Managing the Magento Ecommerce Store


Course dates:

8th Jan 2010 - 8th Jan 2010

Price:

£320


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This is a one day introductory course to the Magento Ecommerce system. Magento is an awesomely powerful cutting edge open source ecommerce package that is quickly gaining a large following due to its impressive array of powerful enterprise level features.

This course will give you the background understanding and practical skills needed to get the best out of your Magento store. You will leave with a clearer understanding of some of the more complex principles in Magento and will learn how to leverage some of the core features of Magento to get the most out of your store.

Recommended for:

This course is designed for business owners or staff who are or will be running a Magento based ecommerce business. It will enable your business to get the maximum return on your investment into Magento by ensuring you and your staff are using the system to it's fullest capabilities.

You will learn how to:

Key Magento Principles:

MVC Code Architecture, EAV Database Structure, Module Based Customisation and Magento Connect

Magento Product / Category Administration:

Attribute Sets, The Product Types (Simple, Configurable etc), Cross Sell, Up Sell, Related Products and SEO Techniques

Magento Order / Customer Administration:

Orders, Invoices, Shipments, Credit Memos and Customer Details and Passwords

Basic Magento Configuration Options:

Payment Methods, Shipping Methods and General Configuation

Course outline:

Day 1

Lesson

Description

1

Key Magento Principles

A holistic overview of the Magento system and its core principles, philosophy and background.

2

Magento Product / Category Administration

Setting up the categories and products that make up your store and updating this catalogue. In depth coverage of the extra features of the Magento products system. This will be the largest element of the course.

3

Magento Order / Customer Administration

How to manage orders, customers, invoices, shipments and credits within the Magento adminstration system.

4

Basic Magento Configuration Options

A brief overview of how the Magento configuration works and a look at some of the more commonly used configuration options.