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Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook

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Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook

Overview of this book

Magento is a feature-rich, professional open source e-commerce solution that offers users complete flexibility and control over the look, content, and functionality of their online store. Although Magento provides users with the power to create dynamic e-commerce sites, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and create sites that are tailored to your unique business needs.This book gives you a hands-on experience on Magento, helping you increase your revenue by implementing proven sales tactics on your Magento site.This book contains techniques to help you with each stage of selling to your customers: attracting visitors, driving them to your product pages, making the sale, increasing sales, engaging your customers, and more. It contains a powerful mix of techniques for increasing sales in your online storefront. Over thirty of the techniques are short and stand alone. A few are designed to be used together, such as the seven techniques in the chapter on creating an international storefront. Some techniques make creative use of Magento’s standard features. A few techniques combine Magento with other tools, such as social networking sites. All the techniques are explained in clear, step-by-step directions, with many screenshots. The book uses an example site for each technique, so that you can see exactly how it will affect your storefront. You can jump into the book at any point, or, work through it from beginning to end.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Offering free shipping


To increase sales, you can offer free shipping for a minimum purchase amount. For example, "Free shipping on all orders over €100". This section shows how to offer free shipping on orders that meet a minimum amount. You can also offer free shipping on every order, but that is just a matter of entering zero for all shipping costs, so we will not cover it here.

Note

For the rest of this section, when we say "free shipping", we mean "free shipping for a minimum order amount".

If you always use the same shipping method, make free shipping an option under the shipper. This is the simplest option for you to set up. Free shipping becomes available only when the shopping cart reaches a minimum amount. In the following screenshot, you can see that the shopper has met the minimum amount of over $50:

Getting ready

Before you try to configure free shipping, you should know how to configure regular shipping, that is, you should have non-free shipping configured. This is covered in...