15 Jul 2026
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Centarro: Let Shoppers Change Their Minds Without Leaving the Cart
Checkout is fragile. Every extra step between "I want this" and "order placed" is an opportunity for a shopper to abandon their cart entirely. And one of the most common moments of hesitation happens when a buyer realizes they added the wrong item to their cart. Maybe it was the wrong format or the wrong bundle. Or, maybe the wrong billing cycle for a donation or subscription.
The fix is simple. Navigate back to the product page, add the correct item, and remove the old one from the cart. But this friction, however small, can cost conversions.
The Commerce Product Alternative module for Drupal Commerce solves this by letting shoppers swap a product variation directly in their cart. One click. No detours.
Cart decisions, by design, shouldn't be final
Shoppers change their minds. Someone adds a hardcover book to their cart, then realizes they want the bundle that also includes the digital download. A new member selects a one-time membership fee, then notices the auto-renewal option is more cost-effective. A donor commits to a single gift, then considers whether a recurring contribution would be better.
In each of these cases, the shopper has already committed to buying something. They're in the cart. They're ready.
Why force them to start over?
15 Jul 2026 3:03pm GMT
Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #561 - The Aaron Winborn Award
Today we are talking about Aaron Winborn, The award named after him, and what winning is like with guests George DeMet & April Sides. We'll also cover Summit as our module of the week.
For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/561
Topics
- Who Was Aaron Winborn
- Award Origin Story
- How Winners Are Chosen
- Why Community Matters
- What Winners Share
- April Learns She Won
- Handcrafted Award Stories
- On Stage Emotions
- After Winning Reflections
- How To Contribute
- Nominations And Makers
- Surprise Award Ideas
- Wrap Up And Contacts
Resources
Guests
April Sides - weekbeforenext George DeMet - palantir.net gdemet
Hosts
Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Ashraf Abed - drupito.com ashrafabed
MOTW Correspondent
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to create a website purpose-built for an event like a Drupal camp, that collects, moderates, and schedules user-submitted sessions, and do all of that within the Drupal CMS installer? There's a site template for that.
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in June 2026 by yours truly
- Versions available: 1.0.0, released yesterday
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- Security and test coverage
- Documentation some in the repo we'll talk about later
- Number of open issues: no open issues, though there are a couple of open issues on the Event Platform Starter, from which Summit was created
- Module features and usage
- We've talked before on this podcast about the Event Platform that grew out of an initiative from the Event Organizers Working Group. The goal is to remove friction for anyone organizing a Drupal camp or similar event in creating a website that sets them up for success
- The Event Platform was created before Recipes were a thing in the Drupal-verse, even though it was initially built in ways that were similar to recipes
- A couple of years ago, I started working on the Event Platform Starter recipe to help spin up a fully-built event website in a single step. That ran into some technical complexities, so it ended up being being a time-saver, but still required a number of manual steps
- As the newer concept of site templates took shape, I could see that the Event Platform ecosystem had the necessary elements to become a site template, in particular a theme and a battle-tested a content architecture
- I ended up needing to decouple the configuration and the functional code that had previously been in Event Platform. The configuration would reside solely in the site template, so the functional code was moved to a new project, Event Platform Helper
- Along the way, there have been a number of significant changes: Canvas integration for a fully customizable homepage, also a set of Canvas components to allow building new, custom layouts, a new, custom cache context, improved management of event information, and more
- Now, you set everything up with a single click in the Drupal CMS installer. There's an open issue to get it into the Drupal CMS installer by default, but today it's just a composer require away
- The repo does also include an AGENTS.md and CONTENT-STRUCTURE.md files, to help human or AI agents who want to work a site built using Summit to understand the initial state of the content architecture it provides, as well as the different logical components and how to troubleshoot them, individually or in combination
15 Jul 2026 12:00pm GMT
BloomIdea: Dynamic Multibanco references in Drupal Commerce: Commerce ifthenpay 3.0 has arrived
In 2018 we released Commerce ifthenpay, the module that brought Multibanco references to Drupal Commerce. Seven years later, we are publishing version 3.0.0: the module's biggest evolution since then, with dynamic Multibanco references generated by the ifthenpay API, MB WAY payment retries and full support for Drupal 10 and 11.
The silent problem of locally generated references
A Multibanco reference has 9 digits, and the classic local generation algorithm reserves only 4 of them for the order number. It works perfectly up to order 9999. Beyond that, the number has to be compressed to fit, and this is where mathematics turns against the store.
Version 2.x mitigated the problem by spreading order numbers across 9000 possible combinations. It sounds like a lot, but the birthday paradox is relentless: around 112 simultaneously open references are enough for a 50% chance that two different orders share exactly the same reference. In a busy store, that means payments that can be matched to the wrong order, or never reconciled at all. Worst of all, the problem is invisible: everything seems to work, until the day a customer pays and their order stays "unpaid".
The solution: references generated by ifthenpay
Version 3.0.0 introduces a new mode on the Multibanco gateway: instead of computing the reference locally, the module requests it from the ifthenpay REST API, using the account's MB Key. The differences are structural:
- The order number is sent in full (up to 25 characters): no truncation, no compression, no collisions;
- Each transaction receives a unique identifier, and the payment confirmation is validated against it;
- References can have an expiry date (from 1 day to 2 years), something impossible in local mode;
- There is a sandbox environment to validate the integration without real transactions.
The local mode remains available for backwards compatibility, and open references generated the old way keep reconciling after the switch: stores migrate with no downtime window.
MB WAY: promise delivered, and then some
When we wrote about version 2.x, MB WAY was "future development". Version 3.0.0 closes the loop: besides push payments at checkout, customers can re-send the payment request from their order history without going through checkout again, and the store team can trigger a push directly from the backoffice. Fewer orders abandoned because a push expired on someone's phone.
Ready for Drupal's future
Version 3.0.0 supports Drupal 10 and Drupal 11, and Commerce 2.x and 3.x. The module now runs continuous integration on drupal.org, with more than 50 automated tests validating every change on both Drupal versions, and stable releases are covered by the community's security advisory policy.
If your store runs version 2.x, we recommend upgrading: the 2.x branch is no longer supported and does not include the protections against reference collisions.
composer require 'drupal/commerce_ifthenpay:^3.0'Need help with payments in Drupal Commerce?
Bloomidea develops and maintains Commerce ifthenpay and has been building Drupal Commerce stores for the Portuguese market for more than a decade: Multibanco, MB WAY, cards, Stripe and PayPal, with ERP and logistics integrations. Talk to us about your project.
15 Jul 2026 10:47am GMT