Women Empowering Women: The Founder of Lucky Saidaty on Changing the Game for Women in the Middle East

March is Women's History Month; a time for recognizing and reflecting upon the achievements of trailblazing women across the globe. I had the honor of speaking with one such disruptor: Saphia Cadet, Founder and CEO of Lucky Saidaty. Lucky Saidaty is an online community that allows women in the Arab world to connect through its...


Drupal Commerce Marketplace: Filling in the Missing Pieces (Part One)

Overview

When it comes to establishing an online presence for e-commerce, Drupal Commerce is a solid solution. Along with its core e-commerce features (shopping cart, order management, product categories, tax calculation, etc.) it is wired to an array of contributed modules that supplement the e-commerce business requirements: multiple payment gateways (PayPal, bank transfers, credit cards, etc.), shipping services with different carriers (FedEx, USPS, UPS, DHL, etc.), pricing rules, product inventory management, discount rates...


Drupal Commerce

Recently I had the opportunity to setup a bilingual Drupal eCommerce site for a client.  My immediate reaction was to use Drupal Commerce for this project. After all, it's architectural design and codebase are more inline with Drupal's best practices, especially with the use of entities for each product variation (size, color, etc. where each variation would have its unique SKU) whereas UberCart treats each product as a separate node all together. I find the former approach more...

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