This session will help us find out the why Waste Management (WM) Information Technology organization has adopted Ubercart and as a tool for redemption. Waste Management, a fortune 200 company, is the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services, collecting approximately 66 million tons of solid waste annually from nearly 20 million residential, municipal, commercial and industrial customers. This session will cover how Ubercart helped WM to leverage the power of Drupal/Ubercart in response to challenging business opportunities.
Are you thinking about adding e-commerce to your site? Are you a developer who wants to build e-commerce sites? If so, this session is for you. We will discuss the basic steps to create an e-commerce site from choosing the right shopping cart software to accepting credit cards to fulfilling orders. There's much more to it then just installing a shopping cart and this session will attempt to discuss all the steps, decisions, and pitfalls beyond just installing and configuring a shopping cart. Users will walk out of this session with a plan for getting to their first sale.
Ubercart is Drupal’s leading e-commerce solution. Combining its power and flexibility with the best of Drupal’s 1000s of modules and your e-commerce solution can achieve greatness.
This session will show some of the critical Ubercart APIs that will help you to develop and deploy your own Ubercart e-commerce solutions.
Key points will include adding items to the cart with uc_cart_add_item(), and writing your own conditions/actions with Ubercart’s CA hooks.
Ubercart is Drupal’s leading e-commerce solution. Combining its power and flexibility with the best of Drupal’s 1000s of modules and your e-commerce solution can achieve greatness.
Problem: Your site visitors don’t always know they’re about to become your customers. They might not know exactly what they are looking for.
A starting point for new Ubercart users and a how-to overview of specific feature use cases.
Will cover installation, basic configuration, and a generalized look at common use cases using the current stable release: Ubercart 2.0 for Drupal 6. Will include a step by step walk-through of creating a product. Will cover briefly some of the versatility and potential of Ubercart.
"The Drop is always moving." And for the past year, the Drop has been moving pretty quickly. Drupal 7 is bringing us many great features and development tools, but it's up to us contributed module developers to make use of them.
Even though the Ubercart developers have been busy working on Ubercart 2.0, we've also been brainstorming on ways to use the new techniques available in Drupal 7 and even D6 that haven't been fully implemented yet. Discussion will center on these plans as well as thinking of even more ideas that we may have missed.
