Is Ubercart + Drupal a viable solution for my website?

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Sun, 10/04/2009 - 17:26

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I'm looking for feedback / advice or even someone to point me in a direction / solution, if this is possible to achieve using drupal & ubercart.

I have been reading / looking into the e-commerce / ubercart module for drupal but everywhere I have read / look, I have not been able to find a solution for something I thought would be an ideal feature in e-commerce.

I believe the site I got the idea from is a custom built solution, as I use a firefox extension that detects if a cms is in use and none was found (http://www.signet.net.au/Category/Tapes-Adhesives/3M-Packaging-Tape-Hand...).

What I am wondering is, can i use drupal and ubercart with modules added, to create a product main, with a product sub that displays items like the above link shows, with different quantity breaks?

I understand u can do variations of products say like t-shirts, colours and sizes and add a surcharge, but that would not work for the above as each cost prices would be different.

Also the above if they only have each, they will only show the each price, and if they have just each and bulk, they only show those two fields in the table.

You can also, add quantities into each textfield and it will add all items with a quantity into the shopping cart.

The simple answer I would be looking for, can drupal and ubercart do this at its present state? Or would I have to build a module or better just to build a custom solution?

Help in advance is always appreciated.

Sun, 10/04/2009 - 19:21

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justageek

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you should use ubercart, I tihnk

While I don't completely follow all your needs, you should use Drupal and UC. The example link appears to be a classic example of UC Product Classes.

I understand u can do variations of products say like t-shirts, colours and sizes and add a surcharge, but that would not work for the above as each cost prices would be different.

I don't understand what this means, can you provide more detail. You might need custom coding to implement the bulk buy, single roll, etc, I think, or you might be able to use attributes for this.

Let me just simple say that if you are even considering custom work, then you should start with Drupal and UC, as you are surely 80 to 90 percent done, and your custom work is only needed to add those special, unique features.

Plus, this community is cool!

Sun, 10/04/2009 - 19:38

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Re: you should use ubercart, I tihnk

Basically what I require is exactly like the site above.

If you look at other products, sometimes they only have 1 item and sometimes they have multiple items.

I have read when you add variations to products, for example a t-shirt has small, medium, large, or different colours, you can add how much extra it would be to purchase one of those different sizes or colours, if the price is different to the standard cost you put for the item.

The table on the site in question, (which i could build fully custom) would have cost prices different for each code. Is this possible in drupal + ubercart? I would require to set up the page to look very close to the site above?

The main part is the functions work the same as the site in question.

For example, I can add quantity into each text field and they will all add to the shopping cart.

I have found ubercart, displays a product catalog and one item per screen, but have not found it able to show a product, and then add items to that product to create items in that product to which a customer can use to buy. I guess I would require to modify ubercart to be able to create the above site in question?

Sun, 10/04/2009 - 21:33

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Re: Re: you should use ubercart, I tihnk

I don't think product class is really right for this - as that would create content types for every group of product.

I think you want to look into the views module (although I'm not sure where views support in ubercart is current at and whether you can add something like a qty column - but a little custom coding either php or javascript might be able to achieve this).

First impressions of the problem, I would create a content type for "product group" (not an ubercart product) and then add a node reference to the ubercart product content type that references a product group (you could create a different product class here if not all products are presented this way).

Then there is a module views_attach which will allow you to embed a view of products into the product groups (filtered by the node id of the product group) and I would also combine that with nodereference_url to provide links for admin's to add new items items to these lists.

So this is potentially possible, although its not something you can just turn on and may require a little drupal experience to put the pieces together.

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Sun, 10/04/2009 - 22:47

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