Magento v1.6

Many site owners want customers to be able to access their Magento Hosting catalog via normal http protocol, but switch over to https (secure) protocol for checkouts. This helps secure the data and prevent snooping or insecure data collection that can result in identity theft or other malicious activities. To enable Magento to function with Read More >

When a customer of your Magento 1.6 website leaves a review, you must approve it before it will show up on the site. If you have a review to approve you can do that in the Magento hosting Admin Backend. Log into your Magento Admin Panel Go to Catalog -> Reviews & Ratings -> Customer Read More >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 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 >

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 >

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!

During the installation process we set up the admin username as “admin”. While this is easy to use, it can be guessed easily by hackers. It’s best practice to change your username for your admin account in Magento 1.6 to something that hackers and unwanted guests will less likely guess. You can change the admin Read More >

When you first installed Magento 1.6 you added the admin email address to your account. At times you may find it necessary to update this email address to something else. This can easily be done in the Magento 1.6 Admin Panel. Log into your Magento Admin Panel Go to System ->> My Account Type in Read More >

Hosting Magento 1.6 gives you access to its powerful content management system built into the backend. You can disable any of the static CMS pages without deleting them. This can be handy if you need to “turn off” a page for a specific time. This saves the administrator time since the static page does not Read More >