What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction to Magento 2, covers what Magento is and what you can do with it, a comparison with the most popular competitors, and a walk-through of the new features of Magento 2.

Chapter 2, Installation, describes the system requirements for Magento, installing Magento on your local computer, selecting a hosting provider, and installing Magento there.

Chapter 3, Migration, explores how the existing Magento users can migrate their web store from Magento 1 to Magento 2, and contains a detailed guide and recommendations.

Chapter 4, Creating Your First Product, Images, Inventory, and Prices, teaches you how to add products to your store and include detailed descriptions, images, price, and inventory information.

Chapter 5, Attribute Sets and Custom Attributes, explains how to work with product attribute sets and product attributes.

Chapter 6, Product Types, describes all the supported default product types and working with configurable, grouped, and downloadable products.

Chapter 7, Categories, covers the management of categories in your Magento store.

Chapter 8, CMS Pages, Blocks, and Widgets, covers using pages, blocks, and widgets to add content to your Magento store.

Chapter 9, Managing Scope and Locale Settings, explains scope--one of the most fundamental concepts of Magento--and how to set it up.

Chapter 10, System Configuration, reviews the most important system configuration sections and fields in Magento.

Chapter 11, Working with Customers, teaches you to manage customer accounts in your Magento store.

Chapter 12, Admin Users and Roles, covers managing admin users, granting permissions to specific roles, and basic security.

Chapter 13, Taxes, explains how having taxes calculated properly is what makes you secure when you offer different types of products for different regions and different delivery points.

Chapter 14, Catalog and Shopping Cart Price Rules, teaches price rules, an essential marketing tool that brings your Magento store to a professional level; you can manage discounts and coupons based on various conditions.

Chapter 15, Processing Payments, gives an overview of the default Magento payment methods, setting up PayPal for your Magento store, and PCI compliance.

Chapter 16, Configuring Shipping, gives an overview of the default Magento shipping methods and explains how to set up shipping with UPS.

Chapter 17, Fulfilling Orders, walks you through order fulfillment; discover your options for handling order fulfillment by observing the life cycle of an order in Magento.

Chapter 18, Transactional E-mails and Newsletter, explains the setup of a newsletter and transactional e-mails so that the communication from your website corresponds to the website's look and feel.

Chapter 19, Reports, teaches you how to generate reports to track the activity and conversion rates of your Magento store.

Chapter 20, Customizing Your Magento Store, explains how to manage the Magento themes, use the inline translation tool, and review the Magento Marketplace to find new extensions, themes, and language packs.

Chapter 21, Store Maintenance, teaches you how to position the website within search engines, Cache and Index management, tuning up performance and Magento backups and how to upgrade Magento to a new version.