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Learning Magento 2 Administration

By : Cyndi Williams
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Learning Magento 2 Administration

By: Cyndi Williams

Overview of this book

Magento 2 has been completely re-written and re-designed to take the world’s most popular open source e-commerce platform to new heights of productivity and usability. With this overhaul comes improved opportunities to leverage the world’s most successful open source e-commerce platform for your online retail and wholesale business. The focus of this book is on operational aspects: those actions you, as a proprietor, can take to give your customers a more delightful shopping experience. In this guide, we delve into all aspects of managing a Magento 2 store, from product creation to marketing, customer management to search engine optimization. This book is not only a step-by-step course in setting up your Magento 2 website, it will be a handy reference as continue to improve and refine your online presence.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Magento 2 Administration
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Configuring multiple currencies


In most cases where you're building stores for multiples languages or if you simply want to offer customers greater convenience, you can set Magento to provide pricing in multiple currencies. For this exercise, we will combine both possibilities:

  • We will offer prices on the English sportswear site in US Dollars and Euros.

  • We will display prices on the French and German sportswear sites in Euros as well as British Pound Sterling, Japanese Yen, and US Dollars.

As all these sites are Store entities within the same Website entity, we can't manually set prices at different currencies, but we will set Magento to calculate the different prices based on the periodically updated currency conversion rates.

Note

Remember that manually offering different prices on the same product requires multiple Website entities, each connected to the same catalog. You also would need to navigate to Catalog Price Scope in Stores | Configuration | Catalog | Price and set it to Website.

Setting...