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Magento 2 Beginners Guide

By : Gabriel Guarino
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Magento 2 Beginners Guide

By: Gabriel Guarino

Overview of this book

Do you have a good product to sell but need your start-up to sell it to your potential customers the right way? Were you unhappy with what Magento 1 had to offer and are looking forward to trying out what Magento 2 provides? If either of these questions ring a bell, then this book is for you! You'll start by getting a general understanding of what Magento is, why and how you should use it, and whether it is possible and feasible to migrate from an old web store to Magento 2. We'll introduce you to the main e-commerce concepts and basic features and let you play with them, so you can get a taste of how catalog and content management works. Following on from that, we'll show you how to tune your store up. You will learn how to get web store offers up and running, how to offer various discounts in the catalog, how to let the customers reduce the total price in the shopping cart by combining different products, and how to generate coupon codes that customers can use. Finally, we'll get serious and turn your plaything into a real web store, teaching you how to run it for real.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
Magento 2 Beginners Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Overview of the default Magento shipping methods


In this chapter, we will go through the configuration for the Magento shipping methods. All sections for the configuration are located in the STORES | Configuration | SALES | Shipping Methods page.

On this page, you will see a list of all the shipping methods that are available by default in Magento 2:

As you can see in the preceding screenshot, the following shipping methods are included in a default Magento 2 installation:

  • Flat Rate

  • Free Shipping

  • Table Rates

  • UPS

  • USPS

  • FedEx

  • DHL

Flat Rate

Let's start by reviewing Flat Rate. If you expand this section, you will see the following form:

This is a predefined charge that will be applied to the orders in your store. The amount defined as the cost for shipping is fixed and depends on the configuration that you set from the admin panel.

In order to configure the method, you should update the following fields:

  • Enabled: Specify whether Flat Rate should be available as a shipping method on the Storefront.

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