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Drupal Commerce is what we do

Drupal Commerce is our bread and butter

Rather than spreading ourselves thin, we believe that focusing our expertise allows us to provide you with the highest level of support. That’s why our range of services all centre around providing excellence with Drupal Commerce.

Drupal is primarily a content management system (CMS), but it's also much more than that. It's a fully-fledged framework for building websites.

What does this mean?

This means that Drupal can be used to build pretty much any website you can imagine. It has excellent out-of-the-box features such as:

  • Easy content authoring
  • Reliable performance
  • Excellent security

Drupal is trusted by major organisations across the globe – take a look for yourself.

An active community

Drupal has an active community of developers working together to achieve a common goal: building great websites!

Beyond the features that are included in Drupal Core, there are thousands of contributed modules that are free to download and use on your website. These are supported by the community, which means there are always people working to fix potential bugs. And you can rest easy knowing that all contributed modules are covered by the Drupal security advisory policy.

It's Free!

Drupal is open source, which means it can be downloaded, used, worked on and shared by anyone. Many other web frameworks are closed source (i.e. the developers of the framework maintain ownership of the code), which means that you can never ‘own’ your website and are at the mercy of whatever subscription fees they choose to charge you.

Drupal is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). There are no licensing fees, ever. Drupal will always be free.

At its core, Drupal Commerce is a set of contributed modules built for Drupal.

It's a framework on which to build the functionality your store needs, whatever you're selling. It enforces strict development standards that ensure things are built correctly and in a way that leverages the best parts of Drupal for maximum flexibility.

Benefits include:

  • Robust payment API integrating 100+ payment gateways
  • Tax calculation and VAT support
  • Dynamic product pages with one or more variations
  • Promotions with multiple offer types, conditions and coupon support

It's extensible

Because Drupal Commerce is a framework rather than an out-of-the-box solution, it can be modified to meet your needs. There are plenty of additional contributed modules that can be plugged straight in to enhance functionality.

And don’t forget, if there’s something you need that doesn't already exist, we can build it for you!

Drupal is constantly evolving to keep up with best practices. Inevitably, this means that breaking changes are occasionally needed to keep the software current. In order to do this without disrupting everyone's websites, a new major version of Drupal is released.

The following versions of Drupal are currently supported:

  • Drupal 7 (End of Life November 2022)
  • Drupal 8 (End of Life November 2021)
  • Drupal 9

Why is Drupal 7 end-of-life after Drupal 8?

Originally, Drupal 7’s end-of-life was set to be November 2021. Due to COVID-19, the support window has been extended for an additional year to allow people time to upgrade.

Drupal 8’s end-of-life could not be extended because it is now built on top of the Symfony Framework, which is not having its own end-of-life extended.

Upgrading

The upgrade path from Drupal 8 to 9 is fairly straightforward and will generally go off without a hitch. However, upgrading from Drupal 7 to 8 or 9 is an entirely different beast. Because there were such substantial changes made to modernise Drupal 7, the only way to upgrade is to rebuild in Drupal 8/9 and migrate your website content into the new system.

We're the Drupal Commerce specialists and can’t wait to show you what's possible.

Why choose Drupal Commerce?

Drupal + Drupal Commerce is a formidable combination. Drupal offers ultimate flexibility that is unparalleled by the competition, which means it can quite literally be used to build anything.

Great for content marketing

In recent years, Google has placed content marketing (supporting products with rich content) front and centre. Drupal handles this exceptionally well because it is a best-in-class content management system with a powerful eCcommerce system. Trying to bolt this sort of functionality onto a dedicated ecommerce platform such as Magento can be agonising. And, quite frankly, why go to the hassle when Drupal does it so well?

Embracing individuality

Rather than just giving you a standard template ecommerce store, Drupal Commerce provides you with the tools to build precisely what you need. Not only does this give you whatever functionality you need to sell effectively, it allows you to faithfully represent your brand online.

You can use Drupal Commerce to sell pretty much anything, any way you want…

Your needs are our blueprints

We have years of experience curating sites around our customer’s needs. So, whether you know exactly what you want or need a little guidance, we are here to advise, and we’ll build your site to fit.

Normally, this sort of flexibility only comes from a custom build, which comes with a host of associated costs. With Drupal Commerce, you get all the advantages of a powerful open source platform without limitations and without the inflated price.

There's no licensing fees

This means that your site is yours to do with as you please. You're not locked in to paying monthly fees or commission on sales, as you would with platforms like Shopify.

Drupal Commerce hosting

To ensure that your site is at optimal functionality, we offer our enterprise-level hosting to all of our clients.

With us, your site will see class-leading performance with hosting that can support any level of traffic. We manage all of our servers using Docker, which means your site runs on various micro services that can be replicated to scale up at the press of a button.

We'll also set you up with a basic package on Cloudflare, which provides distributed denial of service (DDoS), attack mitigation and a global content delivery network (CDN).

We're here to support you

To make life as easy for you as possible, we can be your single point of contact for all your website's needs. Our Global Project Team is always ready to help with anything you need.

Ready to see how we do it?

Over many years, Devware has developed an extremely lean and effective approach to designing, building, testing and maintaining Drupal Commerce solutions that make you stand out against growing online competition.

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