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OpenCart 1.4: Beginner's Guide

By : Murat Yilmaz
Book Image

OpenCart 1.4: Beginner's Guide

By: Murat Yilmaz

Overview of this book

<p>OpenCart is a popular open source shopping cart solution and provides elegantly written tools to establish a fully functional online store from scratch in a very short time with intuitive screens. It can be a difficult task for beginners to go beyond the basics and apply all the features, which they will require for their businesses.</p> <p>This practical book gives you hands-on experience on using and managing OpenCart, helping you start feature-rich, professional online stores easily. It also teaches you how to organize your online store effectively in terms of products, payments, shipping, orders, and customer relations.</p> <p>OpenCart 1.4 Beginner's Guide will teach you how to build a store that can take control of all the online shopping needs. You will be able to run multiple shops in a single installation. You will learn how to set up products and correctly organize in categories. You will correctly integrate a payment gateway and shipping method after reading the comparisons and applying the examples. You will learn how to define taxes and apply them according to the geolocation of a customer. This book also teaches you how to manage orders and customers. You can impress your customers and increase the availability of the website to more people with the help of this practical guide. Additionally, the book also teaches you how to use design templates and apply SEO (search engine optimization) to make the store more visible for search engine queries.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
OpenCart 1.4 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the author
About the reviewers
Preface
Index

Time for action – setting the tax class for a Reebok shoe


We will now see how setting a tax class for a product affects the overall price.

  1. First, let's browse to the shoe example, which we added in the previous chapter, on storefront. Notice that the price is exactly the same as we had set in the administration panel in the previous chapter.

  2. Let's open the administration panel and choose the Catalog | Products menu.

  3. Let's Edit the shoe item on our store.

  4. We browse to the Data tab, find, and change the Tax Class property to the Taxable Goods option. Do not forget to Save the changes.

  5. We again browse to the shoe on the storefront and see that the price of the shoe has changed. The price increase is exactly the percentage of UK VAT rate, which was defined as 17.5%.

Note

Now, carefully read the following section to understand why the UK VAT rate was applied automatically for this product even though there is also a Germany Sales Tax in this tax class.

What just happened?

An OpenCart store is installed...