Magento 2 Sales

Magento 2 shipping methods refer to the different choices merchants can offer their customers for delivering their purchased products. This is an important part of the e-commerce experience because it affects customer satisfaction and can influence their decisions on what to buy.

Email Logo is inserted into the header and footer of a transactional email message. Similarly to the Store Logo, the Email Logo is also one of the best ways for the audience to identify your brand easily and at same time, your store becomes more reliable to the visitors. Therefore, right after installing Magento 2 successfully, the very first thing to do is replacing the Magento 2 Default Logo with your own one. If you send emails to spam boxes, you should enable SMTP. In this tutorial, you can find detailed tips and guides on how to set an email logo for your Magento 2 store.

In the previous topic, we discussed how to Configure Sales Email, and today you can follow these steps to configure Payment Failed Email, a notification email that is auto-sent to the recipients. This message informs the failure of the payment method when customers experience it in the checkout process. To make sure it is sent to customers’ inbox, you should enable SMTP.

When an order is created, online stores need to send a sales email or order confirmation to their customers automatically, and this can be done with ease via configuration in Magento 2. You can have an overview of configuring the Sales Emails from the topic: Change Store Email Addresses, but in this tutorial, I will give you the detailed guides to setup the sales emails in Magento 2. To make sure it is sent to customers’ inboxes, you should enable SMTP.

In Magento 2, the email template contains your logo and store information, so there is nothing more for you to edit or design. It is easy to customize by inserting variables and saving it in the backend, and then your email template will be available to use, or create a new one transactional email, follow up email.

Email Template List includes a variety of customizable templates while each template is corresponding to different activities such as Customer Account, Customer Activity, Newsletters, Promotions, etc.

Follow this post to learn how to change Customer Address Template in Invoices, Shipments, credit memo PDF in Magento 2. The address template will determine the format of customer address including billing address, shipping address and customer address information that are shown in customer accounts.

In this post, you will be instructed how to add Order ID and Customer IP Address in Invoice in Magento 2. The order ID and customer IP address will be shown in the header of sales documents like invoice, shipment and credit memo. Just follow the simple guide to allow displaying Order ID and Customer IP in your sale documents.

In this post, I would like to introduce how to create or change Magento 2 PDF Invoice Logo. As for Magento 2 Invoice, the default template is not beautiful with default logo from Magento. You should use your business logo to replace it and show on invoice to brand your business.

Configuring Newsletter in the backend is required if you want to create newsletters for your site. Newsletters are important documents to inform clients regularly of your store’s activities particularly as promotions, discounts or loyalty programs. It also is an effective method to communicate with your customers in a personalized approach. Thanks to that, you can attract new customers and recall current ones about the brand. Thus, setting up newsletters is the perfect step for customer loyalty.

In Magento 2, you can manage effectively the subscription list. You can view all subscribers, take action as changing status to unsubscribe and even deleting the marked subscriber if necessary. Whenever customers request to unsubscribe your email, you should take action in a short period of time to satisfy them, if not that may make your customers unhappy and build negative perspectives on your site.

To make your newsletters in the best practice, Magento 2 allows store admins to configure the newsletter settings and create a newsletter template. In the last topic, you have learnt about How to confifure Newsletter in Magento 2, and today, I will show you the steps to create the great newsletter template.

With Magento 2, you can send the newsletter to customer groups in the manual way after creating the newsletters based on the newsletter configuration and the newsletter template. Are you ready to send them to the subcribers in the exact time as you need?

Magento 2 RSS is important in transferring the latest content to your subscribers in case there are any updates. They no longer have to go to your store and check for themselves, which helps improve their experience and creates long-term engagement. Today’s post will explain what RSS Feeds is, how many types there are, and how to configure Magento 2 RSS Feeds in the simplest way. Magento 2 RSS: New products, Special Products, Coupons, Categories in Magento 2 What is RSS Feeds in Magento 2 Types of RSS Feeds Why need to setup RSS feeds for Magento 3 Steps to configure RSS feeds for Magento 2 Step 1: Log in to your Magento 2 backend Step 2: Configure RSS feed Step 3: Save configurations and check result Final words

Enable reorders in Magento 2 helps customer to reorder after they complete their purchase. This feature simplifies the process when customers no longer have to fill in all of the information again if every detail stays the same. Thanks to it, you can enhance customers’ experience and quickly boost your sales. Customers can make reorders immediately from their account or ask admins to reorder in the backend.

Flat Rate Shipping Method is a simple solution to configure the shipping method at your store. It charges a fixed shipping fee for any order with different sizes or weights or any shipping addresses. Because it is easy to configure and apply, the flat rate shipping is popular with many carries.

Configure Free Shipping Method is considered as a part of promotion program you offer customers. The free shipping method is applied based on the mimum purchase or the condition of cart price rule you set. In addition, the shipping method can be set for certain product or an entire order, which depends on your current strategy.

In this topic, I will introduce the easiest way to help you configure multiple addresses shipping that allows customers to have their orders delivered to more than one address at checkout page. In some cases, this feature is necessary for customers when they want to order multiple products and ship to multiple shipping addresses.

The Shipping Fees can vary according to different factors, such as the product nature, weight, distances, etc. Applying Shipping Table Rates to calculate the shipping fee based on the combination of conditions such as Weight v. Destination, Price v. Destination, and # of Items v. Destination. All are listed in a table rate file that you can export and import in Magento 2 settings. When the customer asks for a quote, the results appear in the shipping estimate section of the shopping cart. By using this, Magento 2 stores can create a convenient shopping experience for customers, reduce the support team’s workload and boost sales in no time.

Order Status indicates the state of an order during the handling process. It notifies both customers and store owners about the order progress, for instance, where the order is, whether it has been packed, shipped, or paid, etc. Magento 2 stores need to create order status to manage orders effectively, as well as build a professional image to customers. This post will refer to how to create custom order status in magento 2.

Store owners should clarify the shipping policy for customer during checkout. The shipping policy of each store will be different with each other, so to verify that customer know exactly your shipping policy is necessary for store owners.

Order Status Workflow in Magento 2

Configuring United Parcel Service (UPS) Carrier will help you associate any addresses in the domestic event or international. The number of countries that UPS shipping method supports by land and air is greater than 220 countries, so it is flexible to deliver goods.

Configuring United States Postal Service (USPS) Carier allows you to offer the domestic and intertional shipping services on ground or airway conveniently. This is the service of United States goverment.

Integrating DHL Shipping Methods into your Magento 2 store, your customers are allowed to ask for anything to ship, from goods to letters and documents, and more. The DHL is the perfect solution to focus on customer’s demands and free you from worries of shipping risks caused by unprofessional work.

Shipping carriers influence not only a business’s delivery efficiency but also customers’ order satisfaction. FedEx Carrier is one of the most reputable shipping service companies which offers many types of services to ship your products to customers regardless of distance like air, freight, and ground services. Enabling FedEx Carrier helps you attract more customers and expand your delivery networks.

In the previous topics, I instructed how to create the invoices and how to configure the invoices in Magento 2. In this post, I will continue with an easy guide to show you how to print the single invoice and multiple invoices in Magento 2.

I will introduce how to configure shipping label in Magento 2 in this topic. Let update country of manufacture and complete the store information to configure shipping label. If you have multiple stores and the contact information differs from the default, complete the configuration in your store for each carrier that you plan to use.

With Magento 2, it is easy for store admins to create shipping labels for both new and existing orders. However, before you begin creating the shipping labels, you need your own shipping carrier account from UPS, USPS, FedEx, and DHL, then complete the content of the package. In this tutorial, I will guide you in detail how to work with the shipping carrier, create the shipping labels and print them for the delivery. A single order is placed for each package delivered, and a single shipment with multiple packages will receive multiple shipping labels.

The Check Money Order Payment Method is the replacement of credit cards for online stores that customers can pay by check or money order. This payment method is normally set as default in Magento Community Edition 2.0 and you can now accept payments by check or money order. Actually, the check money order can be determined to be only approved for some specific countries. To manage Check Money Payment Method, you can follow the steps in the guidance below.

Being one of the earliest payment methods, the Bank Transfer Payment Method is still a popular payment method for every purchase in the world. Therefore, it is clear that Magento 2 allows you to configure the Bank Transfer Payment Method in the admin interface. This payment method also has the feature to only permit customers from specific countries to use depending on the merchant’s bank location and requirement.

Cash On Delivery is a type of transaction in which the customer makes payment to the shipping carrier when receiving the goods. This payment method is popular and convenient for buyers who do not prefer online payment methods but still want to send items to a certain address. With Magento Community Edition 2.0, you can accept and adjust Cash On Delivery payments for your store. Cash On Delivery payment method is approved by admins for only customers from specific countries and recipients can make payment by cash, check or money order. Scroll down to see its benefits and tutorials to configure in the default Magento 2 as well as Mageplaza Payment Restriction.

Commercial customers can be allowed to use Purchase Order to afford for purchases with anterior authorization by referencing the PO number. This payment method is usually applied for wholesale orders. This time, we would like to guide you to set the configuration for the Purchase Order payment method. Noting that before accepting payment by purchase order, you should set the credit worthiness of the commercial customer to avoid any risk during the payment process.

People will never say no to free products; therefore Zero Subtotal Checkout is the payment method needed for the order that its grand total equals zero. Zero-grand total order may be the result of a discount or applied coupon with free shipping or created manually by admins due to any problem happening with the products in the last orders. This payment method is enabled by default in Magento 2.0 and you can customize some advanced configuration in the backend as indicated in today’s post.

PayPal Express Checkout Payment Method is the most convenient payment method on the internet nowadays. It is confirmed that integrating PayPal on your store can increase conversion rate twice and raise the overall customers up to 29%. PayPal is trusted and used widely for its fast checkout; utility when accepting debit card, credit card and almost currencies in the world; as well as absolute security. For all the reasons above, PayPal Express Checkout appear on every online store. To manage PayPal Express Checkout Payment Method on your Magento website, let’s follow the steps below.

Authorize.Net Direct Post is useful for Magento websites that have a plenty of stores as merchants who can totally manage their checkout pages. Particularly, merchants have their own accounts on Authorize.Net and they will complete all checkout content and forms on their sites. In fact, this will bring more security for merchant payment information as the form is posted to Authorize.Net’s secure servers. It is clearly visible that Authorize.Net Direct Post plays the role of a third-party in the Magento site, same same as PayPal. However, with Authorize.Net, customers can finish the transaction process while remaining in the Magento store, instead of being redirected to the third-party website.

Braintree is a full-stack payment platform which allows your customers to check out by accessing credit and debit cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Android Pay, Venmo, Bitcoin, and more. With Braintree platform, you can easily accept payment from app or website.

Performing an effective shipping strategy is one of the most decisive steps which each store should follow to grow and scale. And packaging has a strong impact on the overall shopping. More and more e-business doers crack down on beautiful order packaging to attract customers. The packaging options exist in a dropdown for each Shipping Partner profile, and categorize each type of packaging that is support by the carrier.

Customers have their own preferences when it comes to payment methods, either due to convenience, security, or demographic factors. To answer this need, online stores need to offer different payment methods so that customers can choose whichever one they feel most comfortable with.