Magento

About the Tutorial

Magento is an open source E-commerce software, created by Varien Inc., which is useful
for online business. It has a flexible modular architecture and is scalable with many control
options that is helpful for users. Magento uses E-commerce platform which offers
organizations ultimate E-commerce solutions and extensive support network.

This tutorial will teach you the basics of Magento using which you can create websites with
ease. The tutorial is divided into various sections and each of these sections contain related
topics with screenshots explaining the Magento admin screens.

Audience
This tutorial has been prepared for anyone who has a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS
and has an urge to develop websites. After completing this tutorial you will find yourself
at a moderate level of expertise in developing e-commerce sites using Magento.

Prerequisites
Before you proceed with this tutorial, we are assuming that you are already aware about
the basics of HTML and CSS. If you are not, then we suggest you to go through our short
tutorials on HTML and CSS Tutorial.

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Table of Contents
About the Tutorial ............................................................................................................................................ i
Audience ........................................................................................................................................................... i
Prerequisites ..................................................................................................................................................... i
Copyright & Disclaimer ..................................................................................................................................... i
Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................................ ii

PART 1: BASICS............................................................................................................................ 1

1. Magento Overview ................................................................................................................................ 2

What is E-commerce?...................................................................................................................................... 2
What is Magento? ........................................................................................................................................... 2
Why to Use Magento? ..................................................................................................................................... 2
Features ........................................................................................................................................................... 3
Advantages ...................................................................................................................................................... 3
Disadvantages.................................................................................................................................................. 3

2. Magento Installation .............................................................................................................................. 4

System Requirements for Magento ................................................................................................................ 4
Download Magento ......................................................................................................................................... 4

3. Magento Architecture .......................................................................................................................... 10

PART 2: STORE SETUP ............................................................................................................... 11

4. Magento Product Overview ................................................................................................................. 12

Magento Products ......................................................................................................................................... 12
Product Types ................................................................................................................................................ 12
Product Attributes ......................................................................................................................................... 13

5. Magento Set Up Languages .................................................................................................................. 15

6. Magento Set Up Contact ...................................................................................................................... 20

7. Magento Set Up Categories .................................................................................................................. 22

8. Magento Set Up Products .................................................................................................................... 23

9. Magento Set Up Inventory ................................................................................................................... 27

10. Magento Set Up Taxes ......................................................................................................................... 31

Set Up Tax Rates ............................................................................................................................................ 32
Set Up Tax Rules ............................................................................................................................................ 33
Import/Export Tax Rates ............................................................................................................................... 35

11. Magento Set Up Shipping Rates ........................................................................................................... 39

12. Magento Set Up Payment Plans ........................................................................................................... 43

13. Magento Set Up Payment Gateway ..................................................................................................... 53

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14. Magento Set Up Payment Methods ..................................................................................................... 55

15. Magento Set Up Currencies .................................................................................................................. 59

16. Magento Set Up Checkout Options ...................................................................................................... 61

17. Magento Set Up Paypal Payment ......................................................................................................... 65

18. Magento Set Up Google Checkout ........................................................................................................ 69

19. Magento Set Up Store Live ................................................................................................................... 72

PART 3: ORDER PROCESSING .................................................................................................... 74

20. Magento Orders Life Cycle ................................................................................................................... 75

Order Status in Magento ............................................................................................................................... 75

21. Magento Set Up Order Options ............................................................................................................ 79

22. Magento Set Up Order E-Mails ............................................................................................................. 81

23. Magento Create Orders ........................................................................................................................ 84

24. Magento Manage Orders ..................................................................................................................... 88

PART 4: SYSTEM SETUP ............................................................................................................. 93

25. Magento Set Up Customers.................................................................................................................. 94

26. Magento Set Up Google Analytics ........................................................................................................ 98

27. Magento Set Up URLs......................................................................................................................... 101

28. Magento Set Up Youtube Video ......................................................................................................... 103

29. Magento Set Up Facebook Likes ......................................................................................................... 107

30. Magento Set Up Translation............................................................................................................... 110

31. Magento Set Up System Theme ......................................................................................................... 111

32. Magento Set Up Page Title ................................................................................................................. 116

33. Magento Set Up Page Layout ............................................................................................................. 117

34. Magento Set Up New Pages ............................................................................................................... 120

35. Magento Set Up CMS ......................................................................................................................... 125

Pages ........................................................................................................................................................... 125
Static Blocks ................................................................................................................................................. 125
Widgets........................................................................................................................................................ 126
Polls ............................................................................................................................................................. 129

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36. Magento Set Up Newsletter ............................................................................................................... 131

Creating Newsletter Template .................................................................................................................... 134
Send Newsletter .......................................................................................................................................... 136

PART 5: OPTIMIZATION ........................................................................................................... 138

37. Magento Site Optimization ................................................................................................................ 139

Environment Optimization .......................................................................................................................... 139
Configuration Optimization ......................................................................................................................... 139
Code Optimization ....................................................................................................................................... 140
Frontend Optimization ................................................................................................................................ 140

38. Magento Profiling .............................................................................................................................. 141

39. Magento Database Performance ........................................................................................................ 144

40. Magento Search Engine Optimization ................................................................................................ 146

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Part 1: Basics

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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 physical
products or services (where the payment is made online).

Following are the categories of E-commerce:

B2B (Business to Business): This transaction is between businesses. It is

between the wholesaler and the retailer or between the manufacturer and the
wholesaler.

B2C (Business to Consumer): This transaction is between businesses and

consumers. In this type of transaction, merchants sell products to consumers
through shopping cart software.

C2C (Consumer to Consumer): In this type of transaction, one consumer or

customer interacts with other consumers through internet.

C2B (Consumer to Business): This transaction is between the consumer or the

customer and businesses or organizations where the consumer makes a product
that the organization uses it to complete the business.

What is Magento?
Magento is an open source E-commerce software, created by Varien Inc., which is useful
for online business. It has a flexible modular architecture. It is scalable and it has many
control options that helps the user to build both user-friendly and search engine friendly
websites.

Magento uses E-commerce platform which offers companies the ultimate E-commerce
solutions and extensive support network. Magento allows user to update E-commerce
website automatically. It is simple, quick and versatile to use.

Magento was developed by Varien Inc., and it was first released on March 31, 2008.

Why to Use Magento?

Magento is an open source E-commerce software.

Magento is scalable and offers small organizations to build business.

Magento enables searching and sorting of products in several ways.

Magento easily integrates with many of the third-party sites which are needed to
run effective E-commerce website.

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Features
Magento provides different payment methods such as credit cards, PayPal,
cheques, money order, Google checkouts, etc.

Magento enables shipping of products in one order to multiple addresses.

Magento helps to manage the orders easily by using the admin panel.

Magento provides order of product status and history of product. It also supports
e-mail and RSS feeds.

Magento supports multiple languages, different currencies and tax rates.

Magento filters the products and displays in grid or list format.

Magento makes it easy to browse the products. It has features such as image
zoom-in and checking of stock availability.

Magento has built-in SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

Advantages
Magento is user friendly E-commerce software.

Magento is compatible with smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices.

Magento provides multiple payment options, so every visitor can make payment
based on their preferred payment gateway.

Magento has many extensions which support the development of an online store.

Disadvantages
Magento uses larger disk space and memory.

Magento takes longer time to build the customized functionality.

Magento is very slow compared to other E-commerce sites.

Magento needs proper hosting environment. If the hosting environment is

improper, the user can face many problems.

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 2. Magento Installation Magento

This chapter provides step-by-step procedure for Magento installation. Before installing
Magento, you require the following system requirements.

System Requirements for Magento

Database: MySQL 5.1+

Web Server:

o Apache 2.x

o Nginx 1.7.x

Operating System: Cross-platform

Browser Support: IE (Internet Explorer 7), Firefox, Google chrome

SSL (Secure Socket Layer): A valid security certificate is required for HTTPS

PHP Compatibility: PHP 5.4+

Download Magento
Step (1): Open the link
https://www.magentocommerce.com/products/downloads/magento/, you will get to see
the following screen:

Step (2): Click on the dropdown menu, the archive file is available in .zip, .tar. gzand
.tar.bz2 for downloading.

Step (3): Extract the Magento web files from the archive on your computer and upload it
into your web server or localhost.

Step (4): Magento requires MySQL database. So create a new empty database and
user/password (for e.g. user as "root" and password as "root" or else you can set as per
your convenience) for Magento.

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Step (5): Open your browser and navigate to your Magento file path (for e.g.
http://localhost/magento) to start your Magento installation. Then you will get a screen of
the Magento installer as shown in the following screenshot.

Step (6): Click on Continue button and you will get Validation for Magento
Downloader screen as shown in the following screen.

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Here, enter the database details, if you want to check for InnoDB support for Magento.
Otherwise, click on Continue button to proceed to the next step.

Step (7): Next, you will get Magento Connect Manager Deployment screen.

It gives protocol name (HTTP or FTP), stability version such as stable, beta, alpha and
deployment type. Select proper options and click on the Continue button. It will start the
downloading process for Magento.

Step (8): Magento's Installation Wizard screen pops up. Check the I agree to the above
terms and conditions checkbox and click on the Continue button.

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Step (9): Next you will get the Localization screen for selecting the Locale, Time Zone
and Currency as shown in the following screen.

Select proper locale name, time zone and currency and click on the Continue button.

Step (10): The next screen that pops up is the Configuration screen.

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Fill the database information such as Database Type, Host, Database Name, User
Name and User Password. If you do not want to validate the Base URL, then tick the Skip
Base URL validation before Next Step checkbox and click on the Continue button.

In case the http://localhost/magento doesn't work, use this as base URL instead-
http://127.0.0.1/magento

This step will take some time as Magento will be creating the Database Tables.

Step (11): Now, go to the Create Admin Account screen.

Here enter your personal information such as First Name, Last Name and Email and the
Login Information such as Username, Password and Confirm Password for admin to use
in backend. Need not worry about Encryption Key field as Magento will generate a key on
the next page. After filling all information, click on the Continue button.

Step (12): Copy the encryption key, which will be used to encrypt passwords, credit cards
and other confidential information. Then you can select Frontend or Backend of new
Magento website.

Step (13): After successful installation of Magento, click on the Go to Backend button to
login to admin panel.

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Step (14): After logging in, you will get the Dashboard of Admin panel as shown in the
following screen.

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

The Magento architecture comes with Models, Views and Controllers.

User Request: The user sends a request to a server in the form of request
message where web browsers, search engines, etc. act like clients.

View: View represents the data in particular format. It is the user interface which
is responsible for displaying the response for user request. It specifies an idea
behind the presentation of the model's data to the user. Views are used to reflect
"how your data should look like".

Controller: The controller is responsible for responding to user input and perform
interactions on the data model objects. It uses models to process the data and
send responses back to the view.

Model: The model is responsible for managing the data of the application. It
contains logic of the data and represents basic data object in the framework. It
responds to request from the view and to the instructions from the controller to
update itself.

Database: Database contains the information which is requested from the user.
When the user requests data, view sends requests to the controller, the controller
requests from the model and the model fetches the required information from the
database and responds to the user.

WSDL: WSDL stands for Web Services Description Language. It is used for
describing web services and how to access them.

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Part 2: Store Setup

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

Product Types
Magento provides 6 different types of products. Appropriate selection of product type is
essential for accessing the appropriate set of features required to sell the product.
Following are the product types available in Magento.

Simple Products

Grouped Products

Configurable Products

Virtual Products

Bundled Products

Downloadable Products

Simple Products
These are general product type, which are the most used products. In this section, there
are no options for selecting size or color of the product. Example: Coffee cup, DVD's,
Camera lens, etc.

Grouped Products
This is a group of simple products. In this type, you cannot specify a specific price for a
product; you can just specify the discount. Example: Cell phone + Memory card +
Earphone

Configurable Products
In this type, customers can select products according to their color and size before
purchasing. Example: Cell phones obtained in different colors and sizes.

Virtual Products
Virtual products are those which do not have physical counterpart, i.e. these are used for
virtual items. These products cannot be shipped or stocked. Example: Online training
course.

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Bundled Products
Bundled products are those products which cannot be sold separately and doesn't give any
choice to the end user.

Example: Consider you want to buy a cell phone which includes earphone, memory card,
battery, charging cable, etc. These are together called bundled products. These products
cannot be sold individually but can be sold within the bundle product.

Downloadable Products
Products which are available for download are known as downloadable products.

Example: MP3 file, ebook, documents, etc.

Product Attributes
Attribute describes the property of the product. Product attributes helps to set product
properties such as color, size width, height, etc. and makes the product unique. You can
add as many attributes to your product as required.

The following steps describe, how to set up the attributes for products in Magento:

Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel.

Step (2): Go to Catalog and select Attributes from the dropdown menu and click on
the Manage Attributes option.

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Step (3): Under Manage Attributes section, you will find different attributes used in
the system. For adding new attribute, click on Add New Attribute seen on the top right
corner of the screen.

Step (4): Now you need to set the attribute properties for your product. After setting up
all the required attribute properties, click on Save Attribute button to store the product
information.

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 5. Magento Set Up Languages Magento

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.

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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.

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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.

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Step (9): Click on Create Store View button and enter the information for Store, Name,
Code, Status and Sort Order fields. 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.

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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 language will be assigned in the selected
store view.

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 6. Magento Set Up Contact Magento

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.

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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.

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 7. Magento Set Up Categories Magento

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.

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 8. Magento Set Up Products Magento

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Step (2): Go to System menu and click on the Configuration option.

Step (3): Click on the Inventory option under the Catalog section on the left side of
the screen which contains two panels Stock Options and Product Stock Options as
shown in the following screen.

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Step (4): The Stock Options panel pops up which contains some settings.

Set Items' Status to be In Stock When Order is Cancelled: It displays the

status of the item in the stock when order is cancelled. By default, it is set to Yes.

Decrease Stock When Order is Placed: It indicates whether the stock quantity
of the product should be reduced when an order is placed. By default, it is set
to Yes, meaning it decreases the stock of the products when an order is placed.

Display Out of Stock Products: As the name suggests, it displays the products
which are out of stock. By default, stock products are not shown in the catalog. If
you want the product to be visible to the customer, then set it to Yes.

Only X left Threshold: It is used to set threshold number. When the units of that
product have dropped to that number, it will display Only X left message on the
product details page. By default, it is set to 0 which means it is disabled.

Display products availability in stock in the frontend: It displays the

availability of stock products by setting it to Yes option.

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Step (5): Product Stock Options panel contains settings related to managing the stock
of the products.

Manage Stock: By default, it is set to Yes which means it specifies the number
of products per unit and it decreases the stock of the products when an order is
placed.

Backorders: By default, it is set to No Backorders option. If it is enabled,

customers can buy products even if they are out of stock. If you want to allow
backorders, then set this option to Allow Qty Below 0 (customers are able to
backorder the products) or Allow Qty Below 0 and Notify
Customer (customers can backorder the products which will be notified on the
shopping cart page of the frontend).

Maximum Qty Allowed in Shopping Cart: It is used to set the maximum

number of units per product that customer can order. This means customers can
order the maximum allowed quantity from certain product. By default, it's set to
10000.

Minimum Qty Allowed in Shopping Cart: It is used to set the minimum number
of units per product that the customer is required to purchase.

Qty for Item's Status to Become Out of Stock: It displays the message as
"Out of Stock", when the quantity of the product becomes zero.

Notify for Quantity Below: By default, it is set to 1 which notifies when stock of
the product reaches one. If you enter 0, it will disable the option. You will be
informing with RSS feeds. To do this, you need to go to Catalog menu > Manage
Products and click on the link Notify Low Stock RSS as shown in the following
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When you click on the link, it will ask for admin username and password.

Enable Qty Increments: By default, this option is disabled. If you set this option
to Yes, a field labeled Qty Increments will appear just under it. You can type
the number of products that make up a quantity increment.

Automatically Return Credit Memo Item to Stock: By default the products in

the order are not returned to stock. If you want items from orders that you refund
to be returned to stock, set the option to Yes.

Fill all information in the respective fields and click on the Save Config button.

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 10. Magento Set Up Taxes Magento

Magento allows to set up 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.

Step (2): Go to Sales menu > Tax and click on the Product Tax Classes option.

Step (3): Product class is a type of product that is being purchased. It includes two
product tax classes: Taxable Goods and Shipping. To add new product tax class, click
on Add New button as shown in the following screen.

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Step (4): Now enter the name for your product tax class in the Class Name box and
click on the Save Class button on the upper right corner.

Set Up Tax Rates

Tax rate is a combination of tax zone (such as country, state or zip) and percentage. You
can set up tax rates as shown in the following steps.

Step (1): Login to Magento Admin Panel.

Step (2): Go to Sales menu > Tax and click on the Manage Tax Zones &
Rates option.

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Step (3): Under Manage Tax Rates window, click on the Add New Tax Rate button.

Step (4): It provides several options such as:

Tax Identifier field defines the title of the newly created tax rate.

Country and State fields describes the country and state to which the specific tax
applies. You can select country and state from the dropdown options given.

Zip/Post is range (set to Yes) field which provides two fields, i.e. Range
From and Range To. These fields show the starting and ending of ZIP code range.

Rate Percent specifies the percent of the tax rate.

After completing the settings, click on the Save Rate button.

Set Up Tax Rules

Tax rules are entities that combine product tax classes, customer tax classes and tax
rates. Without setting up tax rules, taxes will not be applied. It determines how tax will
be applied on each order that is placed in the store.

The following steps describe how to add tax rules for products in Magento:

Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel.

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Step (2): Go to Sales menu > Tax and click on the Manage Tax Rules option.

Step (3): To add new tax rule, click on the Add New Tax Rule button in the top right
corner.

Step (4): It contains some settings such as:

Name field specifies name for tax rule

Customer Tax Class field displays the list of customer tax classes that you have
created
Product Tax Class field displays the list of product tax classes that you have
created
Tax Rate field selects the tax rate which you want to apply to this rule

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Priority field specifies when the tax should be applied to other tax rules
Sort Order field displays the order in which tax rules should be displayed

After completing the settings, click on the Save Rule button.

Import/Export Tax Rates

Magento provides support for exporting and importing tax rates to the webstore. You can
set up different tax percentages settings per different zip code. You can edit the rates in
excel and import them back.

The following steps describe how to Import/Export tax rates in Magento:

Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel.

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Step (2): Go to Sales menu > Tax and click on the Import/Export Tax Rates option.

Step (3): It will display the window as shown in the following screen.

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Step (4): When you click on the Export Tax Rates button, it will download the file as
shown in the following screen.

The spreadsheet includes Code, Country, State, Zip/Post Code, Rate, Zip/Post is Range,
Range From, Range To and Default columns. For instance, while installing Magento, there
is one tax rate for the New York. The US-NY-*-Rate 1 means tax rate number 1 for New
York which is 8.375 percent.

Step (5): You can edit the file and import the tax rates into your Magento store by going
to Sales menu > Tax and click on the Import/Export Tax Rates option.

Click on the Choose File button to locate the CSV file from your computer and click
the Import Tax Rates button.

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Step (6): On the Admin menu, go to Sales menu > Tax and click on the Manage Tax
Zones & Rates option. The imported data appears as shown in the following screen.

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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.

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 Shipping Methods
under Sales section.

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Step (4): Then expand the Table Rates section, enable the table rates by
selecting Yes from the dropdown menu for the Enabled field. It will turn off flat rate
shipping and allow you to specify different rates based on chosen criteria.

Step (5): Fill all the required fields as shown in the following screen and click on the
Save Config button. It will save your current configuration into Magento.

Step (6): If you want to modify the fields of table rates section, go to Current
Configuration Scope menu in the top left corner and select the Main Website option
from dropdown menu.

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Step (7): Magento allows to view or generate and download different reports. Magento
has integrated tools for CSV files generation. You can create the shipping rates in a
spreadsheet and then import them to your website. Click on the Export CSV button to
download the template. Upload the file into Magento by clicking on the Choose
File button next to the import option.

Step (8): After uploading the file, click on the Save Config button on the top right
corner to save the table rates.

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Step (8): The CSV structure will look as shown in the following screen:

The first column specifies the country where the shipping rate will apply, second column
specifies the region/state within that country, third column specifies the postal code of the
region/state, fourth and fifth columns determine the price for the shipping rate in which
these values represent whatever currency you have set for your webstore.

After completing this process, save the file and import it into your Magento webstore by
using the Import button.

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PayPal is a secure way for customers to pay online. This chapter explains how to set up
payment 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.

Step (2): Go to System menu and click on the Configuration option.

Step (3): On the left side of the navigation bar, click on the Payment Methods
under Sales section.

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In some of the payment methods, there are some common settings as specified:

Enabled: This option is used to enable or disable the payment method.

Title: It specifies the title for the payment method which will display during
customer checkout and inside order e-mails and summaries.

New Order Status: It represents the status of an order after processing of

payment. It will display either Pending or Processing choices.

Sort Order: During checkout mechanism, it displays the position of the payment
method in the list of all the payment choices.

Payment Applicable From: It selects payment from all or some specific countries
in which countries will offer the payment method you are configuring.

Minimum Order Total: It specifies minimum order amount available for the
products order.

Maximum Order Total: It specifies maximum order amount available for the
products order.

Step (4): Next, under Merchant Location panel, set the merchant country from the
dropdown menu.

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Step (5): It provides following types of payment methods which adds PayPal as
additional payment method to your checkout page.

Step (6): You can click on the Configure button to make PayPal settings. Fill the e-mail
field with e-mail address which is associated with PayPal merchant account for accepting
the payments and along with all other required fields.

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Step (7): The following screen shows you the Basic and Advanced settings of PayPal
payments.

Step (8): Under Basic Settings, enter Title for the payment method, Sort Order option
used to sort payment methods in the checkout page. Payment Action section offers to
select either Sale or Authorization or Order which defines how the payment will be
processed in the PayPal payment system. Under Advanced Settings, select
the Payment Applicable From option as All Allowed Countries and similarly fill all other
required fields.

Step (9): Next panel is Saved CC which provides credit card payments on your website.

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Credit Card Types: It allows for selecting credit card types for the payment
processing.

Request Card Security Code: It asks for the credit card's security code which
makes fraud little harder by setting it to Yes.

3D Secure Card Validation: It is an additional security functionality where

customer needs to provide credit card password to complete the purchase order.

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Step (10): Next is the Check/Money Order panel.

Set the values for Make Check Payable to and Send Check to options.

Step (11): The Zero Subtotal Checkout panel is a payment option that displays when
order total is zero and not required to enter payment details for the customer.

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Step (12): The Bank Transfer Payment panel contains one specific field
called instructions which allows to enter bank account details that customer needs to
transfer money to you.

Step (13): The Cash on Delivery Payment panel also contains one specific field
called instructions which allows to list information related to the cash on delivery
payment.

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Step (14): The Purchase Order panel contains same options.

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Step (15): The Authorize.net Direct Post panel contains some other options such as
setting the payment action, API login ID for authorization, setting the transaction key and
merchant name, setting the test mode to Yes/No, Gateway URL of authorization, setting
the accepting currency, e-mail of customer and merchant, types of credit card used for
purchase, and enable or disable the credit card verification as shown in the following
screen.

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Step (16): The Authorize.net panel works similar to the Authorize.net Direct
Post panel, with the only difference being it allows to enable or disable the 3D secure
card validation on the credit cards, which makes fraud little harder by setting it to Yes.

Step (17): After you are done with the settings, click on the Save Config button on the
top right corner of the page to save your payment methods.

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

The following steps describe how to set up payment gateway in Magento:

Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel.

Step (2): Go to System menu and click on the Configuration option.

Step (3): Next you will see some list of options on the left side of the page. Scroll down
and go to the Sales section and click on the Payment Methods option.

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Step (4): Under the Payment Methods section, expand the PayPal Payment
Gateways option. It provides two types of payment gateway methods; one is Payflow
Pro (Includes Express Checkout) and Payflow Link (Includes Express
Checkout). Click on the Configure button to enter details for Payflow Pro and Payflow
Link options respectively.

The Payflow Pro option is a customizable payment gateway, which can be used with
merchant account to process credit card transactions. It does not need PayPal account as
they can enter their credit card information directly on site and you need to add API
credentials in Magento admin panel. It is also used to process PayPal Express Checkout (it
allows customers to pay by credit card or from the security of their personal PayPal
accounts) transactions.

Under Payflow Link option, once the customer decides to checkout, the checkout process
is carried out on PayPal site. It is often called as hosted payment gateway that keeps the
customer on your site by providing fast and easy way to add transaction processing to
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This article explains how to set up payment 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:

Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel.

Step (2): Go to System menu and click on the Configuration option.

Step (3): Next, you will see some list of options on the left side of the page. Scroll down
and go to the Sales section and click on the Payment Methods option.

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Step (4): Next, under Merchant Location panel, set the merchant country from the
dropdown menu.

Step (5): It provides following types of payment methods which adds PayPal as
additional payment method to your checkout page.

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Step (6): You can click on the Configure button to make PayPal settings. Fill the e-mail
field with e-mail address which is associated with PayPal Merchant Account for
accepting the payments. Similarly, fill other required fields.

Step (7): The following screen shows the Basic and Advanced settings of PayPal
payments.

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Step (8): Under Basic Settings, enter Title for the payment method. Sort Order option
is used to sort payment methods in the checkout page. Payment Action section offers to
select either Sale or Authorization or Order, which defines how the payment will be
processed in the PayPal payment system.

Step (9): Under Advanced Settings, select the Payment Applicable From option as All
Allowed Countries, Debug Mode option as No, Enable SSL verification as Yes and Transfer
Cart Line Items as Yes.

Step (10): After you are done with the settings, click on the Save Config button on the
top right corner to save your payment methods. Now you are ready to accept payments
through your shopping cart.

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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 illustrate how to set up currencies in Magento store:

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 of the navigation bar, click on the Currency Setup option
under General section.

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Step (4): Expand the Currency Options panel, and you will get some settings option.

Base Currency: Select the base currency from dropdown menu that you want to
set as default. It is directly associated with the price of the products. If you change
the base currency, the price will not change and it won't recalculate using new
base currency.

Default Display Currency: It displays the default currency that can be used to
show the prices of the products. When customer visits your store, it displays the
currency set by you.

Allowed Currencies: It provides a long list which allows you to select more than
one currency. If there is more than one currency, then customers can select one
of the allowed currencies from the dropdown menu on the frontend.

After selecting your currencies option, click on Save Config button on the top right corner
to save your settings.

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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.

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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.

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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 Receiver 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.

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Step (9): After done with all settings, click on the Save Config button to save your
settings.

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In this chapter, we will study how to set up PayPal payment. Following are the steps to
set up PayPal payment in Magento.

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 of the navigation bar, click on the Payment Methods
under Sales section.

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Step (4): Next, under Merchant Location panel, set the merchant country from the
dropdown menu.

Step (5): It provides the following types of payment methods which adds PayPal as an
additional payment method.

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Step (6): You can click on the Configure button to make PayPal settings. Fill the e-mail
field with an e-mail address which is associated with PayPal merchant account for
accepting the payments, along with all other required fields.

Step (7): The following screen shows you the Basic and Advanced settings of PayPal
payments.

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Step (8): Under Basic Settings

Enter Title for the payment method.

Sort Order option used to sort payment methods in the checkout page

Payment Action section offers to select either Sale or Authorization or Order, which
defines how the payment will be processed in the PayPal payment system.

Step (9): Under Advanced Settings

Select the Payment Applicable From option as All Allowed Countries.

Debug Mode option as No.
Enable SSL verification as Yes.
Transfer Cart Line Items as Yes.

Step (10): After done with the settings, click on the Save Config button on the top right
corner to save your payment methods. Now you are ready to accept payments through
your shopping cart.

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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.

Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel.

Step (2): Go to System menu and click on the Configuration option.

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Step (3): On the left side of the navigation bar, click on the Google API under
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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 on the top right corner of
the page to save the changes that you have made.

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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.

Step (3): Under Manage Stores section, you will get website names, store names and
Store View Name columns. Click on the Create Store button to begin with setting up the
Magento live store.

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Step (4): The store information includes some options such as:

Website which allows selecting the website name which you created before.
Name option specifies name of your second website name.
Root Category option specifies the root category that will be used for store.

After done with the settings, click on the Save Store button.

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Orders follow a standard life cycle process. When the customer places product orders, it
arrives in the administration interface with a pending status. When the order is processed,
the status of order changes according to the 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.

Order Status in Magento

The following screen shows the order process in Magento:

New Order: Customer places an order into the Magento store.

Pending: Pending orders are brand new orders that have not been processed. These
orders need to be invoiced and shipped.

Pending PayPal: These are the brand new orders that have been not cleared by PayPal.

Processing: When you invoice the order, Magento will change the state to 'processing'.

Cancelled: This status is called when the customer visits the store and cancels an order
or else if the order has been not paid for.

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Order Shipped: Order shipment is generated when an order status changes from
pending to complete.

On Hold: Order is put on hold when more information from the user is required before
the purchase is processed.

Complete: When order is marked as complete, it has been both invoiced and shipped.

The following steps describe how Magento order life cycle works:

Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel.

Step (2): Go to Sales menu and click on the Orders option.

Step (3): Next, you can see some orders list. Click on the View link to see the order's
information.

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Step (4): You will see the customer's account information and billing address. When you
scroll down, you will see the history status under the Comments History section.

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Step (5): Click on Track and scroll down to the lower portion of the page. Under
the Items table, go to Track column which provides tracking options like Backordered,
Received or Returned when you click on the dropdown menu. Select your option and click
on the Submit Changes button to save your settings.

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Magento provides various options for product orders and also reports of the ordered
products.

Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel.

Step (2): Go to Report menu and click on Orders under Sales option.

Step (3): The Total Ordered Report has some settings as shown in the following
screen.

Match Period To: It matches the product ordered date with order created data
and updated date.

Period: It specifies the period such as day, year and month.

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From and To: These options display the date of order, i.e. they specify the date
on which the order was created date and the date up to which it is valid.

Order Status: It specifies the status of the order.

Empty Rows: If you dont want to specify empty rows, then set Empty Rows field
to No.

Show Actual Values: If you dont want to display actual values of product, then
set the field to No.

Step (4): You can get a report of the order by clicking on the Show Report button and
you can also save your ordered details in the CSV file format by clicking on
the Export button.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Magento allows to create an order from a shopping cart. You can create an order in
Magento store as described in the following steps.

Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel

Step (2): Go to Sales menu and click on the Orders option.

Step (3): Click on the Create New Order button to create new order in the Magento
store.

Step (4): It will display the list of customers under New Order section. If there are no
records, then click on Create New Customer button.

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Step (5): Moving forward, you need to select your desired store to proceed to the next
step.

Step (6): Under Items Ordered section, it will display the ordered products
information. If there are no ordered items, then click on the Add Products button to
select the product which you want to order.

Step (7): Select the product from the list which you want to order and click on the Add
Selected Product(s) to Order button.

Step (8): Scroll down and select the Payment Method and Shipping Method for your
order.

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Step (9): After selecting your payment method and shipping method, click on
the Submit Order button to save your order.

Step (10): To see the status of the order, go to Sales menu and click on the
Orders option. To see the details of the product, click on the View link as shown in the
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Step (11): Now you can see the account information and billing address of the customer.
Scroll down, you will see the status of the product and comment area under
the Comments History column.

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Order management is an important process which allows businesses to run smoothly and
keeps customers happy, making them more likely to visit your site again in the future.
When the customer completes the order process, you will receive a new order notification
mail.

The following steps describe how to manage orders in Magento:

Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel.

Step (2): Go to Sales menu and click on the Orders option.

Step (3): It will display the list of orders placed in the store. Click on any of the orders.

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Step (4): Next, it will show the order form. It includes information regarding the order
such as the account information and billing address of the customer, payment
information, status of the product and comment area under the Comments History
column, etc.

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Step (5): You can see the e-mail has been sent to the customer regarding the product
order. Create the invoice for the order and alert the customer that the order is accepted
by clicking on the Invoice button.

Step (6): Scroll down the invoice page and click on the Submit Invoice button.

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Step (7): Now the order will get processed and gets accepted into the system. Alert the
customer about the product order by sending an e-mail. Type your comment in the text
area and click on the Submit Comment button.

Step (8): The product is shipped and you need to update the customer on their order
status. Enter the completed order into the system and notify the customer regarding
shipping of your product by clicking on the Ship button.

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Step (9): Under Shipping Information section, click on the Add Tracking
Number button and choose your Carrier from the dropdown menu and put the tracking
number of your order and click on the Submit Shipment button.

Step (10): It will notify the customer regarding status of the product shipping. Type your
comments and click on the Submit Comment button to notify the customer.

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Part 4: System Setup

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 25. Magento Set Up Customers Magento

It is necessary to record customer accounts and customer registration process in

Magento. This chapter describes the customer settings 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.

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Step (3): Click on the Customer Configuration option under CUSTOMERS section on
the left side navigation bar.

Step (4): Expand the Account Sharing Options panel which includes the field Share
Customer Accounts that is set to Per Website value. This determines that customers
can use this account to login only on particular website. Next, expand the Online
Customers Options panel and set the interval time for Online Minutes
Interval option. By default, it is empty and value is set to 15 minutes.

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Step (5): The Create New Account Options panel contains following fields. Fill up all
the fields as provided in the screen and click on Save Config button to save your
changes.

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Step (6): The Password Options panel has some settings:

Forgot Email Template: It helps to reset the customer's password, if the

customers forgot their password.

Remind Email Template: It changes the template for particular e-mail

transaction.

Forgot and Remind Email Sender: It selects an e-mail address which sends
password message to the customer which are displayed from the fields of Forgot
and Remind mail Template.

Recovery Link Expiration Period: It specifies for how many days the recovery
link will be active for resetting password.

Step (7): The Login Options panel has an option called Redirect Customer to
Account Dashboard after Logging in which is set to Yes by default. If you set it to No,
customers will stay on the current page. After done with the settings, click on the Save
Config button to save your changes.

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Google Analytics, is Googles 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.

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Step (3): On the left side of the navigation bar, click on the Google 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.

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After done with the settings, click on the Save Config button to save the changes that
you have made.

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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.

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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.

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In this chapter, we will learn how to set up YouTube videos to your Magento store as
shown in the following steps.

Step (1): Login to Magento Admin Panel.

Step (2): Go to CMS menu and click on Pages option.

Step (3): You will get the list of pages where you can create a new page or edit an
existing page. Here we have selected the About Us page to add YouTube video in it.

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Step (4): On the left menu, click on the Content option which displays the information
of the page. The Show/Hide Editor button can be used to hide or show the editor.

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Step (5): Open the www.youtube.com website and find the video you want to add. There
is a Share button under the video, click on it.

Step (6): Under the Share button, click on the embed link. It opens a small text area,
then copy the code.

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Step (7): Go to your page and paste the code which was copied from the embed field
and click on the Save Page button.

Step (8): Open your website and you can see the video on the page you just edited.

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 29. Magento Set Up Facebook Likes Magento

Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus have become powerful for
promoting the web shops. Facebook provides "Like" button which allows users to share
contents of the products across the web.

The following steps show you how to add Facebook Like button for your Magento
products:

Step (1): Go to developer site of

Facebookhttps://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button and click on Get
Code button.

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Step (2): When you click on the Get Code button, a window will get appear as shown
in the following screen.

Step (3): Open the file, i.e.,

/app/design/frontend/base/default/template/productalert/product/view.phtml in the
Magento and paste the below code around the line 50.

<div class="fb-like" data-href="https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/"

data-layout="standard" data-action="like" data-show-faces="true" data-
share="true">

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Step (4): Go to the System menu and click on the Cache Management to refresh the
cache.

Step (5): Under Cache Storage Management section, select the items from the Cache
Type column for which you need to refresh the cache. Select the Refresh option from
the Actions field on the right hand corner and click on Submit button to refresh the
cache.

Step (6): After refreshing cache, logout from your admin panel and re-login. Refresh
your product view page to see the Facebook like button.

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You can translate Magento default frontend through csv file as specified below:

Look into your (root)/app/locale/en_US folder. There you have .csv's that do the
translating. The Mage_Catalog.csv contains the translations for all the files that use
the /app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/classes and/app/design/frontend/default
/default/locale/en_US/translate.csv template files. Here, you'll also
find Mage_Adminhtml.csv, which handles most of the admin translations.

If Magento translation fails, you should check the settings for store in admin panel, to
see if there is something wrong with your locale.

On the Magento Admin Panel, go to System menu and click on the

Configuration option.

Select the Configuration Scope of the store view in the upper left corner.

On the General configuration page, expand the Locale Options section.

Under Locale Options, set Locale to the new language for the store view and click the
Save Config button.

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This chapter describes how to install new Magento theme on your store's frontend. You
can use Magento Connect to install theme. For installing theme, you need to get the
extension key and then use it for the installation through Magento Connect.

We will see how to get extension key by using the Magento theme.

Step (1): Go to Magento theme page and then click on the Install Now button. You
need to register a new account or login with an existing account to get extension key.

Step (2): Check, I Agree to the Extension license agreement option and click on
the Get Extension Key button.

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Step (3): Click the Select Key button and copy the extension key.

Step (4): Now login to your Magento Admin Panel and go to the System --> Magento
Connect -->Magento Connect Manager option.

Step (5): Again, it will ask for login, enter your credentials to redirect to Magento
Connect Manager window.

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Step (6): Now under Extensions section, paste the Extension Key (that you copied in
step 2) and click on Install button. It will display status as "Ready to install" and click
on Proceed button to install the language.

Step (7): It will check for dependencies of packages and display the message as Cache
cleaned successfully.

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Step (8): Refresh the page by clicking on the Refresh button and go to an admin
dashboard page by clicking on Return to Admin link.

Step (9): To activate the theme on your store's frontend, go to System menu and click
on the Design option.

Step (10): To add a new theme, click on the Add Design Change button.

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Step (11): Select the theme from the Custom Design dropdown menu and click
the Save button to apply your theme for the store.

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Magento allows changing the default title of your website. The following steps describe
how to change the title of Magento store.

Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel.

Step (2): Go to the System menu, click on the Configuration option and select
the Design option under the General section.

Step (3): Expand the HTML Head panel and you can edit the title in Default Title field.
After done with the settings, click on the Save Config button.

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Layout files are useful in rendering front pages of Magento. Using Magento, it's easy to
change the layout of pages.

This chapter describes how to create page layout in Magento:

Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel.

Step (2): Go to CMS menu and click on the Pages option to list out all the pages of
Magento. Select the page for which you want to change the layout.

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Step (3): Click on the Preview button to see structure of the page.

Step (4): To see the layout of the page, click on the 3 columns option under Layout tab.
It will open the Page Information section. Click on the Design option. Select the option
as per your choice in the Layout field and click the Save Page button to apply the
changes.

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Step (5): When you click on the Preview link, it will display the changed layout of the
page.

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This chapter shows how to create new pages in Magento by using the following steps:

Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel.

Step (2): Go to CMS menu and click on the Pages option.

Step (3): It will list some of the existing pages as shown in the following screen. If you
want to add new page, click on the Add New Page button.

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Step (4): Next, specify the title for the page using Page Title field, enter the page URL
identifier using URL Key option. Enable the page using Status dropdown menu and click
on the Save and Continue Edit button.

Step (5): When you save the page, it will go to Content section asking heading for the
page using Content Heading field and page content. Click on Save and Continue
Edit button to proceed to the next step.

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Step (6): After done with the content section, you can design the page by
using Design section which has two sections i.e. Page Layout and Custom Design.

The Page Layout section contains a Layout option which allows to select a layout as per
your choice and Layout Update XML option inserts the XML code.

The Custom Design section contains fields such as:

Custom Design From and Custom Design To are used to set start date and end
date for the design change

Custom Theme option allows to select theme for your page using dropdown menu

Custom Layout option allows to select a layout as per your choice

Custom Layout Update XML option inserts custom XML code

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Step (7): The Meta Data section contains Keywords field which sets keyword for a page
name and the Description field specifies the description the given page. Click the Save
Page button to save your page.

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Step (8): Now you can see the page created in the list.

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Magento CMS (Content Management System) section is used to manage all website pages.
It is a way of promoting the products by providing valuable information to the customers
and increases search engine visibility. It can be used to create rich content for your web
store.

The CMS section contains following topics:

Pages
You can create or set up new pages in Magento. You can include text, images, blocks of
content, etc. For more information on setting up new pages, you can refer this link Setting
up New Pages.

Static Blocks
Static block is a piece of content that can be used anywhere in the pages. Magento allows
creating blocks of content that can be used through the store and can be added to any
page or another block. To create static blocks, follow these steps:

Step (1): Go to CMS menu and click on the Static Blocks option.

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Step (2): You can create a new block by clicking on the Add New Block button.

Step (3): Next, it will open a window for creating new block as shown in the following
screen.

The page contains the following fields:

Block Title: It adds the title for the block.

Identifier: It assigns identifier to block which uses lower case characters,

underscores, etc.

Status: Set this field as "Enabled" to make block visible.

Content: It includes content of the block and uses editor to format text, creates
links, tables, images, etc.

After filling all the fields, click the Save Block button.

Widgets
Widget allows displaying a wide range of content and placing it at block references in the
store. They can be inserted into pages, blocks or they can have blocks inserted into the
widget.

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You can create the widget by using following steps:

Step (1): Go to CMS menu and click on the Widgets option.

Step (2): To create new widget, click the Add New Widget Instance button.

Step (3): Under the settings section, select the Type of the widget and Design
Package/Theme and click the Continue button.

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Step (4): Next, it displays the Frontend Properties and Layout Updates sections.

In the Frontend Properties section, fill the following details:

Widget Instance Title: It specifies the title for the widget. It is only for internal
use and won't be visible to the customers.

Sort Order: It is used to specify the order of the block when listed with others.

In the Layout Updates section, click the Add Layout Update button and set
the Display On field to type of category where you want the widget to appear. It can be
set with the other options as shown in the following screen.

In the Block Reference list, select the section of your page layout where you want the
widget to appear and set the template with Link Block Template or Inline Template.

Step (5): Click Save and Continue Edit button to save your changes and continue
editing. Next, it will open Widget Options panel with the following options.

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Anchor Custom Text: It adds custom text for the widget.

Anchor Custom Title: It adds custom title for the widget.

CMS Page: It allows selecting the CMS page with the widget.

After done with the settings, click on the Save button.

Polls
Polls are used to get customer's opinions and preferences. The poll results appear
immediately after response is submitted.

You can create the poll by using the following steps:

Step (1): Go to CMS menu and click on the Polls option.

Step (2): Next, it will open a Poll Manager window where you can add new poll as shown
in the following image.

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Step (3): In the Poll Information section, enter the Poll Question and you can set
the Status to "Open" or "Closed".

Step (4): In the Poll Answers section, do the following:

In the Answer Title field, enter the answer as you want it to appear in the poll for which
you had entered the poll question and to weight an answer, enter a number in the Votes
Count field. When complete, click the Save Poll button.

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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.

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Step (2): Expand the Disable Modules Output panel, look for
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 subscribers, go to Newsletter -> Newsletter
Templates and select the Queue Newsletter option from the dropdown menu on the
bottom right side of Newsletter Template page.

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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.

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Part 5: Optimization

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Magento is a content management system that is commonly known to be performance

intensive. Optimizing the speed of your Magento allows customers to have the best user
experience while shopping in your E-commerce store.

Environment Optimization
Based on the additional configurations of the server environment, the hosting site
providers speed up your store.

Following are the tips to optimize Magento environment.

It uses complex database, so that it needs to be run on dedicated servers.

Magento application can be optimized by using cloud computing.

Merge your JavaScript and CSS files, which reduces the load time dramatically
since it is loading only one merged file.

Proper MySQL configuration is one of the most important aspects in terms of

performance.

Always upgrade to the latest Magento version as it offers better performance.

Use a web application accelerator which can speed up your Magento store by 80%.

Configuration Optimization
Magento has built-in tools that helps to optimize its performance. These must be properly
configured and matched with your site's unique requirements. Following are the tips to
optimize Magento configuration.

To speed up Magento performance, don't run MySQL and web server on the same
machine.

Do not host files on your web server that you do not use.

Optimize of session storage.

Enable Magento flat catalog. (Magento uses a complex and resource-intensive

Entity Attribute Value [or EAV] based catalog). After initial catalog establishment,
enabling the flat catalog can dramatically improve database query time.

Identify and disable unused Magento modules.

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Code Optimization
Code influences the speed of your site. The testing tools help to gain insight into the
specific process.

Few tips for Code Optimization are:

Remove unused or unnecessary code processes.

Optimize Magento performance, by compressing and aggregating JavaScript and

CSS files.

Compress all site images to optimal web image sizes.

Identify bottlenecks (processes that causes the entire process to slow down or
stop) both in front-end and back-end.

Frontend Optimization
These modules are used to improve the performance of Magento shopping experience
and you can also reuse the modules. This speeds up the performance of the Magento
front-end.

The following points illustrate how to optimize Magento front-end performance:

Use the latest version of PHP, so that you can perform front-end operation much
better and faster. The newest released version may cause errors, so carefully read
the release notes and check out the new version.

Use clean database to improve the performance of Magento. The database logs
needs to be cleared regularly. The database stores the automatically created logs
to keep track of record session and interaction.

Magento caching should be enabled. This helps to load your website faster and
reduces the direct requests to the server for files.

Turn off unused modules so it reduces the amount of resources added to each
page. This can be one of the Magento admin panel. The XML files are used to
speed up the front-end performance of Magento.

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The feature called Profiler which plays an important role in Magento development and
can be used for debugging. It specifies blocks of code which makes loading of the page
slow. Magento profiler reports the time taken by block of code to execute, number of times
the block of the code was executed and memory used by it while rendering a Magento web
page.

To enable the Profiler, follow these steps:

Step (1): Login to your Magento Admin Panel.

Step (2): Go to System menu and click on the Configuration option.

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Step (3): On the left side of the navigation bar, go to Advanced section and click on
the Developer option.

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Step (4): Expand the Debug panel and enable the profiler by setting it to Yes and click
on the Save Config button.

Step (5): At this point the profiler is enabled, but you need to tell the profiler to what
profile. So go to root index.php file of your Magento installation and look for the
line #Varien_Profiler::enable(); and uncomment it, i.e. remove the hash sign.

Step (6): Now go to any of your pages, you should see the output in the footer area of
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One of the most time consuming process of the Magento store is its interaction with the
database. Optimizing Magento Database is an important task to maintain the Magento
site. Magento saves a lot of database because of tracking. The E-commerce system must
have a tracking module which shows information when something goes wrong with their
order.

Following are some tips to improve the performance of database:

Unused data must be cleaned up regularly for better performance.

Optimize database queries.

Configure setting and limits of the database server (e.g. memory setting, query
cache, sort buffer optimization).

You can optimize Magento database log cleaning 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.

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Step (3): On the left side of the navigation bar, go to Advanced section and click on
the System option.

Step (4): Expand the Log Cleaning panel, change "Enable Log Cleaning" to Yes option
and click the Save Config button.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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