Customer Product Reviews in Magento 1.6 Updated on December 28, 2020 by Carrie Smaha In Magento 1.6 customers have the ability to leave customer reviews on your products. We’re going to show you how customers create a review in your Magento store. Go to your front end of your Magento 1.6 website and select a product like a customer or visitor would do. Click on the link “Be the Read More >
Configuring UPS Shipping in Magento 1.6 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Carrie Smaha Magento 1.6 by default, has shipping for multiple shipping providers already available in the Magento Admin. This makes things easy is you use any of the major shippers such as UPS, USPS, FedEx, or DHL. To configure UPS shipping, you’ll need to log into the Magento Admin Backend. Log into your Magento Admin Panel Go Read More >
How to change the Default Currency in VirtueMart for Joomla 2.5 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. During our testing of VirtueMart, when we added our first product we entered the price under the assumption it would be Read More >
Configuring Free Shipping in Magento Updated on October 4, 2023 by Carrie Smaha Magento gives the admin the capability to easily configure free shipping. Free shipping can be a great selling point to convince your website visitors to make a purchase from your website. Enabling and configuring free shipping is accomplished in the Magento Admin Panel. Log into your Magento Admin Panel Go to System -> Configuration Select Read More >
How to add a Featured Product in VirtueMart for Joomla 2.5 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. In our last few VirtueMart for Joomla 2.5 tutorials, we have been deleting the sample data that was included with the Read More >
Set Up Flat Rate Shipping for a Specific Country in Magento Updated on October 4, 2023 by Carrie Smaha Magento has a lot of different configurable shipping options. You can easily set up flat rate shipping for the country you are located in. Setting up flat rate shipping for a specific country is done in the Magento backend. Log into your Magento Admin Panel. Go to System -> Configuration. Select “Shipping Methods” from the Read More >
Labeling a Product Out of Stock in Magento 1.6 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Carrie Smaha At any time, you can mark a product out of stock even if you have quanitities of the product. One instance where you may use this technique is if you have a brick and mortar location. If your inventory is shared amongst the online and physical locations, you may want to mark a product out Read More >
Allowing Backorders for Specifc Products in Magento 1.6 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Carrie Smaha Depending on how your configuration is set for Magento 1.6 you may not be able to allow backorders. You can configure each individual product to allow backorders. This is easily accomplished in the Magento 1.6 Admin Backend. Log into your Magento Admin Panel Go to Catalog -> Manage Products Select the product you wish to Read More >
Disabling or Enabling gift messages on Products in Magento 1.6 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Carrie Smaha Since you have the ability to add gift messages to the entire order or individual items in the order in Magento 1.6, you also have the abiity enable and disable gift messages for individual products from the Magento 1.6 Admin Dashboard. This allows your customer to further customize their order and add a personalized message Read More >
How to change your Site Title in VirtueMart for Joomla 2.5 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. In our last VirtueMart for Joomla 2.5 tutorial, we showed you how to update the description text on your store’s homepage. Read More >
Adding a Gift Message to Orders in Magento 1.6 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Carrie Smaha In Magento 1.6, you have the ability to allow your customers to add a gift message to the order. This is a great feature especially if you expect to sell products or goods during the Holiday season. Enabling year around allows website visitors to add a gift message for any reason such as birthdays or Read More >
How to change the front page text in VirtueMart for Joomla 2.5 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. In our last few VirtueMart for Joomla 2.5 tutorials, we have been working with cleaning up our storefront. This has included Read More >
Setting a Special Price for Products in Magento 1.6 Updated on September 14, 2023 by Carrie Smaha In Magento 1.6, you can specify a “special” price for products for a certain date range. This allows you to automatically manage “specials” or sales. Setting up a special price for a product is done in the Magento 1.6 Admin Backend. Log into your Magento Admin Panel Go to Catalog ->> Manage Products. Click on Read More >
How to Delete Products in VirtueMart for Joomla 2.5 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. In our last article, we showed you how to delete product categories in VirtueMart for Joomla 2.5. We are doing this Read More >
How to Delete a VirtueMart Product Category in Joomla 2.5 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. Now that we’ve created our first product category, we can delete the test categories that were included with the sample data Read More >
Disabling Products in Magento 1.6 Updated on September 14, 2023 by Carrie Smaha If some of your products will be out of stock for a long time or indefinitely you may want to simply disable the product. This will allow you to keep the product and all of its settings in the Magento 1.6 Backend so you do not need to re-create it in the future. Disabling a Read More >
Deleting Products in Magento 1.6 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Carrie Smaha Once your Magento 1.6 store is up and running you may change which products your store carries. In cases like this, you may want to actually delete or remove products from your store. Deleting products is easily accomplished in the Magento 1.6 backend panel. Log into your Magento Admin Panel Go to Catalog ->> Manage Read More >
Adding Products in Magento Updated on September 14, 2023 by Carrie Smaha Adding products in Magento is important since you want your website visitors to be able to find and purchase the goods and services you have for sale. You can add products to your hosted Magento web store in the backend admin panel. Log into your Magento Admin Panel. Go to Catalog ->> Manage Products. Click Read More >
Deleting Product Categories in Magento 1.6 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Carrie Smaha In the previous tutorial we showed you how to create product categories to better organize your products. At any time, you can delete product categories. Product catergories are deleted through the Magento 1.6 Admin Panel. Log into your Magento Admin Panel Go to Category ->> Manage Category Click on the Product Category you want to Read More >
Creating Product Categories in Magento Updated on September 14, 2023 by Carrie Smaha Magento allows you to categorize all your products into groups. this helps to better organize your product base making it easier for your customers to find your products. The groups are referred to as categories and can be created in the Magento Backend. Not a current customer? Learn more about our Magento hosting plans!
