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Nicholas Vahalik

Posted: Apr 23, 2014

Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce Dunning - Part 2

Welcome to another Commerce Module Tuesday! Today we are looking at Commerce Dunning, Part 2. Last week we looked at what a "dunning process" looks like. Today, we're going to look at the Commerce Dunning module and the testing environment that comes with it. This is actually one of the hardest parts of a recurring setup to test, the failures. The module that we are creating here at Commerce Guys makes it very easy to test payment failures and work through all of the emails and touch points that you can set up as part of your dunning management.

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balintk

Posted: Aug 13, 2013

Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce Dunning - Part 1

Welcome to another Commerce Module Tuesday! Today we are looking at Commerce Dunning, something we at Commerce Guys have been working on for awhile. This is part one (on what a Dunning process looks like) in a two part series that we will finish next week with how to test the functionality that we discuss today

What is "Dunning" you ask? Sounds like a "dunce cap" that you might have heard of as a child? You're close! Dunning management (Delinquent User Notification) is the automated process that's kicked off when a charge attempt of a recurring order fails. This process involves periodic customer communication and payment retries.

In today’s video, we are simply going over the Dunning Process. This is an important step towards making Drupal Commerce handle recurring payments, and we’ve tried to make it as straightforward as possible.

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balintk

Posted: Aug 6, 2013

Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce Recurring Framework

Welcome to another Commerce Module Tuesday! Today we are looking at Commerce Recurring Framework, maintained by Pedro Cambra (the screencast is about the new and highly anticipated 2.x branch). We will go through setting up a healthy recurring bill that would have your Commerce Kickstart 2 site sending out $7 toothbrushes once a month.

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Augustin Delaporte

Posted: Jun 18, 2013

Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce Product Add-on

Welcome to another Commerce Module Tuesday! Today we are looking at Commerce Product Add-on, maintained by Matt Robison who is the Vice President of Louisville Web Group. While I was at Drupalcon Portland, I was approached by two different individuals looking to do something that this modules makes very easy: Add a product as a checkbox on the add-to-cart form for another product.

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Posted: Jun 11, 2013

Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce Product URLs

Welcome to another Commerce Module Tuesday! Today we are looking at Commerce Product URLs, maintained by Maciej Zgadzaj who is a senior developer at Commerce Guys. This project almost doesn’t require a video. If you’re running Commerce 1.6 or later, just go download this, enable it, and love yourself for making the world a better place. Actually, enabling the module, by default, doesn’t do anything, but the magic is there. And that’s where the video takes the next step. It shows us how to hack the URL to link directly to specific products.

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(Video and Setup steps after the break.)

Posted: May 14, 2013

Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce Reporting

Welcome to another Commerce Module Tuesday! Today we are looking at Commerce Reporting, maintained by Christophe Van Gysel who interned at Commerce Guys last year and is now interning at Google in the United States (yes, we’re all jealous of Christophe). Get ready for a high impact and extremely useful module, folks. It not only “just works” it takes all of it’s data from the existing database and displays fancy graphs and filterable reports. In other words, even if your store was built on a pre-beta Commerce from 2011, this module would still be able to read your store history.

Christophe had to really jump a number of hurdles to get this module launched last year, not the least of which was a lack of community consensus on how to display graphs from Views 3.x on Drupal 7. So he built the Visualization API which has now eclipsed commerce_reports in terms of active installs. So, as a part of another Commerce Module Tuesday, I invite you to sit back and take a look at another awesome community contributed module that fills a vital role: data mining.

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Posted: May 7, 2013

Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce Checkout Pages

Welcome to another Commerce Module Tuesday! Today we are looking at Commerce Checkout Pages, maintained by Kai Curry from Sundays Energy. This module enhances the checkout process a great deal by making the checkout pages as easy to deal with as the checkout panes. Ever wanted to drag and drop the hard-coded checkout pages? How about create a custom “cart” page that was a part of the checkout process? Think you would like a separate checkout page for terms of service? This module provides all you need to make a custom checkout page possible from within the user interface.

Thankfully, unlike the last Commerce Module Tuesday, we simply need to enable this module to take advantage of it’s features. Note that if you’re after custom checkout panes (the things that show up on the checkout pages) then you should take a look at the Commerce Module Tuesday where we talked about Commerce Extra Panes.

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Posted: Apr 30, 2013

Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce Backoffice

Welcome to another Commerce Module Tuesday! Today we are looking at Commerce Backoffice, maintained by Bojan Živanović from Commerce Guys. This module (and a few dependencies) provides the rich store owner experience that has made Commerce Kickstart 2 so popular. In the video below, you will see the interface and discussion about using this module as a “simplified interface” instead of installing the Commerce Kickstart 2 juggernaut.

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