-core...
I love the Kv2 layout.. I am trying to replace many of the elements and products with my own. How do I go about doing that without messing up the current layout.
should I install this version if I want a functional and stable site today? http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/commerce_kickstart-7.x-1.8-core.tar.gz
Awesome
This looks fracking awesome! I always wanted to tip my toes in the Commerce pond but really feared the climb up the 1.0 hill. This looks neat, very well thought through any darn sexy. Kudos!
I can't wait to use it.
Wow, men you do really good stuff in this 2.0 ! Looks awesome !
I'm actually building my first e-commerce website, starting with 1.0 and it's already nice, but all that new front/back options/features looks really really great.
Drupal Commerce become more and more powerfull and user friendly every days...
Thank for your great works guys.
I look forward to test it...
Love It!
Love what you have done with the kickstart profile. I would love to see the product bundle module incorporated also.
Installing Kickstart
Looks awesome! What's the best procedure for installing kickstart in an already existing Drupal site? Do I need to replace Views, Rules, Entity and other contrib modules with the ones in Kickstart?
Kickstart is for new installs
Kickstart is for new installs only. It will be possible to install most of the enhancements separately, but for now it should really be evaluated as a whole. Furthermore, it is alpha quality (we are tagging alpha1 tonight) and shouldn't be let anywhere near production sites.
Kickstart
What about the no core version of Kickstart 1.8? I have one existing site I need to add Commerce to, and another in dev that I can wait on a bit. Please excuse me, I'm still relatively new to Drupal and still learning about some of this. Thanks!
Kickstart V2
I installed the V2 branch today - there are a few rough edges during the install but from my view it is going to be awesome when it is ready.
Please, please, please . . .
Please ditch the themes, or at least allow the user to choose Bartik from the installation! The underlying framework is a marvelous advancement, but it's obscured by the hideous, amateurish design. I realize this is a subjective observation, but please give the user the opportunity to use Bartik at least until they can create a custom theme for their purposes. I promise the new design will retard adoption.
All core themes are still
All core themes are still there, and you can switch to them after installation if the custom Kickstart ones don't suit your taste.
Great work!
Great work!
But you forgot about SEO. There is no h1 tag on product cart and category. It's very important tag and I hope you add it to your kickstart
upgrade
There are some cool features in v2 that I'd like to integrate in our existing work. I hope it will be easy to upgrade from existing setups.
Install Profile
Just trying out the 2.0 install profile. Not sure if this is me or not (I've installed Drupal / Ubercart with without profiles many times) but the various stages of install.php keep presenting a white page. I then have to either refresh (worked on two occasions) or go back to the first step. It then jumps to the step it was on when it whet white.
Just a point of note really. Hope this makes sense. Also HTH
New Vesrsion
I have spent he best part of developing a e-store on and off and as non developer the new vesrion sounds great as it includes a lot of things i had to jurry rig. Can I suggest combining a bit of the app version of drupal as that also looks promising. Keep up the work and thanks to everyone out there for your posts. They were invaluable. Cheers Ian G (Eudlo QLD Aust)
Implement canonical URLs for particular products on product disp
Great News, those are very usefull features in Kickstart 2.0!
One major open issue is that the usage of product display nodes, referencing multiple product entities, doesn't allow to have 1 URL for each product variation.... issue: http://drupal.org/node/1082596
It would be awesome if you could include a solution in v2.0 :-)
Cheers,
Stefan
Thank God!
Awesome, thank you All so much. My clients are hard pressed to figure out the product / displays. This is going to wipe out requests for Word Press! Drupal overcomes again!
Awesome
We were using drupalcommerce and kickstart in the beginning.I have installed the Alpha version I couldn't believe its amazing :)
Hope you can release the beta very soon
Cheers!!!
Very awsome guys!!! One thing
Very awsome guys!!! One thing... the theme is beautiful but is a bit huge...
I guess modules for the first
I guess modules for the first version won't work with version 2. right?
Everything still works! It's
Everything still works! It's the same Drupal 7 with the same Commerce 1.x, we've just added lots of magic on top :)
Love it
Faceted Search is the best. And I love the theme too. You guys are awesome--thanks for all the hard work!
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