As an administrator, you need to configure the various sections of your Drupal website to ensure that it will synchronize your products, services, and users, while also ensuring that your website displays those items in the desired fashion. Understanding your configuration settings and where to find them will help you set up your commerce website properly. Here, we discuss the various commerce configuration settings:
You can access the settings for each of the previous items by completing the following steps:
Sign in to your Drupal website as an administrator.
Go to Commerce > Configuration.
Click the specific configuration link.
Make your changes.
Click Save or Save configuration.
Checkout settings
Checkout settings control the flow of the checkout process for your users. You can add custom checkout flows with development work.
Use AJAX: Selecting this checkbox changes the checkout flow into a single page application.
Allow guest checkout: Selecting this checkbox enables customers to check out as guests, without creating an account.
Validate saved addresses: If enabled, this setting will validate addresses when saved on the account page. When the checkbox is selected, you may also customize Saved address validation review text and Saved address validation failed text.
Validate billing addresses: If enabled, this setting will validate addresses when saved on the account page. When the checkbox is selected, you may also customize Billing address validation review text and Billing address validation failed text.
Validate shipping addresses: If enabled, this setting will validate addresses when saved on the account page. When the checkbox is selected, you may also customize shipping address validation review text and Shipping address validation failed text.
Checkout Flow Plugin: This plugin determines what type of checkout the commerce services use. By default, it is a multi-step process.
SKU settings
SKU settings control the types of SKUs that your commerce website uses. These are added by your commerce solution and synchronized to Drupal. The default types are as follows:
Configurable
Grouped
Simple
Variant
Virtual
Commerce Connector Service settings
Commerce Connector Service settings are described in the Acquia Commerce Manager Drupal module installation, in the Commerce Connector Service settings section.
Currency settings
Use the following currency settings to determine how your currency will display for your products and cart:
ISO currency code: Your currency’s ISO 4217 code.
Currency code position: Determines where your currency’s symbol appears.
A select list for the number of decimal places to show for your currency, from
0to4.
Commerce user settings
Various user settings
Storage type: (required) Determines if your website uses Session storage or Database storage for user sessions.
Use E-Comm Sessions: When this checkbox is selected, customers are anonymous to the website, and use the commerce back end for user sessions.
Customer pages plugin: The plugin used for customer and account management pages.
Synchronize promotions
The Synchronize promotions button on this page manually synchronizes promotion information between your Drupal website and your commerce solution.
Synchronize
This page has two buttons that enable you to manually synchronize data between your Drupal website, and your commerce solution. Clicking either button will attempt to synchronize its respective data, in a queue.
Synchronize Categories: When clicked, categories are updated from your commerce solution synchronously.
Synchronize Products (
async): When clicked, products are updated asynchronously from your commerce solution, in batches. This ensures performance and stability for your Drupal website and your commerce solution.Synchronize Products (sync): When clicked, single products are updated synchronously from your commerce solution.