Drupal CMS e-Commerce Module Basics

Regular e-commerce shopping carts work fine if the functionality of the store site is limited to listing products, allowing customers to purchase them, accepting credit card payments, and all of the other e-commerce features offered by these shopping cart solutions. But what if you also want to support collaborative editing of content, community forums, and other capabilities that could help increase traffic to your site, but are usually only found in content management systems (CMSs)? Is it possible to combine the best of both worlds — shopping carts and CMSs?

Fortunately, the answer is yes, if you choose a world-class CMS such as Drupal as a foundation for your site. All of the functionality of Drupal is organized into modules, some of which are built into any initial installation (known as "core" modules — some of which are required for Drupal to function). There are even more third-party modules created by outside developers, and most of those are made freely available.

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