OSTips - E-Commerce Inside Drupal Made Easy

How would you like to be able to set up an ecommerce platform on your drupal site in less than 60 seconds? You can!

In this video, I want to share with you my little frustration with drupal and drupal e-commerce. It’s really hard to set up! However, there’s a fantastic e-commerce platform called ecwid that allows you to set up your store in no time. Then you can literally have it embedded on your Drupal site in less than 60 seconds. People will never know the difference, because everything stays on your Drupal site!

Let’s check it out.

“Welcome to OSTips from OSTraining. My name is Rod Martin.

I’m here on a brand new installation of Drupal with nothing else on it as you can probably tell.

Click on this link: drupal.org/project/ecwid_shopping_cart

You’ll see that this is exactly what it sounds like: a module for the ecwid shopping cart system. We’re going to:

copy the tar
install the module
enable the module

You’ll notice that there’s a brand new menu up here in the navigation.

click on the ecwid menu item
click setup
Click connect button, (if you already have an ecwid account created)

If you do NOT have an ecwid account created, you can click on the text link below the button and create one now. I happen to have one, so i’m going to:

click connect button
log into my account
click accept

Now my store is completely integrated into my drupal website. You’ll notice in the top bar there’s an ecwid menu as i mentioned

and this is actually my ecwid store on my drupal site. I can see

my sales
my catalog
my marketing
the storefront

There’s my store, right inside my Drupal site!

I can’t imagine an easier way to get a shopping cart into your Drupal site. And everything stays right on your Drupal site.

One of the great things with ecwid is that they’re running a deal right now as well. If you’re watching this in 2020, their business plan is FREE until January of 2021. Now I’m going to let you check that out, because pricing changes so head over to ecwid.com and take a look at what they’re doing there.

Thanks for watching. This has been OStips from OS Training, and I’m Rod Martin.”

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Rod Martin

Rod holds two masters degrees and has been training people how to do "things" for over 25 years. Originally from Australia, he grew up in Canada and now resides just outside Cincinnati, Ohio. He has worked in both the non-profit and for-profit worlds, in small companies and large corporations. His extensive open source experience includes WordPress, Joomla and Drupal and he really knows how to help you get the most out of the system you chose. Rod plays ice hockey a couple of times a week and rides his Goldwing motorcycle pretty much everywhere he can.

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Karina

3 years ago

Hi! The link https://www.ostraining.com/ecwid.com is broken

mikall

Reply to Karina

Thank you, Karina for bringing this to our attention. We have fixed the problem, so the link should work now.

nstocco

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The link is not working yet. I think you should enter an absolute link.

Reply to nstocco

nstocco,

I just clicked on each link in the blog and they both worked. There was never supposed to be an ostraining.com/ecwid link. That was the mistake. http://www.ecwid.com and drupal.org/project/ecwid_shopping_cart are the only correct links for this post.