It’s easy to start an eCommerce website, but it’s most assuredly not simple to create a financially successful online store. At Drupal Partners, our Drupal eCommerce development team knows what it takes to create and grow an eCommerce website. And that success is built on Drupal Commerce.
As an industry, eCommerce is booming. The first eCommerce site was launched in 1992 – Years later, there are over 24 million online stores. It’s projected that online sales will increase by up to 45% in 2016, reaching a total of $327 billion in revenue. And with the aging of Millennials and Post-Millennials, this number is going grow at a blinding pace.
And one of the big drivers of this eCommerce growth: Open source eCommerce platforms like Drupal Commerce.
According to Drupal.org, there are over 64,000 Drupal Commerce sites. And a large number of these sites are in the top 10K/100K of the best eCommerce sites online. Since its launch in Drupal 6, Drupal Commerce has seen mass open source adoption and is the best known commerce solution for Drupal. We solely recommend it to our eCommerce Clients. Check out our Drupal Commerce Case Study for ROI and business proof.
Drupal Commerce is most used by the Business and Retail Industries. Education and Health & Wellness sites are also successfully using Drupal Commerce to power their online carts.
Based on Alexa rankings, these are the top sites (As of Jan, 2016) running Drupal Commerce:
1. motorola.com 2. greatist.com 3. unfollowers.com 4. yourtango.com
Each of these has a great Drupal eCommerce portal! Want more? Here are sites running on Drupal Commerce.
Our choice for developing a Drupal eCommerce website is Drupal Commerce. However, there are other open source options that integrate well with Drupal. Each platform has pros/cons, but rest assured that our team of Drupal Developers help our customers make the best decision.
Drupal Commerce
The most customizable and popular Drupal eCommerce platform.
Ubercart
The fastest and cheapest way to get your ecommerce store up and running.
Custom eCommerce Sites
Extremely costly to build and hard to scale.
In order to have a successful eCommerce store in Drupal, you need to have the right shopping cart. The most popular are Drupal Commerce and Ubercart. Here’s how each shopping cart compares to the other.
| Drupal Commerce | Ubercart | Custom Built | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $ | $ | $$$ |
| Scalability | Highly | Medium | Depends |
| Customizable | Highly | Medium | Depends |
| SEO | Very friendly | Very friendly | Depends |
| Ease Of Use | Friendly | Friendly | Depends |
| #Available Plug-Ins | Several | Some | Few |
| Architecture | Superior | Regular | Inferior |
| Distribution | Yes | No | No |
| Community Support | Best | Ok | None |
| Available Themes | Many | Few | None |
| Recommended: | Yes | No | No |
Want more info? Check out our Drupal Commerce Vs. Ubercart post.
Building a fantastic shopping cart experience is a must in order to be successful. However, it doesn’t have to break the bank. Creating your shopping cart with Drupal Commerce allows you to remain financially viable, while still keeping your site scalable.
If you’re creating your eCommerce website from scratch, here’s roughly what you can expect to spend:
| Basic Drupal Commerce Website Cost: $20k-$40K | Custom Drupal Commerce Website Cost: $50K-$100K |
|---|---|
| Less than 6000 SKU’s | More than 6000 SKU’s |
| Latest version of Drupal Commerce | Advanced SEO |
| Install a theme | Inventory system or POS integration |
| Simple design implementation | Multilingual store |
| Transactional email creation | Custom shopping cart designs |
| Integrate payment processor (Authorize.net) | Custom images |
| Alternative payment methods (PayPal, Amazon, Google) | One page checkout |
| SSL implementation | Wholesale/partners option |
| Product and category setup and configuration | Advanced reviews |
| No back office system integrations | Auto complete search |
| Testing | Registry |
| Basic shipping & tax configuration | Advanced shipping |
| Internal quality assurance (QA) | Blog and social media integration |
| - | Back office system integrations |
| - | Internal quality assurance (QA) |
| - | Code documentation |
| - | Warranty & Support |
| - | Data migration |
On WooCommerce but want to move to Drupal? Currently using Ubercart but want to get the most our of your store? Then it’s time to migrate to Drupal Commerce.
| Features | Migrating To Drupal Commerce |
|---|---|
| Up to 1000 products (basic shopping cart) | $20K |
| Custom UI/UX design | $10K |
| Multi-platform selling (Ex: Google, eBay, Amazon) | $5K |
| Accounting Integration (Ex: QuickBooks) | $3K |
| Predictive search | $3K |
| Tax calculations | $3K |
| Automated reviews | $3K |
| Email integration | $2K |
| Shipping integration (Ex: UPS, FedEx, etc.) | $5K |
| Other Features | ~$3K/Feature |
Developing a Drupal Commerce site or migrating to Drupal Commerce doesn’t happen overnight. Our team of Drupal Commerce Developers get you up and running quick. However, good things take time.
| Type Of Build | Timeline |
|---|---|
| Migrating to Drupal Commerce | 3 months |
| Developing new Drupal Commerce website | 4-6 months |
| Drupal Commerce + mobile app | 6 months |
| Advance eCommerce site creation | Contact us for quote |
Our Drupal e-commerce developers have been crafting custom shops, carts and payment systems for the past 5 years. We love the ability Drupal gives us to make a great shopping experience a reality. And that reality usually means Drupal Commerce.
Drupal Commerce is an open source software that integrates commerce, content and community, creating the most engaging shopping cart available. Drupal Commerce is content driven, extremely flexible and ridiculously extensible. Our Drupal Commerce Developers have transformed how our customers think about and use their shopping cart, increasing sales and proving ROI.
We take the headache and guesswork out of migrating from Ubercart to Drupal Commerce. Our Drupal Commerce Developers ensure that all data, images, prices and logic successfully migrate to Drupal Commerce. Learn more by reading, “Ubercart Vs Drupal Commerce.”
New customers always ask, “How can we reduce our shopping cart abandonment?” Because we love our customers, we created a propriety, in-house tool that answers the where/when/why of abandoned shopping carts. Our customers love it.
We make sure that Drupal Commerce is giving you accurate and actionable analytics. We’ve also created a custom e-Commerce analytics tool. Google Analytics works great with Drupal Commerce, but we’ve crafted our own tool to help with the analytics job.
Using Drupal Commerce, we’ve been able to increase sales and decrease shopping cart abandonment. Here are a few of our happy clients.
We overhauled their Drupal Order Management System and integrated QuickBooks Enterprise.
We redesigned their e-Commerce portal and integrated a comprehensive database, increasing organic traffic and sales.
We customized their entire eCommerce tracking portal, enabling client to make data-based decisions.
From retail to entertainment, we’ve created fantastic, high-converting Drupal Commerce sites. Below are all the resources you’ll need to learn about our happy clients and Drupal Commerce!
Drupal Commerce eBook
Drupal Commerce White Paper
Drupal Commerce Case Study
