Magento 2 Beginners Guide (eBook)

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.

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A practical guide to creating a faster and more responsive e-commerce website with enhanced features in Magento 2Key FeaturesSet up and manage your very first online store with a friendly and engaging approach using Magento 2Create your own shipping rates matrix and connect to shippers such as UPS, FedEx, and USPSCreate reports to track store sales, customer activity, and statisticsBook DescriptionDo 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.What you will learnBuild your first web store in Magento 2Migrate your development environment to a live storeConfigure your Magento 2 web store the right way, so that your taxes are handled properlyCreate pages with arbitrary contentCreate and manage customer contacts and accountsWho this book is forThis book is for e-commerce merchants, e-commerce managers, and store administrators who are looking to migrate existing e-commerce stores to Magento 2. Magento administrators wishing to learn the benefits of Magento 2 will also find this book helpful. E-commerce professionals looking to build an online store will also get benefited from this book.