Website for a raw chocolatier in Brooklyn, NY.
Theme is 100% custom, with many custom blocks and functionality (and lots of jQuery functionality)
Drupal version: 6.x
Modules Included:
- Ubercart
-- Out of Stock
-- Paypal
-- Catalog
-- Shipping
-- Cart Links
- Views
- MailChimp
- CCK
- Analytics
- Image
- ImageUpload
- ImageCache
- Pathauto
- Token
- TinyTinyMCE
This was my first Drupal website, and I have to say that, despite the learning curve and the initial confusion involved in figuring out strategies for developing in Drupal, it was well worth the experience for me, personally, and my client is very pleased with the results. I will be developing with Drupal in the future for sure.
Lovely little site. I have used the drupal e-commerce package in the past and have found it to be a night-mare at best. I have started to play around with the UberCart package and it seems to be a much more complete product. How are you finding it? How is the client finding it? What areas is UberCart weak in? Any insight would be very welcome.
Thanks!
ubercart has really been a pleasure to work with.
it was very simple to set up all of the payment gateways and adding shipping options, and to coordinate all of this with UPS, USPS, etc. the shipping calculator in particular works like a charm.
It was extremely easy to set up the custom theme for the product grids and product detail pages, and it was relatively simple to add lots of custom functionality such as out of stock notification for shoppers, order data CSV export scripts, etc.
A lot of the in-store navigation was totally hard-coded into custom blocks, which was pretty simple given the intuitive and logical organization of the database.
Shortly after launch my client received a large traffic burst from some really good press and the system proved to be very robust.
So yes, I would highly recommend ubercart for a drupal installation.
The only things that I found bothersome were 1.) trying to remove the catalog/category views from the store (I would rather just list popular or featured products from each category under a heading, then to have to navigate to a page simply for selecting a category.) and 2.) setting up gift certificates, coupons, discounts etc., but i'm sure the solution for these is not too difficult.
Thank you for your insight. I have decided to go the UberCart route instead of another Opensource commerce app. I hope all goes as well as you make it sound.
Thanks again.