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Magento 2 Cookbook

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Magento 2 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Magento 2 is an open source e-commerce platform that has all the functionality to function from small to large online stores. It is preferred by developers and merchants due to its new architecture, which makes it possible to extend the functionalities with plugins, a lot of which are now created by the community. This merchant and developer guide is packed with recipes that cover all aspects of Magento 2. The recipes start with simple how-to’s then delve into more advanced topics as the book progresses. We start with the basics of setting up a Magento 2 project on Apache or Nginx. Next, you will learn about basics including system tools and caching to get your Magento 2 system ready for the real work. We move on to simple tasks such as managing your store and catalog configuration. When you are familiar with this, we cover more complex features such as module and extension development. Then we will jump to the final part: advanced Magento 2 extensions. By the end of this book, you’ll be competent with all the development phases of Magento 2 and its most common elements.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Magento 2 Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing customer groups


Everybody knows that every website is different. Some sites only sell products to Business to Consumer (B2C) while others sell to Business to Business (B2B) or both.

In the B2C market it is pretty common to only have one customer group called Retailer. While the B2B market is related to the Wholesaler. Beside these two, we could also have groups such as Platinum, Gold, Silver, Special members, or groups based on their location. So the options are unlimited. Setting up the correct infrastructure for your customers helps you to segment these groups and offer them different prices.

Magento offers by default the following groups: General, NOT LOGGED IN, Retailer, and Wholesale.

Tip

By default, all groups are related to the Tax Class: Retail Customer. You may need to change this depending on your locale regulations.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will use a Droplet created in Chapter 2, Magento 2 System Tools at DigitalOcean https://www.digitalocean.com/. We...