Book Image

Magento : Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Book Image

Magento : Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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

Time for action – configuring Table Rate shipping


  1. Selecting the right store scope.

    Go to System | Configuration | Shipping Methods and click on the Table Rates section. Magento's configuration has a drop-down list, which sets the store scope. By default, you are editing configuration values for all the Stores and Store Views in your Magento installation. If you want to configure this shipping method, you have to choose your website using the scope drop-down list in the top-left corner of the configuration section. You can't fully set up this shipping method if you have not chosen the Store or Store View for which you are editing the settings. The store scope drop-down list can be seen follows:

  2. Exporting the CSV file.

    After you have set the scope drop-down list to the website, you can see a button for exporting a CSV file and a button for uploading a CSV file. A CSV file is a Comma Separated Values file and it is the file format often used in information systems to transmit rows of data.

    Select...