By default, Commerce Kickstart sets your store administration username and password to “admin.”
Maintaining security for your ecommerce store should be top priority. Changing your username and password to something more secure is highly recommended.
When your customer checks out, Drupal Commerce will send an HTML formatted email with all of the order details.
We call these “Transactional Messages” and offer a user-friendly editing interface.
Commerce Kickstart offers two ways to make this site feel unique.
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The product catalog can be created using built-in menu and category functionality. Take a look at your main menu to get started.
Product Variations are how your customers distinguish between (for example) the color or sizes that are available per-product.
Each attribute is an entity field. Taxonomy fields are the most robust way of adding variations.
The products are actually groups of product variations. The variations determine prices and specific product information.
Drupal Commerce adds the logic to your product to choose a default variation. There’s a lot going on here, but that’s why we created a comprehensive
Product images can be
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Flat-rate shipping is setup by default. For other, more advanced shipping methods, we recommend installing one of the shipping method modules for a service like UPS, etc.
Commerce allows you to highly customize the checkout process into multiple steps or even all on one page.
In order for your store to accept payments, you will need to choose a payment gateway like Paypal or use a third-party system like Authorize.net.
If you go to the promotions page, you can add, enable, disable and view discounts and coupons that are designed for your store.
Lots of analytics and controls are made available right there on the screen. Go crazy and drive sales through the roof!
Drupal Commerce handles multiple currencies easily. You can change the currency for your store below, or watch a video about how to really work with multiple currencies using the Commerce Multicurrency module.
Learn how to use multiple currencies in Commerce Kickstart
The tax system on your site is something you hope is simple, but it rarely turns out to be that simple.
Commerce Kickstart has you covered with flat taxes (VAT or Sales Taxes) that can be applied to all products, or conditionally applied based on your customer’s location.
Content Types help you organize different kinds of content that you can put on your site.
Most notably, you could create Blog Posts, Ad Pushes, Slideshow, and simply Pages.
You can create your own with a unique set of fields and use something like Views to give the functionality you expect.
Similar to the content type discussion, you can create pages, slideshows, blog posts, and many other non-product related items by simply going to the “Add Content” area.
Additional functionality is mostly limited by your imagination, take a look at Drupal 7’s module list of thousands of options for inspiration.
Learn about how to add Content
The social links that come pre-defined in the Kickstart demo are simply an HTML block that can be edited to include your links and the CSS could be modified to include custom icons.
To Edit the block, simply hover over it, click the gear, and then click “Configure.”
Commerce Kickstart ships with the fantastic Connector module ready to start allowing users to login using Twitter, Facebook and other accounts.
There's a few technical details you need to work out to offer this functionality, so be sure to read through the entire documentation page
Almost all stores have a nice rotating slideshow there on the front page to push specials and other kinds of information. Commerce Kickstart comes with a functional slideshow feature that is easy to use.
There is no denying that performance is one of the most critical pieces to a successful online presence.
Google ranks faster sites higher, your customers will stay more engaged, and you will enjoy working on your site if you follow a couple of simple steps to make your site more performant.
By using Drupal, you have already chosen to build on a very stable and security-focused open source platform.
Working with security in Drupal Commerce is particularly important because we are asking customers to create an account for every purchase. Learn about the best practices in our documentation article.
Learn Drupal security best practices
Sometimes you need to turn your store “off.” For example, Apple frequently takes down its store when launching new products.
The maintenance mode is recommended when making major changes (like going live) so you can fix problems that arise before your customers see them.
There are a great many security issues involved when taking someone’s money.
The best way to secure all of the sensitive http traffic is to encrypt with a trusted source. Remember! The best (and easiest) way to setup your site is make sure your entire site is https://, not just checkout.