Drupal Online Donations and Online Bookstore
July 16, 2009 - 2:49am
No reason for multi-site here
IMO, if you are building A church site then by its very nature it calls for ONE site!
There is no technical reason why one site can't handle these two functions, and many more. However, an even more compelling argument is what your users expect. No one is going to understand why these functions would be handled by multiple sites.
Hope this helps,
Curt
July 16, 2009 - 11:15am
True - User experience should be universal
Curt,
Thanks for the response. I agree that the user experience should be similar across the whole site.
I was thinking about multisite from a backend perspective. The UI / theme would be very similar between the main site and Bookstore. If possible the user login / password would be the same for both sections of the site.
As User Experience goes, the donation process should be rather different than a purchase from the Bookstore. For example, the buttons terminology and receipt should be different. I am exploring whether "Conditional Actions" can handle this. I do not want the donation process to feel like a store purchase like I see at some ministry sites.
I also do not want the user's "Recent Orders" tab to display bookstore purchases and donations. These would have to be different reports. Similarly the bookstore staff should not have access to the donation information.
I am new to Ubercart so I still in the discovery phase of this project. Any of your input is helpful.
Thanks
I am building out a church site that will have online donations and an online bookstore. The main set up looks straightforward using Ubercart for the Bookstore and the new Ubercart Donations modules by rszrama for online donations. Thsi would be my first Ubercart site.
My question is whether both of these functions should be on the same Drupal single site install or if I should do a multisite. I do not like the idea of donation and bookstore order history being in the same place. I am sure I could create some custom reports to make them separate reports to the end user. From people who have use this functionality, what are the pros and cons of each set up?
Eventually we might add paid event registrations too. I looked at CivicRM, but it looks very heavy and doesn't have our payment gateway supported yet (Payflow Pro).
Thanks