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Magento 2 Beginners Guide

By : Gabriel Guarino
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Magento 2 Beginners Guide

By: Gabriel Guarino

Overview of this book

Do you have a good product to sell but need your start-up to sell it to your potential customers the right way? Were you unhappy with what Magento 1 had to offer and are looking forward to trying out what Magento 2 provides? If either of these questions ring a bell, then this book is for you! You'll start by getting a general understanding of what Magento is, why and how you should use it, and whether it is possible and feasible to migrate from an old web store to Magento 2. We'll introduce you to the main e-commerce concepts and basic features and let you play with them, so you can get a taste of how catalog and content management works. Following on from that, we'll show you how to tune your store up. You will learn how to get web store offers up and running, how to offer various discounts in the catalog, how to let the customers reduce the total price in the shopping cart by combining different products, and how to generate coupon codes that customers can use. Finally, we'll get serious and turn your plaything into a real web store, teaching you how to run it for real.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
Magento 2 Beginners Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Adding your first product


Congratulations! You are about to add your first product in Magento 2, which is a big step forward in the learning curve of Magento.

First, you should log in to the admin panel using your username and password. Once you do that, you should see the PRODUCTS menu item on the left sidebar:

You should go to the PRODUCTS | Catalog submenu item to open the Catalog grid. When the page loads, you will see the Add Product button in the top-right of the screen:

When you click on that button, you will be redirected to the New Product form. You should see the following form on screen:

We will go through each of the fields on that page to describe how to add the information for your new product:

  • General information:

    • Enable Product: This is the status for the product.

    • Attribute Set: This refers to the group of attributes that are assigned to this product. We will cover this in detail in the next chapter.

    • Product Name: This is the name of the product.

    • SKU: This is the unique identifier...