Beginning Drupal 8

Chapter 11 ■ Drupal Modules
Drupal Commerce
If your site has any element of e-commerce (such as selling physical items like shirts or selling virtual items
like subscriptions), then there are two primary options: Ubercart, which is the granddaddy of commerce
modules in Drupal, or Drupal Commerce. Both solutions provide world-class commerce capabilities and are
the de facto standards for conducting e-commerce on a Drupal site.
Summary
In this chapter you learned how to significantly enhance the functionality of your Drupal website through
the use of contributed modules. There are literally thousands of free modules to select from, meaning
that if there’s something you want to do with your Drupal site, there is likely a module that provides the
functionality that you need. Coming up next we will look at modules and how they are constructed.
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