Magento 1.6 will not allow backorders of products. Before you can allow products to be displayed that has no stock inventory you should set your shopping cart to display out of stock products. After this has been done, you can then configure Magento 1.6 to allow backorders. This is done in the Magento Admin Panel. Read More >
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How to Display Products that are Out of Stock in Magento
By default, your hosted Magento website will not display products that you do not have inventory for. If a product has no inventory your website’s visitors will not see it. This can be problematic since you may want to pre-sell products before their release date or have the ability to back-order stock on your website. Read More >
How to stop Displaying Product Reviews in Magento 1.6
By default, Magento 1.6 allows your website’s visitors or guests to write reviews for your products. there may be times when you want to disable their ability to write reviews. Disallowing guest to write reviews in Magento 1.6 is done through the Magento Admin Backend. Log into your Magento Admin Panel. Go to System ->> Read More >
Changing the Year-To-Date Report Dashboard in Magento 1.6
When you first log into the Magento 1.6 Admin backend you are presented with the Dashboard. This dashboard gives you statistics or reports. If you are running the store on a fiscal year instead or a calendar year, you may want to change how the reports display. You can change the date in which your Read More >
How to Change the Logo in Magento
As you start to customize your newly installed Magento web store, you’ll probably want to change the logo that displays in the top right section of the header on each page. This can be easily accomplished in the Magento Admin Panel at any time. Uploading Your Logo to Magento In Magento, to change the logo you Read More >
Setting the Countries Options in Magento 1.6
Now, that you have installed your Magento 1.6 store, and you’re selling products on the Internet, you’ve become a global business. Anyone with an Internet connection could access your website. Magento server hosting gives the admin the ability to block access to specific countries. Also, “Postal Code is Optional” gives you the ability to select the Read More >
Updating Locale Settings in Magento 1.6
Locale options in Magento 1.6 define the local time and date settings as well as the weekend days of your Magento shopping cart. Weekend days are defined as the non-working days of the week in your area. Defining these days can help customers determine shipping methods and other aspects of shopping on your website. Setting Read More >
Changing the Magento 1.6 Startup Page in Admin
When you log into the Magento 1.6 admin panel, you will see the Magento Dashboard. While the dashboard may contain valuable information, it may not be the information you want to see when you first log into the backend. You can change the Admin Startup Page in the Magento 1.6 Admin Backend relatively easy. Please Read More >
Changing the Magento 1.6 Login to Case Sensitive
When you log into the Magento 1.6 admin panel, by default it is not case sensitive. Forcing the login to be case sensitive will improve the security of your Magento shopping cart and backend. It becomes increasingly harder to hack passwords if they are case sensitive. Changing the default setting to force logins to be Read More >
Disable the Admin Dashboard Charts in Magento 1.6
In your hosted Magento 1.6 Admin Panel the main screen when you log in is referred to as your Dashboard. The Dashboard contains statistics about your Magento Shopping cart. The dashboard in Magento by default displays charts with your cart sales statistics. You can turn these charts off. Disabling the charts in Magento 1.6 can Read More >
How to Add the Store Information to Magento 1.6
Magento 1.6 allows you to enter contact information so your website visitors can contact you. This information will be displayed on the website for your webstore’s visitors to see. You can add the “Store Name”, “Store Contact Telephone”, and “Store Contact Address” in the Magento 1.6 Admin Panel. Please feel free to visit our other Read More >
How to Clear the Cache in Magento
Magento by default includes a caching system to help improve the performance. When you make changes to your Magento website, you may not see the changes immediately. In cases where you want to see the changes you have made to your live Magento website, you’ll need to clear the cache files. Clearing the Magento cache Read More >
Adding Store Email Addresses to Magento
Magento uses three pre-defined email addresses in certain situations. By default, you can specify the General Contact, Sales Representative, and Customer Support email addresses. Each address has the default sender name and email address when you initially install your store. You’ll want to update these to your own email addresses during the configuration of Magento. Read More >
How to Change the Default Title in Magento 1.6
Magento 1.6 has a default title used as the meta-title on all non-content pages that do not have a custom title. You can change this default title to whatever you’d like. You’ll want to use a more descriptive title and it is easily changed in the Magento 1.6 Admin Panel. Please feel free to visit Read More >
How to Add a Custom Favicon in Magento 1.6
Magento 1.6 allows you to further customize your shopping cart by adding a custom favicon. By default, the favicon is set to the Magento 1.6 logo. You can add a favicon of your logo or change it to any other custom image you wish. Customizing the favicon in Magento 1.6 is done through your Magento Read More >
How to Edit the Footer in Magento 1.6
At the bottom of your newly installed Magento 1.6 shopping cart, there’s a footer that contains the copyright information. Magento 1.6 allows you to completely customize what shows up in the footer of every page in your shopping cart. Editing the footer and changing the copyright information is easily accomplished through the Magento Admin Panel. Read More >
Changing the Default Welcome Message in Magento 1.6
One of the first things you see when you visit your new Magento 1.6 shopping cart is the default welcome message in the upper right corner of the page, which reads: Default welcome msg! This is a simple customization and a good place to start on customizing Magento 1.6. In the last tutorial, we covered Read More >
How to Log into Magento Admin Panel
The Magento Admin Panel is your gateway to managing and controlling your e-commerce store. Whether you’re setting up your online shop for the first time or you’re a seasoned Magento user, logging into the Admin Panel is the first step towards managing your store’s products, orders, and customers. In this step-by-step guide, we’ll walk you Read More >
Creating a Voucher Template in OpenCart
Gift vouchers can be themed in OpenCart and allows you to easily create vouchers for holidays or events. If a visitor to your website purchases a gift voucher for Mother’s Day, you could have a template that themes the email with an image you choose to represent that specific event. Gift voucher templates are created Read More >
Adding a New Currency in OpenCart
Since the Internet is global; your customers may want to purchase or see the purchase price of a product in their native currency for the country they live in. You can easily add a new currency to OpenCart through the OpenCart dashboard. Log into your OpenCart Dashboard Go to Localisation >> Currencies Click “Insert” Fill Read More >
