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Selling Customizable Products with Ubercart

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24Oct2008
We were shortsighted. I wish we'd been thinking more along this line from the beginning. Who knows what sort of e-commerce situations Ubercart would be able to handle now if we had geared it toward customizable products from the get go? Drupal really is the perfect CMS to handle this sort of e-commerce need... These thoughts are provoked by a recent German store, Leinwandfoto Discount, that blew me away when I saw its live site listing this morning. Using Drupal and Ubercart, the development team created a site where users can upload photos that can be turned into canvas prints for their living room walls for a small fee. Geez, I'd love to have the Uberkid on my wall. Check out their site and give these guys some feedback if you have a minute. Not only did they build a great site, but they also gave the code back to the community in the form of a couple new and reworked contributions. Way to go! They're not alone in the innovation, though. A recently launched site by popular Milenio, Fotos Chic, also sells prints of photos on Ubercart. Earlier this year, Lullabot sponsored development of the first UC Node Checkout module that's getting plenty of use to help folks build customized product forms. You can demo this one first hand by signing up to learn more about Ubercart at Do It With Drupal. Other sites are building full user marketplaces and affiliate programs using contributed modules that I only wish I had the time to play with and hack on. C'est la vie. I can at least keep plugging away on the core. Here's to development in community.
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#1 Thanks Ryan for the links in

Submitted by Lucas Koorneef (not verified) on Mon, 01/12/2009 - 01:39.

Thanks Ryan for the links in this post. I can use the links provided to convince my client that what he wants is possible with Drupal + UC.

Much appreciated,
Lucas

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#2 Hi We have a canvas prints

Submitted by Canvas Prints (not verified) on Sat, 03/14/2009 - 07:14.

Hi

We have a canvas prints online shop, where the customer can upload an image, photo or picture & have it printed onto wall canvas. http://www.photoimageart.co.uk/. We tried using ubercart with drupal at first but we just couldn't get it to work the way we wanted. We needed a number of options, effects options with images, and an image upload process, and our coders worked for quite a while with drupal & just couldn't get it working - we opted for cubecart in the end & it does the job fantastically.

We still use drupal for the content, and find it to be a fantastic content management system.

Cheers

Steve

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#3 Hi, can you explain how do

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on Thu, 11/19/2009 - 05:09.

Hi, can you explain how do you do the Fotos Chic site?
I have to do a site like yours.
How to create the photo albums?, with catalogs?
How to upload photos to the albums? Any one or all together? If you upload them all together, how do you do?

Thank's for all and very good work.

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