It is no secret that e-commerce is slowly growing its market share – online orders already account to more than 9% of total retail sales, according to Business Insider. Therefore, an idea of creating a website or a mobile app to sell goods or services is clear and growing more urgent. With a variety of options, let’s consider what doors Drupal opens.
Drupal for eCommerce
Although development of an ecommerce store with the use of Drupal can be followed by certain difficulties (which can be easily avoided when entrusting software developing to a professional vendor), Drupal functionality allows creating decent websites/apps and turning their visitors into buyers. Ecommerce website with Drupal Commerce Drupal Commerce is a tool to build e-commerce websites and applications. It is open-source software that augments Drupal content management system (CMS). Thus, within Drupal-based websites, Drupal Commerce presents products that can be purchased. Its functionality offers handy admin panel, custom page layout, catalogue and search options, buyer’s profile, cart, additional modules to add discounts, taxes and etc.
Advantages
E-commerce mobile app with DrupalGap
According to BI Intelligence, mobile-commerce is expected to reach $284 billion or 45% of the total U.S. e-commerce market by 2020, which makes m-commerce of much interest with a big potential to become a major channel for shopping. With the total number of Drupal-based websites amounting to 1,185,922 as of June 4, 2017, building custom mobile apps for Android and iOS devices to communicate with Drupal websites or turning your Drupal Commerce site into a native app becomes of much interest [3]. This job is well done by DrupalGap, an open source mobile application development kit for Drupal-based websites. Advantages
With the multiple opportunities that Drupal offers, it can be a good choice for a company that intends to develop and forge ahead. Drupal Commerce offers very customized product pages and allows for handling more than 10,000 products. Its being an open source provides control over the code and gives you, literally, a free hand when changes are required. The use of DrupalGap simplifies turning your Drupal e-Commerce site into a mobile app with all that it implies. However, if you are a small business with no intention to expand then going for a proprietary system with a quick standard solution could be what your business actually needs.
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