Posted by antoniobrandao on May 31, 2011 at 4:05am
Hello everyone!
I'm looking for some advice while just starting with Drupal. What is the simplest solution possible to implement an extremely simple online shop? I don't need user accounts, wishlists, events or any other fancy features. My page will only have a few items for sale, around 20.
I only need that people can fill a "basket" and check out. Would be good if people could pay after checking out via Credit Card or PayPal.
That's it, nothing more.
Please note 'm just starting to learn PHP.
I've seen a few solutions out there but they all seemed over-complicated and offering unecessary features for me. My shop will be "Lite" :)
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You really only have two
You really only have two options in drupal in my opinion.
If on d7 you want drupal commerce. I would consider this a "lite" solution.
If you're on d6 you choice is ubercart. This is a little more heavy, but will sastisfy your needs. To my knowledge there are no true lightweight options.
Otherwise you could roll your own paypal integration by embedding a paypal add to cart form on each product listing.
You've probably already tried these options...but when using drupal, they are your best bet.
Drupal & Commerce Themes
Does your cart have to be
Does your cart have to be fully integrated into your drupal?
When I have something simple like this, I often just use JotForm to set up a simple form with a simple set of products embedded in the form, then copy the form into my site and let JotForm handle the rest. Simple, and very light.
:)
Thanks for the quick replies
I'm using Drupal 7.2. I'm a newbie so I didn't choose it based on any criteria, other than, the latest should be the best...
My cart does not have to be fully integrated into Drupal. Good point. Carts don't have to be stored in databases. The scope of their existence may be limited to a user's session.
I have no experience with JotForm so I still didn't fully understand how I could use it to make it work but I will definetly have a look at that right now.
I will also search for some tutorials on how to implement Drupal Commerce, if you have any recommendations on these let me know.
Thanks again
I am using ubercart in D7 and
I am using ubercart in D7 and it is coming along nicely, when researching this I also received the recommendation that Commerce was the prefered solution for D7, I am notr sure that this is entirely the case ,the team at ubercart are still active and working hard on the D7 version, it suited my needs better (I found it easier to implement with taxonomy in panels) .
This is not to denigrate the great work being done on Commerce, I just think that too many peope are ready to write of ubercart and it still seems to be a fine solution.
Brodie
Ubercart is nice.
Ubercart is pretty easy to set up and once it is you can add and change your items easily.
I recommend it mainly because once all the supporting modules are in there, it is an out of the box solution.
Also, the build in shopping cart is excellent and Ubercart takes many payment methods.
An evening of installation should get one up and running in short order.
-Cheers,
Emily Ulm at EmuTile.com
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I would probably go with
I would probably go with Ubercart 2.4 with D6. I have the same criteria as you do. My online t-shirt store is pretty basic. www.onfrontstreet.com. I just set up my products, hook it up to Paypal Website Payments Standard and was able to start receiving orders. I installed a discounts module to give my customers some discounts and used various rules to setup my flat rate payment.