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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

Default shipping methods in Magento


The default shipping methods of Magento can be found in System | Configuration | Shipping Methods. There are multiple shipping methods included by default in Magento, of which three can be used relatively quickly in a starting store:

  • Free Shipping: This is a zero sum shipping rate.

  • Flat Rate: Here all customers see the same shipping rate during checkout.

  • Table Rate: Here your customers will see a shipping rate that is determined by a number of factors.

Setting these up will be discussed later. Apart from these, Magento also includes integrations with UPS, USPS, FedEx, and DHL.

Configuring free shipping

When you enable this shipping method, customers get an option to choose a shipping method that does not increase the price of the total order. In other words, a free shipping method. Most of the settings for this shipping method function in the same way as the input fields with the same name for the Flat Rate shipping method as discussed previously. The only specific...