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Magento: Beginner's Guide

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Magento: Beginner's Guide

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 – adding a Grouped product


Adding a Grouped product starts in Catalog | Manage Products. Click on the Add to Cart button and in the next screen, choose Grouped Product and click on Continue:

The product edit screen that is now displayed should look familiar, with the exception of three things:

  • It is not possible to enter a price for the Grouped product as the purchase price is determined by the underlying products that the customer chooses to add to his/her cart

  • It is not possible to enter a stock quantity for the Grouped product as the stock information is kept in the underlying products

  • There is the Associated Products tab, where the products that should be displayed in the "add to cart" form in the storefront for this Grouped product should be set

We will name our product "Phone and/or House Cleaning". The products that will be displayed in the "add to cart" form for this Grouped product will be a phone and the House Cleaning Virtual product that we created earlier.

After...