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Magento : Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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Magento : Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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 – creating a Bundle product


As you can see in the screenshot, the Bundle product is very well suited for build-your-own type products, in the example, a personal computer. There are multiple options presented in a different way (radio buttons, drop-down menus, checkboxes, and so on) depending on what is necessary for each option. For instance, it is possible to select multiple peripherals for the computer, but only one choice can be made for the amount of RAM (memory). Every choice that a customer can make for this computer is a Simple product itself and as such able to be sold separately in the store as well.

Besides, the more advanced presentation of the different choices, a Bundle product also differs from a Grouped product because some of the Bundle product's attributes such as its price and weight can be set for the Bundle product itself and item options can be set as required.

Adding a Bundle product starts in the usual fashion, by going to Catalog | Manage Products in...