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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

Introduction to the different product types in Magento


One of the most important features of Magento are the product types. The different product types allow you to set up products in different ways, for example, by offering a group of products in the product details page or by allowing the customer to buy downloadable products.

There are six product types in Magento:

  • Simple products

  • Configurable products

  • Grouped products

  • Virtual products

  • Bundle products

  • Downloadable products

You can see the list with the help of the following steps:

  1. Go to the following section in the admin panel: Products | Inventory | Catalog

  2. Click on the arrow inside the Add Product button on the top-right corner of the screen:

It's important to mention that Magento can set the correct product type based on the information from the product. For example, if you add a new product with no weight, Magento will create a virtual product.

We will review each of the product types including examples to show the way these products are created...