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Just a quick post to celebrate the fact I finally got my install functioning, unforunatley I am not totally sure how to get products to display. Anyone fancy giving me a checklist to get started populating the store with dummy data?
1tempus fugit posted Wed, May 7, 2008
Catalog/Manage Categories - add a new category within the root category
Catalog/Manage Products - add new product
Create a couple of products in a couple of categories and hey presto you’re up & running.
Obviously there’s a great deal of furkling that you can then do (attributes etc.), but this is all you need for a quick start and to see Magento begin to work ....
2projekt11 posted Wed, May 7, 2008
Nice one mate.
I just got that done. Now I am wondering about payment processing, can i not use my standard paypal a/c?
Thanks again
M
3tempus fugit posted Wed, May 7, 2008
Sorry, I can’t help you with PayPal - I’ve not done that myself yet ...
4Cougar Networks posted Wed, May 7, 2008
I use a PayPal business account and it works great. I will be moving away from PayPal as soon as a Protx system is available though.
5nigeljh posted Mon, May 12, 2008
cougar,
just a quick quesiton for you ... i’ve been looking at the payment providers, and at the moment google checkout seems much cheaper than using protx ... google has a flat rate, but to use protx u have to pay their fees and then your banks fees as well ... any opinion ?
6Tim Deeson posted Mon, May 12, 2008
Hi nigeljh,
We’ve always done traditional PSP (payment service provider) integrations using SECPay (we’re partners), Protx etc. We integrated Google Checkout into a site we completed recently and while it’s definitely cheaper there is a different order of customer service too.
If you have any problems, want to do something slightly differently etc. then there’s not much help available. I suppose it depends on your requirements but there does seem to be two tiers of PSP with different sets of costs and service.
Thanks
Tim