Magento: Beginner's Guide Table Of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Installation
Chapter 3: Categories and Attributes
Chapter 4: Taxes
Chapter 5: Adding Simple Products
Chapter 6: Minimum Customization of Your Store's Appearance
Chapter 7: Beyond Simple Products
Chapter 8: Customer Relationships
Chapter 9: Accepting Payment
Chapter 10: Configure Shipping
Chapter 11: Fulfilling an Order
Appendix A: Abbreviated Step-by-Step Directions
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction
  • The scope of this book
    • Beyond this book
    • Time for action: Tour the demo store
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Installation
  • System requirements
    • A list of requirements
    • Determining which PHP version and extensions your web server has
    • Do you have Apache's mod_rewrite and SSL?
      • mod_rewrite makes user-friendly URLs
      • Do you need SSL?
  • Installing Magento
    • Time for action: Downloading Magento
    • Time for action: Uploading Magento to your web host
  • Setting rights (permissions) for some of Magento's directories and files
    • About owners and groups
  • About rights
    • Using numbers (octals) to state permissions
  • Time for action: Setting the rights
  • Time for action : Creating a database and database user
  • Time for action: Pointing your browser to the
  • Magento directory and stepping through the installation wizard

• Check
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Categories and Attributes
  • Categories, Products, and Attributes
    • Is it a Category or an Attribute?
    • Examples
    • Categories
      • Categories and the Navigation Menu
      • Making best use of Categories
    • Attributes
      • System versus Simple Attributes
      • Attribute Sets
    • Three types of Products
      • Simple Product
      • Configurable Product
      • Grouped Product
  • Putting it together
    • Time for action: Creating Categories
    • Time for action: Creating Attributes
      • What's next?
    • Time for action: Creating Attribute Sets
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Taxes
  • Anatomy of a Tax Rule
    • Customer Tax Class
    • Product Tax Class
    • Tax Rate
    • Priority
    • Sort Order
  • Why create Tax Rules now?
  • Creating a Tax Rule
    • Time for action: Creating a Customer Tax Class
    • Time for action: Creating a Product Tax Class
    • Creating Tax Rates
    • Time for action: Creating a Tax Rate in Magento
    • Time for action: Exporting and importing Tax Rates
    • Time for action: Creating a Tax Rule
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Adding Simple Products
  • Part 1: Adding the Product and assigning an Attribute Set
    • Time for action: Creating the Product and selecting an Attribute Set
  • Part 2: The General tab
    • Time for action: Filling the fields on the General tab
  • Part 3: The Prices tab
    • Time for action: Entering pricing for the Product
  • Part 4: The Meta Information tab
    • Time for action: Entering Meta information
  • Part 5: The Images tab
    • Time for action: Uploading images
  • Part 6: The Inventory tab
    • Time for action: Setting the global and Product inventory options
  • Part 7: The Categories tab
    • Time for action: Selecting Categories
  • Covered elsewhere: Promotions
  • Summing up
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Minimum Customization of Your Store's Appearance
  • Our store so far
    • The default Category page
      • The Layered Navigation Menu
      • Blocks: My Cart, Compare Products, and Recently Viewed Products
      • Callouts
      • Newsletter
      • Community Poll
      • Welcome message
      • Store name
    • The default front page
      • The default About Us and Customer Service pages
      • The Site Map, Search Terms, Advanced Search, and Contact Us links
  • Customize the Layered Navigation Menu
  • Customize the Callouts
    • Time for action: Replacing the default graphic for a callout
    • Replacing the default alt text for a callout
    • Time for action: Replacing the alt text for the right callout
    • Time for action: Replacing the alt text and the link for the left callout
      • Turning off the cache and testing the page
    • Time for action: Turning the page cache off
  • Disabling the Newsletter or Poll
    • Time for action: Disabling the Newsletter or Poll
  • Customize the welcome message
    • The HTML Head section
    • The Header section
    • The Footer section

• Using new themes
  • Time for action: Installing a theme

• Changing your store's name
  • Time for action: Change your store's name

• Summary

• Chapter 7: Beyond Simple Products
  • Related Products
    • Time for action: Adding related Product(s) to a Product
  • Grouped Products
    • Creating a Grouped Product
    • Time for action: Creating a Blank Grouped Product
    • Time for action: Completing the General tab
    • Time for action: Completing the Meta Information tab
    • Time for action: Uploading images
    • Time for action: Completing the Inventory tab
    • Time for action: Assigning a Category
    • Time for action: Selecting Associated Products
  • Configurable Products
    • Creating a Configurable Product
    • Time for action: Designating some Attributes as configurable
    • Time for action: Creating the first Simple Product that will be associated to the Configurable Product
    • Time for action: Duplicating the first Simple Product and creating other Products
    • Time for action: Creating a blank Configurable Product
    • Time for action: Associating the Simple Products to the Configurable Product
  • Tiered pricing
    • Giving discounts for minimum quantities to all customers
    • Looking ahead: Giving discounts to specified customer groups
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Customer Relationships
  • Configuring store email addresses
    • Time for action: Entering email addresses for your store
  • Configuring Contact Us
    • Time for action: Configuring the Contact Us form
  • Managing customers
    • Advantages of having customer accounts
      • Advantages for the customer
      • Advantages for the administrator
    • Time for action: Configuring customer account options
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Accepting Payment
  • Checkout and Sales configuration
    • The Sales Tax page
    • The Checkout page
    • Time for action: Configuring Checkout options
    • The Sales configuration page
    • Time for action: Setting the Sales configuration
    • The General configuration page
    • Currency Setup page
    • Time for action: Configuring Magento for your locationand currency
  • An overview of the online payment process for credit cards
    • Shopping Cart
    • Payment Gateway
    • Merchant Account and business Bank Account
    • Where do PayPal, Authorize.net, and Payflow fit in?
      • Payflow Pro is a Payment Gateway
      • PayPal and Authorize.net are Gateways plus Merchant Accounts
      • Which option is the best for credit card processing?
  • Payment methods in detail
    • Saved CC
    • Zero Subtotal Checkout
    • Check/Money Order
    • Purchase Order
    • Authorize.net
    • Payflow Pro
    • PayPal Express Checkout
    • PayPal Website Payments Standard
    • PayPal Website Payments Pro—Direct Payments
    • PayPal Website Payments Pro (Payflow Edition)—Express and Direct
    • Google Checkout
      • Advantages and disadvantages of Google Checkout
    • Configuring a payment method
  • Summary

• Chapter 10: Configure Shipping
  • Decisions you must make
    • Will you allow multiple addresses?
    • What shipping methods will you offer?
      • Flat Rate shipping
      • Table Rate method
      • UPS, USPS, FedEx, and DHL
      • Offering multiple shipping methods
    • Where can the buyer send the items to?
    • Will you charge a handling fee?
    • Do you offer free shipping for a minimum dollar amount?
  • Configuration settings and issues
    • Time for action: Setting the overall configuration settings that affect shipping
    • Configuring Flat Rate shipping
    • Configure the Table Rate
    • Time for action: Creating a shipping rate table
    • Configuring Free Shipping
    • UPS
    • USPS
    • FedEx
    • DHL
    • Time for action: Configuring and testing the shipping rates
  • Summary

• Chapter 11: Fulfilling an Order
  • The lifecycle of an order
    • Step 1: Customer places the order
    • Step 2: You create an invoice
    • Step 3: Locate the orders that need to be shipped
    • Step 4: Print orders and pack them
    • Step 5: Create a shipment
  • Tips for managing orders
  • Practicing the complete order process
    • Time for action: Practice processing an order
  • Summary

• Appendix A: Abbreviated Step-by-Step Directions
  • Categories and Attributes
    • Creating a Category
      • The General Information tab
    • Creating an Attribute
      • The Properties tab
    • Creating an Attribute Set
  • Taxes
    • Creating a Customer Tax Class
    • Creating a Product Tax Class
    • Creating a Tax Rate
    • Exporting and Importing Tax Rates
    • Creating a Tax Rule
  • Simple Products
    • Adding a Simple Product
      • Part 1: Adding the Product and assigning an Attribute Set
      • Part 2: The General tab
      • Part 3: The Prices tab
      • Part 4: Meta Information tab
      • Part 5: Images tab
      • Part 6: Inventory tab
      • Part 7: Categories
  • Customizing your store's appearance
    • Page Cache
      • To turn the page cache off and on
    • Callouts
      • Replacing the default graphic for a callout
      • Replacing the default alt text for a callout
    • Disabling the Newsletter or Poll
    • Customizing the Welcome Message
    • Customizing the HTML Head section
      • The Header section
      • The Footer section
      • Changing your store's name
    • Customizing the front page
  • Advanced Products
    • To add Related Products to a Product
    • To create a Grouped Product
    • To create a Configurable Product
    • Tiered Pricing: Discounts for minimum quantities

• Customer relationships
  • Configuring store email addresses
  • Configuring the Contacts Function
  • Configuring customer options

• Accepting payment
• Configuring shipping

• Index