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.