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Instant E-commerce with OpenCart: Build a Shop

By : Murat Yilmaz
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Instant E-commerce with OpenCart: Build a Shop

By: Murat Yilmaz

Overview of this book

<p>For years, starting an e-commerce shop was considered a hard task with the need of a significant amount of money, time, and resources. OpenCart makes this process easier and enables anyone to create an attractive and profitable e-commerce solution. This concise guide will show you how to create a robust and striking online store with OpenCart.</p> <p>"Instant E-Commerce with OpenCart: Build a Shop" teaches you how to build your own online shop with step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions. You will learn how to install, configure, and customize your own shop in order to create an attractive and fully functional store in no time. If you have always wanted to create an online shop, but don’t know how, then this book is for you!</p> <p>In "Instant E-Commerce with OpenCart: Build a Shop", you will be taken through the required steps to create an awesome e-commerce solution. This book starts by showing you how to correctly set up and install OpenCart, before moving on to creating products and their attributes.</p> <p>If the world of payment gateways and shipping options sounds complicated, don’t worry. This guide will take you through the essentials required to set up and manage how your customers are going to pay for and receive their orders! Finishing with vouchers, templates, and SEO, this book will ensure you end up with a powerful, attractive, and profitable online store.</p>
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Adding product attributes (Simple)


Product attributes generally define the categorized specifications or technical features of a product. If you provide the attributes, shop visitors can compare them side by side.

Getting ready

There are attributes and attribute groups that are created upon installation by default. We will need to delete them before entering our attribute information.

Let's open the list of attributes by clicking on the Catalog menu and then clicking on Attributes. After this, we will delete all the installed attributes.

Let's do the delete operation for the Attribute Groups list, which is located under Catalog | Attributes | Attribute Groups.

How to do it...

  1. We will start by adding an attribute group. For our example, we have chosen Physical attributes as the name for our attribute group.

  2. Guitar Body Material and Number of strings are two sample attributes. We will assign them to a certain attribute group while creating them.

  3. We will now edit our product using the Attribute tab under Catalog | Products. The available attributes are listed as soon as we begin filling in an attribute name. The following screenshot shows the two attribute values that are assigned for the product. This is a six string guitar with a basswood guitar body.

  4. If a visitor browses the product and opens the Specification tab, all the information we have provided will be seen.

How it works...

We should be providing this information where visitors are likely to compare and classify the attributes of more than one product. It's better usage of information. Here is the comparison screen for a user: