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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

Time for action – creating a new user group, Product Entry


In this section, we will learn how to create a new user group called Product Entry. This group will have only permissions to view, update, and create new products.

  1. Let's open the System | Users | User Groups menu on the administration panel.

  2. OpenCart has a Demonstration user group which is created upon installation. We don't need this. Let's delete it from the user group listings.

  3. After the deletion, click on the Insert button. Then, we will need to fill in the User Group Name field as Product Entry. We select catalog/product from the Access Permission listings. Let's do the same for the Modify Permission listings. Let's not forget to click on the Save button:

What just happened?

We have just learned how to create a new user group and assign permission to it. In this specific case, we have given permissions that are only related to product viewing, changing, and creating.

Have a go hero – creating a Manager user group

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