Magento - Overview

What is E-commerce?

E-commerce (Electronic Commerce) is a type of business that involves the commercial transaction or purchasing or selling of goods and services through electronic channels known as internet. It was first introduced in the year 1960 through EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) on VAN(Value - added network). Using E-commerce, you can sell the physical products, selling of services (where the payment is made online).

Magento - Installation

This article provides step-by-step procedure for Magento installation. Befor installing Magento, you require following system requirements.

System Requirements for Magento

• Database : MySQL 5.1 +
• Web Server :
  
  • Apache 2.x
  • Nginx 1.7.x
    

Magento - Architecture

In this chapter, we are going to discuss the architectural style of Magento, for implementing user interfaces. The following diagram shows architecture of Magento:

Magento - Product Overview

Magento Products

Products are the items or things, that are sold in Magento. Product can be anything that is capable of satisfying customer needs. This includes both physical products and services.

Magento - Setup Languages

Step (1): Go to the official website of magento and search for a new language pack using search field. For instance, if you want to search for Italian language, type Italian Language Pack in search box and press enter. It displays the installation package file and then click on it.

Magento - Setup Contact

Magento has built-in contact form which can be used for general contacts and can be found in footer part of your Magento installation.
To create contact form in Magento, you need to follow the below steps:
Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel.
Step (2): Next go to CMS menu and click on the Pages option.

Magento - Setup Categories

Categories are classes or things which are related, and have some shared characteristics. The following steps describe how to add categories for the products in Magento.
Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel.
Step (2): Go to the Catalog menu and click on the Manage Categories option.

Magento - Setup Products

Products are the items or things that are sold in Magento. You can add your products to the store view as per customer needs. It includes both physical products and services.
Magento provides an easy way to add your product quantities as described in the following steps:
Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel.

Magento - Setup Inventory

Inventory allows setting a product's stock quantity. For instance, you have a product with 100 units in stock. If you set the stock availability to "Out of Stock" then it will force the item to be out of stock. We will see how to configure and manage the inventory settings in Magento.
Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel.

Magento - Setup Taxes

Magento allows to setup different tax classes and tax rates and bringing them together into tax rules. You can also define product tax classes and assign them to products. Tax rules are combination of product tax class, customer tax class, tax rates, shipping address and amount of purchase.
The following steps describe how to add and manage tax classes in Magento.
Step (1): Login to your magento admin panel.

Magento - Setup Shipping Rates

In online business, selling of physical products to customers should have flexible and scalable shipping policies. Magento is a friendly system for business needs including shipment rates.
The following steps describe how to setup shipping rates in Magento:
Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel.

Magento - Setup Payment Plans

PayPal is a secure way for customers to pay online. This article explains how to setup payments methods in Magento. With PayPal and Magento, you can accept payments from credit cards, debit cards and PayPal account holders.
The following steps describe how to set up payments plans in Magento:
Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel.

Magento - Setup Payment Gateway

Payment gateway processes the credit card data securely between customer and merchant and also between merchant and the payment processor. It is like checkpoint that protects customers against attempting to gather personal and financial information from customers and also act as mediator between the merchant and sponsoring bank.

Magento - Setup Payment Methods

This article explains how to setup payments methods in Magento and also shows how to configure Magento to use PayPal as payment processor for both credit cards and PayPal payments.
The following steps describe how to set up payments in Magento:

Magento - Setup Currencies

Magento has built-in functionality for currencies. After installing Magento, by default there will be one currency used for pricing and payment.
The following steps show you how to set up the currencies in Magento store:
Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel

Magento - Setup Check Out Options

Checkout options are used for enabling and disabling the one-page checkout. This tutorial guides you how to configure setup checkout options from the admin panel of Magento.
Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel.
Step (2): Go to System menu and click on the Configuration option.

Magento - Setup Paypal Payment

In this tutorial you will study how to setup PayPal payment. Look at the steps given below how to setup PayPal payment in magento.
Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel.
Step (2): Go to System menu and click on the Configuration option.

Magento - Setup Google Checkout

Google Checkout is online payment processing service provided by Google. Magento allows integration of online stores with Google checkout. It is like PayPal that simplifies the process of paying for online purchases. To use Google Checkout, customers need to have Google Checkout merchant account.
The following steps help to set up Magento store with Google Checkout.

Magento - Setup Store Live

This chapter shows how to setup the live store on your Magento website.
Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel.
Step (2): Go to System menu and click on the Manage Stores option.

Magento - Orders Life Cycle

Orders follow a standard life cycle process. When customer place product orders, it arrive in the administration interface with a pending status. When order is processed, the status of order changes according to current state in the processing workflow. Once the invoice is created for the order, the status changes from pending to processing status. Next it creates shipment for an order which changes the status from pending to complete status.