Ubercart Shopping Cart
Advantage of Drupal and Ubercart over other shopping cart systems.
- Drupal is very search engine friendly.
- Drupal is a secure application framework.
- Drupal is a powerful and versatile content management system.
- Drupal and the Ubercart project have an ever growing community of developers.
- Drupal has a growing list of themes available for download and consultants offering theming services.
URL optimization, smart .htaccess, and a host of contributed modules to make your site more friendly and noticeable to Google make Drupal the ideal platform for an e-commerce website. After all, if customers never find your site, they probably won't be buying your product!
Developers who are much more security savvy than us have worked hard to eliminate security risks and make it easy for developers to write secure code. This ensures your store's and your customers' information is kept securely and safely out of the reach of hackers and prying eyes.
An e-commerce site needs to do more than just take orders. Customers are growing accustomed to full community sites built around products or product markets. Blogs, forums, product reviews, and articles are becoming essential to attracting and keeping customers in your store. These features are all easy to add and administer to your e-commerce site when it is integrated with a system like Drupal out of the box.
This means anyone looking to start up an e-commerce site using Drupal who needs custom code done will be able to find help. There is a growing market for such work, and companies are even beginning to offer specific Ubercart services to clients.
Whether you have a design on hand that needs to be converted to a store theme or need one made from scratch, you will be able to find the help you need. Furthermore, there is a large list of themes ready made and available for download from Drupal.org.
Why Drupal and Ubercart?
So, why use Drupal and Ubercart for e-commerce? Your customers will find your site more often, experience a secure shopping experience, and hopefully hang around your site longer browsing the content and other customer retention sections of your site.
As a store owner, you can be sure that if someone hasn't already developed a module to do what you want on your site, there will be someone around with the knowledge to get it done.
With Drupal and Ubercart combined it's possible to build:
Deploy product catalogs online, which contain sophisticated tools for storing characteristic details of products sold through your site. Control access to downloadable purchases and enable one-time downloads for authenticated users. Allow users to store products in an online cart prior to purchase, and control the quantities of items being purchased. Accept online payments using Drupal's self-checkout features, which offer native integration with major payment processors including PayPal and Authorize.net. |
Configurable shipping and billing addresses allow users. Create records of purchase sent out as emails, and store receipts as part of user's accounts. Manage paid advertising throughout your site on a section by section basis. Ensure content appears at the top of search results through effective search engine optimization tools. |