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Magento: Beginner's Guide

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Magento: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Magento is one of the most powerful, flexible, and customizable e-commerce systems. It offers you the ability to create and manage a profitable online store. As your online store grows, you can be sure that this robust e-commerce system can handle your needs. However, getting started with Magento can be difficult without the right guidance.Magento Beginner's Guide - Second Edition provides guidance in the form of a step-by-step approach to building a simple, effective online store. The book covers the key features of Magento that will help you get your store up and running. It guides you through installation, configuration, populating your store with products, accepting payments, maintaining relationships with your customers, and fulfilling orders.Magento Beginner's Guide - Second Edition guides you through the installation, configuration, populating your store with products, accepting payments, maintaining relationships with your customers, and fulfilling orders. You will start with installing Magento on a hosting provider or on your local machine for testing purposes. From there, you will learn everything Magento has to offer, from working with products to adding additional functions.After installing Magento, you'll learn how to set up your first store and add multiple stores in the same environment. One of Magento's strengths, the product catalogue, will also be discussed thoroughly. From there we'll continue to set up payment and shipping methods. You'll learn to use themes to give your store the look and feel you need. As well as that, you'll start using extensions to expand Magento's functionality and you'll learn to process your first orders.You will learn to customize the default Magento storefront so that it becomes your personalized store and also about Magento's directory structure and find out where some of the elements of a store are customized. As you work your way through each chapter, your store will grow in scope and sophistication. By the time you finish this book, you should have a complete, working online store.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Magento Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Virtual products and Downloadable products


Virtual products are used to facilitate nonphysical purchases such as house cleaning, a service contract, or an hour of consultancy. Adding a Virtual product is much like adding a Simple product as described in the previous chapter. In the Magento admin, by using the default Magento settings, the most noticeable difference when adding the Virtual product is the absence of the attributes weight, color, and manufacturer.

Adding a Virtual product

In your store's frontend, the difference between a Virtual product and a Simple product can be seen in the checkout process. When a customer orders a Virtual product, the step to select a shipping method will be completely gone!

The first step when adding a Virtual product is to go to Catalog | Manage Products. On this screen, click on Add Product in the top-right corner. You will be taken to the first step of adding a product: choosing the attribute set and product type. So far, this should be familiar from...