Now that we have products, configured e-mails, payments, and shipping and had a closer look at our store's appearance, it's time to start doing some real sales! But what happens once we do? How do we keep track of our orders, deliveries, and invoices after that? This chapter describes exactly those processes.
In this chapter, you will learn:
So far in the previous chapters we've spent lots and lots of time in the Magento backend. Except for the chapter about themes, you've hardly spent any time in looking at what your customers will see in the frontend. And that isn't good, because the end result of your work is of course why you're taking all the steps from the earlier chapters.
Since we have already taken a lot of steps to prepare ourselves it's time to have a closer look at what your customers will see when they are visiting your store. Of course the look and feel of your web shop highly depends on the theme you've chosen. To keep everything as standardized as possible, we'll be using the default Magento theme throughout this chapter. And we're using the sample data available to decently fill the store. Let's do some sales orders!