OpenCart 1.4: Beginner's Guide
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Installing OpenCart
- Installing OpenCart
- System requirements
- Installing OpenCart
- Downloading OpenCart
- Time for action – downloading OpenCart
- Uploading OpenCart files
- Time for action – uploading OpenCart using cPanel File Manager
- Time for action – uploading OpenCart using an FTP Client
- Time for action – setting file permissions
- Time for action – creating a MySQL database and user
- Time for action – using OpenCart Installation Wizard
- Summary
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Categories, Products, and Options
- Categories, Products, and Options
- Category, product, and option
- Pre-installed store categories, products
- Time for action – deleting pre-installed store data
- Categories and subcategories
- Time for action – adding a category and subcategory under it
- Have a go hero – adding more categories and subcategories
- Adding manufacturers (brands)
- Time for action – adding Reebok as shoe brand
- Adding products
- Time for action – adding a Reebok shoe model as a product
- Time for action – adding purchase options for customers
- Time for action – adding additional images for Reebok shoe
- Summary
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Tax Management
- Tax Management
- OpenCart tax system
- Understanding Geo Zones
- Time for action – adding Germany as a Geo Zone for taxes
- Tax classes
- Time for action – adding the Germany Geo Zone to the default tax class
- Time for action – setting the tax class for a Reebok shoe
- Time for action – displaying prices without tax
- Summary
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Configuring Store Settings
- Configuring Store Settings
- General Store Information
- Time for action – configuring General Store Information
- OpenCart and SEO
- Time for action – applying SEO for product pages
- Time for action – applying SEO for categories
- OpenCart and templates
- Time for action – installing an OpenCart template
- OpenCart modules
- Time for action – installing Google Talk module for Online Help
- Information module
- Time for action – updating Privacy Policy module information
- Running Multiple Stores in a Single Installation
- Summary
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Setting Payment Models
- Setting Payment Models
- Shopping cart system
- Merchant account
- Payment gateway
- Understanding online credit card processing
- OpenCart payment methods
- Time for action – configuring PayPal Website Payment Standard
- Time for action – configuring PayPal Website Payment Pro
- Time for action – accepting bank transfer on orders
- Summary
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Setting Shipping Methods
- Setting Shipping Methods
- Accepting orders from certain countries
- Time for action – shipping items to selected countries only
- Choosing a shipping method
- Time for action – configuring free shipping for all UK customers with orders of more than $100
- Time for action – configuring flat rate shipping for addresses in Germany
- Time for action – applying weight-based shipping method for US customers
- Activating multiple shipping methods
- Summary
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Offering Coupons Discounts
- Offering Coupons Discounts
- Coupons on OpenCart
- Time for action – defining a 10 percent discount coupon code for orders more than $200
- Time for action – defining $5 discount coupon code for certain items and free shipping for orders more than $150
- Setting special discounts for selected products
- Time for action – applying a special low price for a product for a certain period
- Time for action – decreasing item price to $10 for order quantities more than 40 for special wholesale customers
- Summary
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Understanding Order Lifecycle
- Understanding Order Lifecycle
- Order flowchart
- Placing the order
- Time for action – processing the order
- Summary
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Managing Customers and Users
- Managing Customers and Users
- Advantages of customer registration
- Important customer settings
- Classifying customers in groups
- Time for action – creating a new customer group and assigning a customer to it
- Sending email newsletters
- Adding customers manually
- Users, user groups, and permissions
- Time for action – creating a new user group, Product Entry
- Time for action – creating a new user and assigning to a group
- Reports
- Summary
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Localization
- Localization
- OpenCart language packs
- Time for action – installing a new language pack
- Time for action – editing the text in a language file
- Currency
- Time for action – adding a new currency option
- Summary
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Upgrading OpenCart
- Upgrading OpenCart
- Making backups of the current OpenCart system
- Time for action – backing up OpenCart files and database
- New OpenCart version
- Time for action – downloading the latest Opencart files, uploading them to the server, and upgrading
- Restoring to the original OpenCart version
- Time for action – restoring OpenCart system if upgrade fails
- Summary