I am a new user, looking to setup a website to sell printer consumable products.
I have setup Drupal 5.3 and installed e-commerce 3.4 & enabled Paypal to process payments.
Would like some insight! - (hope to contribute as I build up skills)
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Is there a tutorial/guide to setting up an e-commerce site?
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I seem to be able to input product, product details & price,
I need to know how?? to group & subgroup the products.
My products would be grouped under 6-12 Brand Catagories, Each Brand would have a few sub catagories, the product/s would be under this.
ie; User selects (from 6 Brands ) Brand A, system will then display available sub catagories (sub_cat1 .. sub_cat13), user selects sub_cat3, then the product match would be displayed, he selects what he wants and checks out!
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How do I control the size of the frame that the product is displayed or number of products displayed at once?
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A key requirement for me is to offer on the fly "rewards or credit coupons", each time a product is selected and entered into the shopping cart, the cart value is updated when the customer checks out, he is taken to Paypal for payment, Just before this point I would like to issue him a " credit reward coupon" for use with the next transaction.
How? where do I code this? I have seen that coupons are supported.
Thank you in advance.
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Taxonomy
The grouping of products can be done with the standard taxonomies in Drupal. This is not something e-commerce specific. First create a vocabulary "Brand" and add the appropriate terms to that vocabulary. Then indicate that this vocabulary applies to your products. Now when you create a product you will be able to assign it a brand.
Here's more informationt: http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/taxonomy
Taxonomy
Jax,
Thank you for your valuable assistance! I would not have known where to look.
Just starting to digest this....
Confirming steps:
I goto Content Management>Catagories>
then Add Vocabularies
I create "Brands" example; Acme, GlobalDynamics, Recall
Each "Brand" has models
Would these be "terms" example I add Under Acme -> A100, A200, A300
Now I have a list of Products that have been entered, these will need to be associated to the "brand" and "model".
So far OK, - Can I add, modify & edit vocabulary & terms, and will the associated product pick up the change?
How and where do I setup a menu option to:
Select "Brand" list these then Select "Model" list for the "Brand" then display only associated Product (for review & purchase).
Appreciate your assistance with this.
Best regards,
Check out
Check out http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_menu. It can build menu's based on your taxonomy. Also of interest is http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_browser but that seems to be only available for drupal 4.7.