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Features for a discount products store?

Submitted by 2shortstories on Sun, 12/16/2007 - 14:28
2shortstories
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Our next big project would be a store that sells discount beauty products.

Client mentioned our model site should be "a simple version of drugstore.com"

Some features that we'll like to integrate are listed below, and before we spend some time after the holidays to test out some new contrib modules as well as Alpha8, I figured I'll ask the questions here first:

- Product reviews
5-star review system, display of the stars in catalog view

- Faceted search
accomplished by integrating the Drupal Faceted Search module?

- Display of discount pricing
"Retail: x dollars, Our Price: x dollars"

- Display of product image thumbnail during search
Would be nice to display also price info, and review rating.

- Product recommendation
In either product view or during/after checkout. "If you like this, you might also like these other products".

- Free shipping after a certain amount

- Inventory control
We're not looking to spend money on an external inventory database. I have not tried the contrib inventory module here, what are everyone's experience with this contrib module? How is it organized? Is it possible to manipulate inventory via spreadsheet upload?

Thanks for any input on this!
permalink #1 Sun, 12/16/2007 - 17:23
aswalla

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A few answers for you:

Product Reviews:
I used the userreview module to allow users to review products. I decided on this one rather than the fivestar module because I wanted to allow users to both give a number rating plus text review.

- Display of discount pricing
Use the contemplate module and display your price and the retail price anyway you desire. Add any additional fields you need with the CCK module.

- Display of product image thumbnail during search
Accomplished via theming the search. See http://drupal.org/node/86987 I personally use the views_fastsearch module and theme this view to show the image thumbnails.

permalink #2 Tue, 12/18/2007 - 18:27
2shortstories
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Thanks for the reply aswalla!

For the userreview module, does the rating show up on the catalog pages too, as well as the individual product page?

permalink #3 Tue, 12/18/2007 - 22:53
aswalla

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I'm unsure if that is possible; I know that you can have the rating show up in a teaser listing for a product but the catalog page doesn't use the teaser view, rather this layout is done via custom theming in the template file. It uses the Voting API module and, thinking out loud, there may be a way to grab that rating to show in the catalog page.

Another module to possibly look at as well is nodereview:

http://drupal.org/project/nodereview

Mainly because it allows you to review a node (product) on multiple axes - for instance give a seperate review of each of the features of a product. Haven't tried it yet myself but seems like a nice addition.

permalink #4 Wed, 12/19/2007 - 04:19
zmove
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Display of discount pricing
Use the contemplate module and display your price and the retail price anyway you desire. Add any additional fields you need with the CCK module.

For discount management, how you manage that ? If you create CCK field to put a retail price, ok, you can display it, but this will not be the field that will be added to the cart.