Transform Your User Experience with Drupal Ecommerce

Drupal is among the most widely used open-source content management systems around, hanging out with the likes of WordPress and Joomla. While it doesn’t always receive praise as being the most user-friendly (although that is changing), no one can deny the sheer flexibility it allows for customization and extensibility.

With its thriving community of 45,000+ developers and strategic modernization initiatives, Drupal is only getting better. In fact, Drupal is quite possibly one of the best options for open source content and e-commerce on the market today.

Like many influential software applications of our time, Drupal got its start from a couple of university students trying to solve a basic problem. This was back in 2000.

The students, Dries Buytaert and Hans Snijde, needed a way to communicate through an internal network within the University of Antwerp dorms. Although it wasn’t called Drupal at the time, the message board they created was the first iteration of what would eventually become Drupal. 

Why Use Drupal?

There are a number of excellent reasons why Drupal might just be the best platform for your online store to grow with.

1. Open source for complete control.

Drupal is open-source software meaning anyone can use it and adapt its code for any reason whatsoever. There are no licensing fees or anything like that; it literally is yours to do with what you please. 

2. A world of support at your fingertips.

The very nature of Drupal is attractive to software developers. Open source means that there are no limitations to use the platform, so it’s easy and inexpensive to jump in and try.

3. Modern framework for modern applications.

Even though the community helping to build Drupal is massive, Drupal does have an effective system in place for steering development towards various strategic initiatives. These initiatives are what drives the continuous modernization of the platform.

Perhaps the biggest and most important of these strategic initiatives is the API-First initiative.

4. Scales with your business.

Scalability is an important concept that any online business should always be aware of. It’s the ideal that as business grows, the time and resources it takes to handle that growth is minimal. Scalability is being able to handle the growth effectively.

5. Security and stability at its finest.

Drupal is considered to be very secure software. It’s trusted by governments, educational institutions, media outlets, large retailers, and more. 

6. Creating ambitious digital experiences across multiple channels.

If you visit drupal.org right now, you’ll see Drupal summed up in the first two sentences on the homepage.

7. Ideal for experience-led e-commerce.

And finally, we get to e-commerce. Drupal can actually be your content platform AND your e-commerce platform. This is a pretty big deal because often you’re stuck with one or the other. But not here, through Drupal’s contributor module library, there are a number of options for extending Drupal’s functionality to include e-commerce (more on this below). And the options available are really good, full-fledged, complex e-commerce solutions.

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