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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

Magento scopes - websites, stores, and store views


One of the most important features of Magento is the ability to create multiple stores from a single Magento instance. Magento has implemented a hierarchical system that includes four levels:

  • Default/global

  • Website

  • Store/store group

  • Store view

The most common scenario of multistore configuration in Magento is found in retailers that separate their catalog by store view as follows:

In the preceding example, the company has a website, but each product family has its own store to target different customers. Finally, each store has its own store views to be able to display the content in different languages.

With a single instance of Magento, you can implement a multistore configuration using:

  • Multiple languages

  • Multiple domain names

  • Different categories

You can see the store configuration for your Magento instance in the STORES | Settings | All Stores section of the Magento admin panel. You will see the following grid on the screen:

There you will...