Magento setting up for Vitamins store

Magento becomes more and more popular among the software solutions for e-commerce business. Our last customer decided to use it for the shop selling vitamins and other stuff that is really helpful in improving our shape (either gaining weight and muscles or loosing weight).

The task of Oxagile team was to apply the design for Magento (done by some other company) and to add some small improvement features to the functionality. Most of the features were rather standard and helped to make the shop a bit more user friendly. For example, Oxagile PHP developer has added a manufacturer filtering combo box to the left navigation menu. As the site sells the products of many different manufactures the common list of them in the left menu may be very long and will disfigure the design concept. With a combo box it’s much more convenient as the potential buyer can easily select the producer on any page and the system will show the products of this particular manufacture.

Some common Drupal E-commerce questions

After our Oxagile e-commerce department started to provide its services using Drupal and Ubercart we have received more than a hundred of different questions that were not about our services but about using Drupal for e-commerce in general. Here are some of the most common:
Q: My site is using the Drupal CMS, should I use only Drupal for e-commerce.
A: No, you are not limited to Drupal or Ubercart. But as you use Drupal for you site it can be easier to set up the additional module of the same CMS than to install additional system. Also it’s easier to manage the site and e-commerce shop using one admin panel.

Q: What is better to choose - Drupal or eCommerce modules for a Drupal-based website?
A: Both variants have advantages and disadvantages. Here are only some of them.

• Ubercart advantages: easier scalable, more convenient user interface
• eCommerce advantages: more open-ended, more additional options for contributed modules
• Ubercart disadvantages: some areas are difficult to customize, less modules available
• eCommerce disadvantages: user interface is not user-friendly and even confusing in some areas

It’s also based on the type of your site and your business goals, terms and budget. So, you can communicate with one of the Oxagile project managers to get the appropriate advice.

Q: When we have moved company’s Drupal site to a new hosting Ubercart started to work improperly. How to solve this problem? Should we set up the other eCommerce solution?
A: Unfortunately, this situation is rather common but it’s almost impossible to give standard advice that will work for every site and every type of hosting. One of the developers from our e-commerce team can investigate the problem and suggest you some variants of the solution.