This manual is about e-Commerce 4. For later versions, see outdated e-Commerce's handbook on Drupal's handbooks area.
The e-Commerce package is a large and growing collection of modules used to drive a full-fledged e-Commerce system from within Drupal. The design for this project was to create an extensible framework such that the payment methods, shipping methods, and product types are built upon a pluggable architecture.
The store can be configured so that users can make a one-time transaction, or they can create an user profile and have their shipping and billing information retained from order to order, speeding up the checkout process next time they return.
Also, a workflow system is being built for transactions and payment status, allowing you to easily send shipping notifications, print invoices and update or manually create new orders.
You can: