commercetools
The commercetools module provides a lightweight integration between Drupal and commercetools that works out of the box without much special configuration, providing a full-featured e-commerce solution on your Drupal website.
To get the fully working e-commerce you need to just enter the commercetools credentials in the module settings and that’s it!
With this integration, your website gets a full-featured online store with multi-language, multi-country, multi-currency, multiple stocks, checkout, payments, order management, and all other modern e-commerce features.
All the products, clients, and PII data are stored on the commercetools side, no data is stored permanently on the Drupal side, eliminating the need to store PII data in a special way, and keeping your Drupal database compact and lightweight.
The commercetools data, required to render the product pages, is cached locally on the Drupal side with instant invalidation using commercetools Subscriptions.
Product listings and filters can be integrated into any Drupal webpage using native Drupal Blocks and Layout Builder layouts.
The commercetools module includes a set of UI helpers and demo content to get you started quickly.
Live demo
You can check out a live demo directly in the browser using this link: Open Live Demo »
Just click a button "Launch Sandbox" there, and get the working website.
Also, the module includes a commercetools_demo submodule that demonstrates the full multi-language e-commerce functionality directly on your local setup, without requiring a commercetools account or any other registration.
It provides several commercetools accounts with demo data to demonstrate B2C and B2B types of e-commerce. To test, just open the "Demo" tab in the module settings and deploy the content or decoupled module, or even both at once!
Submodules
The module provides two approaches to render the commercetools data:
Coupled approach: commercetools_content submodule
This approach renders all the data on the backend and deliver a full pre-rendered page to the frontend, providing the best performance for the first page load.
Decoupled approach commercetools_decoupled submodule
The decoupled approach provides a frontend rendering feature, where the backend prepares interactive components, that loads the data on the frontend using GraphQL queries.
This approach provides better performance with in-page interactions like browsing the catalog and filtering.
Web Components, provided by this module are implemented independently and can be integrated into any SPA (single-page application) framework: React, Vue.js, Angular, etc.
Installation and configuration
Install it just as a regular Drupal Module, the module requires no dependencies.
Then, the module configuration will be available in the admin panel: Configuration » commercetools (/admin/config/system/commercetools) - you should enter there your commercetools credentials: Client ID, Client secret, Project key, and that's it, it should start working. Register a free commercetools account »
If you have no commercetools credentials yet, just enable the demo submodule to test the functionality out of the box, without any registrations.
The main module commercetools provides the base functionality with no UI, to get the end user UI you should install one of the UI modules: commercetools_content or commercetools_decoupled.
The templates uses Bootstrap classes for design by default, to provide a good looking design out of the box. But Bootstrap dependency is not required, you can easily override the provided templates to use your own design library.
Cache configuration
The module caches the data received from commercetools to improve the site performance. By default the module uses a Drupal cron job to check for changes and invalidate affected cache items.
To invalidate the caches instantly when the data is changed on the commercetools side, we recommend configuring the commercetools Subscription, more details about this are on the Subscriptions tab in the module settings.
Branding Note on "commercetools"
Throughout this module, "commercetools" is intentionally rendered in all lowercase within the UI. This decision aligns with the official branding guidelines of commercetools, which specify their name should appear in lowercase across all partner implementations.