By wedranb on

Hi there, I'm a new guy in the Drupal world.

I'm building site for shopping books. Because I'm new to Drupal I don't know what modules should I use? Can you give me some tips?

The store is really small and for now it is only selling about 10 books and I want to create cart but I don't want to users need to login/register for buying . Just adding to cart and processing information via form. Then my client will get info to e-mail and he will call the customer to confirm the order information.

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John_B commented

Start with Drupal Commerce Kickstart.

I built a Drupal book shop using Ubercart, a few years ago.

Drupal will give you way more ease of customisation and flexibiliy than one of the standard Wordpress shopping cart solutions, and will take propoprtionately much more work to learn and to maintain. Cheapest and least flexible of all are the software-as-a-service solution who charge a percentage or monthly fee. IMO services like Big Commerce or bluepark.co.uk in UK or the bookselleing-specialist equivalents work out cheaper (unless you do the work yourself and put no value on your time) than any self-built solution, and have least scope for customisation.

Since it is client work, it is worth mentioning that people who are new to Drupal doing client work leave a trail of unhappy clients (some of them are now my clients). You should at least have the experience to explain to clients the maintenance costs and major upgrade version problems of Drupal (in this case, explain why Drupal 7 will have no upgrade path to Drupal 8), and to understand how to repair a broken site quickly, how to handle development workflow given the problems of config. in database, and the importance of using the APIs and the theming system (rather than working outside them) for customiations. It is wise to start out (as most of us did) accepting that early jobs will make little or no money until one has learned the skills. If you are content to do a few jobs without making money in order to bulid skills, Drupal turns out to be a financially rewarding profession.

Digit Professionals specialising in Drupal, WordPress & CiviCRM support for publishers in non-profit and related sectors

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Jaypan commented

https://drupal.org/node/643758

You can move the thread by editing the original post and choosing 'Post Installation' as the forum.

Thank you.