Working with
Craft Commerce
@madebyshape
@madebymayo
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Small / Medium
Start Ups
Protein Powder, Craft Beer, Decorating, Womens Fashion, Fitnesss Wear,
Preserves & Jams, Health, Mens Fashion, Toxic Free Cosmetics
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Challenge...
Convincing clients to use a not so well known and a
relatively new eCommerce platform
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Demos
Feature List
Bene ts
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We can extend and plug easily
(More on this later...)
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But, as developers we liked...
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Gateway settings in con g (+Others)
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Single checkout and custom data
Add to cart, update cart, update delivery & billing etc
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Highly custom delivery options
Although confusing at first (But clients love this customisability)
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Inactive / Active Carts
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Custom Order Statuses & Emails
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Addresses get created and linked to users (Email address) on checkout
(And the same address fields for account, billing & delivery!)
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“It’s better than CartThrob”
Adam Ascroft, 2017
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A few problems a long the way...
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Lack of 3rd Party Integration (At the moment...)
Most enquiries ask for integration with full lment
applications, or delivery applications.
Currently none exist, or are beta.
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Promotions can’t be PER variant
Making discounts on a black pair of jeans di cult
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Can’t reorder products
It would be good if products acted like structure entries
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Lack of refund features
Always been missing (Unless using Shopify or Magento)
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Discounts & Sales are limited
There aren’t many coupon options e.g. Buy X get X
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Extend, Extend, Extend...
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Extending Commerce helps get missing features, back
Wishlists
Shortlist
Sprout Lists
Abandonded Carts
Abandoned Cart Recovery
Accounts
Social Login
Products
Tag Manager
Category Sources
Popular Products
Development
Maintenance
Dashboard
Commerce Widgets (Shameless plug)
One Dashboard
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Category Sources
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Framework
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What we have preset...
Product Fields / Types
Order Statuses
Member Groups
SEO
Globals
Noti cations
Order PDF’s
Macros
Checkout
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Same product, basket & checkout
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Product Fields / Types
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Noti cations / Globals
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Macros
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Bene ts
- Development time reduced
- Bug and UX xes are xed across all projects
- Commerce CMS feels the ‘same’ between projects
- Continuously improve for ALL clients (If paying support)
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Downsides
- Limited to basket / checkout features
- Design is limited
- Updating elds etc between ‘Bug Fixes’ can be messy
- A lot of ‘Up front’ development
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Case Study
Crafty Beer Cans
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Challenges
- Mixed Cases / Singular / Packs
- Stock Control
- Age Veri cation
- MailChimp Integration
- Filter
- Discounts
- Can Club / Membership