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Magento – Setup Categories ”; Previous Next 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. Step 3 − Next you need to fill the fields like Name of the category, Is Active status which is set to Yes/No and Description of the category. Step 4 − Click on Save Category button and your category is ready to have the products added to it. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Magento – Setup URLs ”; Previous Next You can use Magento to build for more user and search engine friendly URLs as shown in the following steps. Step 1 − Login to your Magento Admin Panel. Step 2 − Go to System menu and click on the Configuration option. Step 3 − On the left side navigation bar, click on the Web option under General section. Step 4 − When page loads, expand the Search Engines Optimization option. Set the option Use Web Server Rewrites to Yes to enable the Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs in Magento. If you select the option as No, then Magento will not use SEF URLs. Click on the Save Config button and your Magento SEF URLs will be enabled. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Magento – Setup Contact ”; Previous Next Magento has built-in contact form which can be used for general contacts and can be found in the footer part of your Magento installation. Following are the steps to create contact form in Magento − Step 1 − Login to your Magento Admin Panel. Step 2 − Go to CMS menu and click on the Pages option. Step 3 − Select the page which you would like to edit or else you can create the new page by clicking on Add New Page button. Step 4 − Click on the Content option on the left side of page which will open the WYSIWYG editor and click on the HTML option that display HTML Source Editor window and paste the below code. <!- CONTACT FORM- > {{block type = “core/template” name = “contactForm” form_action = “/contacts/index/post” template = “contacts/form.phtml”}} <!- END OF CONTACT FORM- > Step 5 − Click on Save Page button and preview the created page to see the contact form. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Magento – Setup Products ”; Previous Next Products are the items or things that are sold in Magento. You can add your products to the store view as per customers’ 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. Step 2 − Go to Catalog and select the Manage Products option from dropdown menu. Step 3 − Under Manage Products section, you will see a list of products, if you have added to your Magento store. If you want to add new product, click on the Add Product button on the page. Step 4 − Next select the Attribute Set and Product Type. There is no need to change anything just go ahead and click on Continue button. Step 5 − Under General section, fill all the details such as Name of the product, Description, SKU (Stock Keeping Unit), Weight, Status, Visibility etc, and then click on the Save and Continue Edit button. Step 6 − Enter the Price and Tax Class for your product and you can also add additional price using Group Price, Special Price and Tier Price options. Fill all the necessary fields and click on Save and Continue Edit button to proceed further. Step 7 − If you want to see list of the saved products, just go to the Catalog and click on the Manage Products option. Step 8 − You can customize the product information by clicking on the Inventory option on the left side. You can set quantity of the products, stock availability, etc as shown in the screen. Then save the product by clicking on save button. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Magento – Setup Order Emails ”; Previous Next This chapter describes how Magento manages e-mails, how you can edit e-mail content, set e-mails from and to parameters, etc. Magento has built-in functionality called Sales Emails which manages the e-mails sent to customers when the order is processed. The following steps describe how to set up order e-mails in Magento − Step 1 − Login to your Magento Admin Panel. Step 2 − Go to the System menu and click on Configuration option. Step 3 − On the left side of the navigation bar, go to Sales section and click on the Sales Emails option. Step 4 − Select the scope under Current Configuration Scope for which you want this configuration to apply. Step 5 − Under Sales Emails page, expand the Order panel which contains the following settings. Enabled − Set this option to Yes to enable new order confirmation e-mails to be sent. New Order Confirmation Email Sender − Using this field, select the e-mail address which is to be used for sending new order confirmation. New Order Confirmation Template − It selects the template which is to be used for the order confirmation e-mails, sent to the registered customers. New Order Confirmation Template for Guest − It selects the template which is to be used for the order confirmation e-mails, sent to the guest customers. Send Order Email Copy To − It specifies the e-mail address to which copy of the new order confirmation e-mail is sent. Send Order Email Copy Method − You can send copy of the new order confirmation e-mail to the additional e-mail address using BCC or separate e-mail. Step 6 − After done with the settings, click on the Save Config button to save your changes. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Magento – Setup Check Out Options ”; Previous Next Checkout options are used for enabling and disabling the one-page checkout. This chapter guides you how to configure 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. Step 3 − Under Sales section on the left side of the navigation bar, click on the Checkout option. Step 4 − Expand the Checkout Options panel which includes setting for one-page checkout with enable/disable option, you can also enable/disable guest checkout and last option from which you can enable or disable terms and conditions. Step 5 − The Shopping Cart panel has options such as − Quote Lifetime (days) which determines lifetime of products in cart, after a customer puts items in the cart After Adding a Product Redirect to Shopping Cart determines whether customers should be redirected to the shopping cart page after the product is placed in the cart. Grouped Product Image and Configurable Product Image options determine whether the parent image of product should be displayed on the cart and whether configurable product added to the cart should be displayed on the shopping cart or not. Step 6 − The My Cart Link panel specifies whether the number of quantities in the cart should be shown or whether the number of different products should be shown using the Display Cart Summary field. Step 7 − The Shopping Cart Sidebar panel contains two options − The Display Shopping Cart Sidebar option can hide or show the cart sidebar on the frontend. Maximum Display Recently Added Item(s) option specifies recently added items to be listed in the cart. Step 8 − The Payment Failed Emails panel has some settings such as − Payment Failed Email Reciever option stores e-mail address to which payment failed e-mail should be sent. Payment Failed Email Sender option specify from which e-mail address payment failed e-mail should be sent. Payment Failed Template option specifies which template should be used to display message. Send Payment Failed Email Copy To option allows to send copies of e-mails to additional e-mail addresses and last option. Send Payment Failed Email Copy Method selects either separate e-mails or blind carbon copies methods to send payment failed e-mails. Step 9 − After done with all settings, click on the Save Config button to save your settings. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Magento – Setup Languages ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will see how to use the Multilanguage feature of Magento. 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. Click on it. Step 2 − You get a package for installing language. You must login to the site to get a language pack. After you login, you get the Extension Key as shown in the following screen. Step 3 − Now login to your Magento Admin Panel and go to the System → Magento Connect → Magento Connect Manager option. Step 4 − It again asks you to login. Enter your credentials to redirect to Magento Connect Manager window. Step 5 − Now under Extensions section, paste the Extension Key (that you had already copied in step 2) and click on Install button. It then displays a status as “Ready to install” and click on Proceed button to install the language. Step 6 − It checks for dependencies of packages and displays the message as Cache cleaned successfully. Now go to admin dashboard page by clicking on Return to Admin link. Step 7 − Go to the System menu and click on Manage Stores option. Step 8 − You will get Manage Stores section to create store view as shown in the following screen. Step 9 − Click on Create Store View button and enter the information for Store, Name, Code, Status and Sort Order fields and click on Save Store View button to store the view as shown in the following screen. Step 10 − To set up your stored language pack, go to the System menu and click on the Configuration option. Step 11 − Go to Current Configuration Scope section on the left side of the page and select the Italian option from the dropdown menu. Step 12 − Now under General section, click on Locale Options, uncheck the Use Website checkbox, select the Italian (Italy) option from the dropdown menu of Locale field and click on Save Config button. This saves your language in Magento and selected langauge will be assigned in the selected store view. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Magento – Search Engine Optimization ”; Previous Next Magento is one of the search engine friendly systems. It is an essential component of a running web-based business and important form of marketing online. To make e-store more visible to the potential buyers, the website admin needs to enhance e-store ranking in search engine results. Customers will like your site if your site is clean, clear and easy to navigate. Magento allows managing URLs, creating images and handling links that makes easy use of SEO, so that your site can easily be indexed in search engines. After installing Magento and setting up your store, you can start optimizing your site for search engines from the web configuration menu. The following steps describe how to set up Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in Magento − Step 1 − Login to your Magento Admin Panel. Step 2 − Go to the System menu and click on Configuration option. Step 3 − On the left side of the navigation, go to the General section and click on the Web option. Step 4 − Expand the URL Options panel, set the Add Store Code to URLs option to No so that store codes are not added to URLs. Step 5 − In the Search Engine Optimization panel, set the Use Web Server Rewrites option to Yes to generate more search engine friendly and readable URLs. Click on Save Config button to save your changes. Step 6 − To set the default page title, change setting of default robots, go to System → Configuration and under General section and click on the Design option. Step 7 − Expand the HTML Head panel, write the title and description in the Default Title and Default Description for your pages, change the Default Robots field to INDEX, FOLLOW option so that search engines can index your website and show it in search results. When you are done, click Save Config button. Step 8 − To avoid duplications in URLs, go to the System → Configuration and under Catalog section, click on the Catalog option. Step 9 − Expand the Search Engine Optimizations option and set the Use Categories Path for Product URLs option to No. To prevent Magento from generating duplicate content when you want to show the same product in multiple categories, set both Canonical Link Meta Tag fields to Yes. After done with the settings, click the Save Config button. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Magento – Setup Newsletter ”; Previous Next Creating newsletter is a part of communication process with the buyers. Customers can subscribe to newsletters using Magento. Customers can sign up for the newsletter while creating a new customer account which contains checkbox for sign up. For creating newsletters, you need to enable newsletter option in your Magento to make sure that customers have confirmed to receive newsletter. Step 1 − To enable newsletter, go to System → Configuration and click on Advanced option under Advanced section on the left side navigation bar. Step 2 − Expand the Disable Modules Output panel, look for Mage_Newsletter option and Enable it. You can configure the newsletter settings as described in the following steps − Step 1 − Login to your Magento Admin Panel. Step 2 − Go to System menu and click on the Configuration option. Step 3 − On the left side navigation bar, go to Customer section and click on the Newsletter option. Step 4 − Then, expand the Subscription Options panel, select the Yes option for Need to Confirm field. Yes option specifies that customers want to subscribe to newsletter. Click on the Save Config button to save your changes. Creating Newsletter Template Before sending a Newsletter, you need to create a newsletter template. To create a newsletter template, follow these steps − Step 1 − Login to your Magento Admin Panel. Step 2 − Go to Newsletter → Newsletter Templates and click on the Add New Template button. Step 3 − It will display some settings related to newsletter template. Fill up all the necessary fields and click on the Save Template button as shown in the following screen. Template Name − It is the name for your template. Template Subject − It specifies the subject of the e-mail which would be received by the customer. Sender Name and Sender Email − These fields specify the name and e-mail of the sender which is to be sent to customers. Template Content − It provides text editor and allows entering HTML code of the body of the e-mail. Send Newsletter You can send the newsletters to your subscribers by queuing the template as shown in the following steps. Step 1 − Go to Newsletter menu and click on the Newsletter Queue option which displays the newsletter templates. Step 2 − For sending the Newsletter to subscriber, go to Newsletter → Newsletter Templates and select the Queue Newsletter option from the dropdown menu on the bottom right side of Newsletter Template page. Step 3 − The page that pops up provides some of the options as shown in the following screen. Queue Date Start − It selects the date when you are going to start sending the newsletter. Subscribers From − It shows both former and current subscribers list. Subject − It specifies the subject of the e-mail. Sender Name and Sender Email − These fields specify the name and e-mail of the sender which is to be sent to customers. Message − It provides text editor and allows entering message of the e-mail. Fill up all the fields and click on Save Newsletter button on the top right corner to send newsletter to subscribers. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;

Magento – Setup Google Analytics ”; Previous Next Google Analytics, is Google’s web analytics service for those who are actively managing websites. It adds analytics to Magento store including E-commerce tracking and conversions of their websites. It allows administrators to monitor their website”s traffic. The following steps help you set up Google Analytics in Magento store − Step 1 − Login to your Magento Admin Panel. Step 2 − Go to the System menu and click on the Configuration option. Step 3 − On the left side of the navigation bar, click on the Goggle API option under Sales section. Step 4 − Expand the Google Analytics panel which shows some settings such as − Enable option should be set to Yes to activate payment method Type option provides two types: Google Analytics and Universal Analytics Account Number accepts your account number Enable IP anonymization option should be set to Yes. After done with the settings, click on the Save Config button to save the changes that you have made. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;