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OpenCart 1.4: Beginner's Guide

By : Murat Yilmaz
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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

Choosing a shipping method


The decision of which shipping method(s) we will use on our store is very important. OpenCart supports standard shipping methods including Free, Flat Rate, Per Item, and Weight Base Shipping and also enables us to use established shippers including UPS, USPS, and Royal Mail. We will cover the most important methods with examples.

Free shipping

In OpenCart, we can apply free shipping to an order. We can provide free shipping on all purchases without a minimum basket value or alternatively, a customer will see the free shipping option on the checkout page if his/her basket is bigger than our pre-defined value.

We should calculate the packing and shipping costs carefully before enabling free shipping since customers will not pay extra for it. Free shipping can be defined for all zones or only one zone. For example, free shipping for orders more than $200 for UK zone visitors.

Note

Currently, free shipping cannot be applied on multiple zones separately on the default free...