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Ubercart is the defacto e-commerce module for Drupal 6. Is it being actively developed for Drupal 7 and should I expect it to be well maintained? Or is there another up-and-coming module that should be considered?

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The new solution for Drupal 7 is Drupal Commerce, which has active Drupal 7 development. Ryan Szrama is the main developer and he details a lot of the progress on his blog.

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Yep. The project lead (Ryan) the Ubercart project had creative and project differences with the owners of the Ubercart trademark so a new project leveraging the new D7 features was born. It will kick butt. – Dave Reid Mar 2 '11 at 20:54
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Drupal Commerce seems to be the e-commerce solution to which the drop is moving... Ubercart will still be maintained for a while, and it will work in D7, but I would only suggest using it if you are migrating an Ubercart-enabled site from D6-D7 and want to avoid doing the work of rebuilding your entire storefront. – geerlingguy Mar 2 '11 at 20:55
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I am working on a project in Commerce at the moment. It has a bit of a conceptual learning curve, but that's mostly around Drupal 7 as opposed to what Commerce itself is doing. It seems to have huge potential and I'm excitedly updating from Git every day. – cam8001 Mar 25 '11 at 3:37
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There has been a whole lot of talk about Drupal Commerce, but it is definitely not ready to supercede ubercart. It has a lot of potential, but when you have to manually create not only the product entity but the product display node for every single product it automatically becomes a non-starter for all but the most technical of users. I have heard rumors of some potential solutions for this in the works. But until they get that solved and mainstreamed there is no way I would recommend it for anyone as a developer. – pthurmond Apr 23 '12 at 3:05
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Drupal Commerce is the way to go for Drupal 7 ecommerce. Documentation, forums, and a blog for the module are at http://www.drupalcommerce.org/.

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This depends on the products that you wish to sell.

If selling fabric by the metre, gold by the square foot, anything with complex size/colour options then you may need features not available in Ubercart/Drupal Commerce. The same goes for payment gateways and shipping - sometimes you will need an industrial strength ecommerce setup.

With this in mind you may want to check out:

http://drupal.org/project/magento

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combining two large complicated PHP content frameworks... what could possibly go wrong? :) I'm hoping Drupal Commerce is good, though the website is currently dead... – Anentropic May 23 '11 at 14:35
That made me laugh! Problem is that there really is a lot to putting a shop together if you want to do more than sell a limited range of simple stuff, not that I am knocking new ecommerce systems. – Mathew May 23 '11 at 16:03
Isn't there any module current for Drupal commerce that let's you sell by meter, square meter etc? – john Sep 20 '11 at 3:36
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Commerce for Drupal 7 just moved to 1.0 stable. I'm currently using it for a project and it turns out to work very well. I personally can't recommend magento, since I've made some very bad experiences.

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Keep in mind Ubercart is still getting ported to Drupal 7. http://drupal.org/project/ubercart

But i would highly recommend checking out Drupal Commerce if you want to use features like the entity API; cleaner integration with the rules module, a beautiful views integrated checkout page, a streamlined feeds import workflow, etc.

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