By now you just got an impression of how you should set up a shop system with kb_shop and a reference to all available properties, markers and fields.
This tutorial aims at giving a short glimpse about what is possible with kb_shop. When you implemented a shop system on your own and you think that you have a nice structure and want to improve this document then write a tutorial how to implement your kind of shop and I will add it to this document in a section called "Real-world examples".
This tutorial doesn't base on a real project but is rather just a little guide on how to set up a basic table containing some fields, two tables (one of them virtual) for letting an order process happen and will show some basic practices how to create nice web-shops.
IMPORTANT: If you haven't noticed it until now by yourself I should point you at the fact that KB-Shop not only is good for real shop systems where people order products and other stuff but for ANY listing of records. For example if you have a website of a customer and have to list entries for "Talks" which have been held, or a listing for "Brochures" ... or a simple "Jobs" listing you will in some cases not be able to use the standard content elements cause some special sorting (for example after a field "Publication Date") has to get used. In this case you could create a table whose name fits their contents and insert a listing plugin on the specific page. Then the Editors just will have to create Records of Type "Brochue" or similar and will get a nice list sorted after criterias you define using the criteria Tab in the FE plugin.
First you have to create a sysfolder somewhere in your page-structure (most common somewhere on the root-level, next to your extension template storage folder probably). This folder will contain the categories and properties used in the shop.
Make settings: TCA Mode = 1, Property/Category Folder = Folder created in Step 1
Example how to create a "Title" Text field property and a IMAGE property for exampe.
Insert record directly on page (Allow Table on Pages must be set in Step 4)
firstname, lastname, addres, + section containing fields ordered product (dbrel) and order amount
And assign them the order properties. There must be one table which has the virtual flag set.
Copy over listing tempate and insert order amount fields, create delivery/billing addres template
