GloryBee is a Eugene, Oregon-based business that creates a wide variety of honey and bee-based products, selling to wholesalers, beekeepers, and individual customers alike. Because of the different pools of their customer bases, they needed to have a site that could appeal to all of them: farmers, shoppers, children, and everything in between. The resulting multisite Drupal was my first foray into Drupal 7, and also my first integration of Drupal and X-Cart. Working with my coworkers at Kosmos Central, we created a flexible and large website that hopefully could meet all of these needs.
The main name of the game with GloryBee was twofold: 1) keeping the X-Cart and Drupal systems working in tandem, and 2) using the beekeeping blog to drive traffic to their products and vise-versa. We were able to, essentially, "clip" parts of the X-Cart interface into various Drupal blocks, then place them seamlessly into the layout of the Drupal site, making one X-Cart instance serve the six multisites. Even the search bar that appeared at the top of every page would either search Drupal via a SOLR search, or X-Cart via the built-in product filters.
GloryBee has since had their site rebuilt in Magento.