Magento Tutorial

Magento  Tutorial

Magento is a complete e-commerce web application, it was launched on March 31, 2008. It allows a merchant to design and configure their web application according to their requirements. The good thing is Magento is completely open-source, anyone can use it without paying. Magento admin can manage content, interface and all marketing and merchandising tools from the admin panel. Admin can design unique web applications according to their use without writing any coding. Over 25% of world e-commerce web applications are developed using Magento only. One can also write code if they want, In that case, they just have to learn PHP programming and database.

Why do we need to learn Magento?

There are many e-commerce open sources available, but Magento contains all in one. A few points why we need to learn it are given below.

• Easy to manage inventory, store, and cms for online.
• Almost all the important things which you may need as an e-commerce developer is available. And once you learn Magento than your understanding toward e-commerce will be very clear.
• Most of the time its functionality is suits to any business requirements.
• It has features like Enterprise edition.
• You do not have to worry about future scalability, as Magento has been designed in such a way that it will sustain in any small to large business. So if your business grow you can scale applications also.
• Because it started very early thousands of Magento plugins as open source has been developed by many people, which you can directly use in your web application.
• As Magento is an open-source any startup can use it and they can extend if they grow.

Applications of Magento

If you go to any e-commerce website like amazon or Flipkart, you will see there are login, add cart, delete cart. From cart to buy now to payment, everything can be designed by any Magento admin users without writing a single line of code with great performance.

It’s not only about this, it can be design your products from it’s color to position and description to its design by any admin.

Example

In Below example we are showing a very basic features available in Magento admin you can see after login we have option to manage various attributes of e-commerce.

• manage customers: In this section, admin can handle and manage all the customers registered on your e-commerce website. It can be, like sending notifications, giving some coupons for any specific reason to any customer.
• manage reports: You generate monthly, weekly reports for sells and for other activities and for many more.
• manage catalog: Here In this section you can manage your products, categories. You can upload images of products and many things related to your products and inventories.

Prerequisites

You should have a minimum understanding of any online shopping applications and how any e-commerce works. But if you want to  customize everything and also want to do some coding than you need to learn PHP , some MVC modules and Database(mysql preferred).

Target Audience

A PHP Developer : Any PHP developers with an understanding of attributes of any e-commerce website.

An Admin : A user with only understanding of his or her business need and what exactly he wants to show to end customers as web site.