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Mastering Magento 2 - Second Edition

By : Bret Williams, Andre Gugliotti, Jonathan Bownds
Book Image

Mastering Magento 2 - Second Edition

By: Bret Williams, Andre Gugliotti, Jonathan Bownds

Overview of this book

The long-awaited release of the world's most popular online solution, Magento 2, is now out with an all new interface and several enhancements. This book offers you advanced guidance on managing, optimizing, and extending your store while taking advantage of the new features of Magento 2. This is a comprehensive guide to using the all new features and interface of Magento 2 to build, extend, and design online stores. From planning your Magento installation through to advanced techniques designed to make your store as successful as possible, this book is your roadmap to managing your Magento store. Focusing on Magento's Community version, the book covers everything from creating and managing multiple stores to fine-tuning Magento for speed and performance. You’ll learn how to manage categories, products, design themes, extensions, and more.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Magento 2 Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Sales configurations


Before you can begin taking orders on your new Magento website, you need to confirm that you have all the necessary configurations in place.

Company information

In your Magento backend, go to Stores | Configuration | General | General. Review your settings for the following panels:

  • Countries Options: This panel allows you to restrict the countries to which you will sell products. Your store owner may have limitations where they can ship and/or receive payments. The Default Country sets the default for any country selection drop-down menu.

  • Locale Options: Use these settings to accommodate the backend users of your Magento store.

  • Store Information: The values entered here will be used throughout the Magento stores as defaults for name, telephone number, and address.

Store e-mail addresses

Even small online vendors may use different email addresses for different purposes. We often set up multiple email addresses for our client's stores, even if the same person may be receiving...