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An Overview of Configuring Customer Account in Magento 2

Customer Account is all the information that is given by customer when they register into your system and the customer’s experience during the registration process are determined in the customer account settings. In the customer account setting, admin is enabled to configure six factors following: Online Session Length, Customer Account Scope, Login Landing Page, New Account Options, Name and Address Options, Password Options.

Online Session Length

Default length of each customer session is set to fifteen minutes. The current session automatically ends if you do not have any interaction with keyboard during active time. After that, customers have to login to their accounts again to continue shopping. If customers set Enabled for Persistent Cart, in the next time they log in to their accounts, they still see the contents of their carts before.

Customer Account Scope

The scope of customer accounts is an active scope of these accounts in various website.

It can be limited to active within only the website where the account was created. In another case, customer accounts can be shared with all websites and stores in the store hierarchy.

Login Landing Page

Login Landing Page is a page that opened after customers login to their accounts. Admins are enabled to configure Magento store to redirect customers to their account dashboard or still display current page and let them continue shopping.

New Customer Account Options

In the Create New Account Options sector of the configuration in the backend, the basic account options are associated with more advanced options relating to VAT ID Validation and custom integrations.

Name and Address Options

In this Name and Address Options sector, the values can be determined for the prefix and suffix part in the dropdown lists for name of customers

admin can determine the values in the drop-down lists for the prefix and suffix part of the customer name.

Password Options

The level of security which is applied for password reset requests is totally controlled by Customer password options. In addition, this customer Password Options factor is used to determine the email templates for customer notification

and the lifetime of the password recovery link. Admin is enabled to allow customers to change their own passwords themselves, or set to only store administrators have permission to do that.

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An Overview of Account Dashboard in Magento 2

In Magento 2, Account Dashboard includes nine areas for customer to control their account. There are My Dashboard, Account Information, Address Book, Downloadable Products, Orders, Billing Agreements, Newsletter Subscriptions, My Product Reviews and My Wish List. Each area has its own feature, let’s check this article to get an overview of Account Dashboard in Magento 2.

My Account Dashboard

My Dashboard or Customer’s Account Dashboard records and presents all the detail of their orders such as order number, order date, receive address, order total, status and action with the order…. In this area, customers surely can follow their orders, manage shipping address, and control other activities with online store.

Account Information

Account Information section allows customers to edit their account information and change their email as well as password. For store admin, they also can update customer accounts and check the information to offer shopping assistance such as offers on customer birthday or more.

Address Book

Customer address book records the default billing and shipping address, and additional address entries.

Downloadable Products

Downloadable product contains lists of all products which are purchased on store website and links associated with particular product.

Orders

In Orders field, customers are able to see a list of their all orders coming out with a link to each product. If in the configuration, admin set enable for customer to interact with available orders, any order can be reordered just through simply clicking the reorder link.

Billing Agreements

Billing Agreements show exactly a list of any customer billing agreements.

Newsletter Subscriptions

When opening Newsletter Subscription section, you will see lists of all applicable newsletters which is currently subscribed by customers with a checkmark.

My Product Reviews

My Product Reviews records all of product reviews submitted by the customer with a link associated with particular review.

My Wish List

My wish list contains a list of product that a registered user can share with the other people, or pin to shift to the cart at a later date. Customers also can delete product in their wish list when they do not want to pin it anymore.

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A Complete Guide to Sign In Your Account in Magento 2

Features of Customer Sign In in Magento 2

For customers who already Sign In with your store, they are able to get a range of benefits such as fast checkout because all of their information is already recorded in their accounts and self-service with updating their information, check the status of orders and so on.

In Magento 2, customers can easily access to their accounts from every page in your store with an invitation “Log in or Register” displaying in the header. When completing log in to their account into your online store, customers can be redirected to their account dashboard or the page customers opened before still displays as a current page after they log in. Moreover, customers totally can reset their password if they do not remember at all with a reset link sent to the email address which is associated with their account.

The way to sign in to your customer account

Click Sign in button in the header of the store
When Customer Login page appears, fill your Email Address and your Password that you registered before. After that, tap Login button to finish.

The way to reset your password

If you completely forgot your password, on the Login page, choose Forgot Your Password?
When Forgot Your Password field displays, enter the Email Address that is associated with your account and click Submit button.

After that, a “Password Reset Confirmation” email with a link to reset your password will be sent to the email you have entered before if it matches the email which is associated with your account.

Tap the link in the email you’ve received, when prompted, enter your New Password and confirm again, notice that the new password has to meet the requirement. When you are ready to reset your password, tap Reset Password button to finish.

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An Overview of Persistent Cart in Magento 2

A Persistent Cart is a tool provided by Magento 2, which is one of the most popular platforms used by e-commerce businesses. Once this tool is enabled by admin in the backend, it will keep tracks of items that are added to cart but have not been purchased by customers. The information saved will be shown up in the next time that customer shopping on your store. In other words, a “remembered” customer can have their previous buying activities stored and be available for the next visit.

From a store owner point of view, a Persistent Cart can help to bring better shopping experiences to your customers, improve your brand image and gain more loyal customers to your store. Moreover, a persistent shopping cart can minimize the number of empty carts, which results in an increase in sales.

When the Persistent Cart is activated, registered customers are required to log in with their own accounts before going through checkout. For guest shoppers, they need to sign up with new account if they want to recover information from their last shopping.

In order to use the Persistent Cart, customers have to enable two cookies for their browsers. During the operation, these following two cookies are required:

Session Cookie: Is a short-term cookie. Its duration is only a single customer visit to your site. In other words, the cookies starts when a customer logs in and expires when that customer leaves.
Persistent Cookie: Is a long-term cookie. Unlike Session Cookie, Persistent Cookie remains functioning even when customers leave the store. This cookie also allow to record the contents of customers’ shopping activities for future reference. Persistent Cookie duration can be set to a period of time depending on your preference, but the maximum is 31,536,000 seconds (this number is equal to one year) set by default Magento 2.

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An Overview of Data Validation in Magento 2

What is Data Validation in Magento 2?

Data Validation in Magento 2 which can be understood as the checking process for all data before importing into store is completed to assure that the values are appropriate for the system database. To start Data Validation, in the admin homepage, click System, choose Import under Data Transfer, after that, Import field appears with Check Data button in upper-right corner, tap on that button and Validation is begun. During the process, all objects in the import file have to undergo five following checking factors:

Attributes

The value of particular attribute has to be suitable with all of the requirements of the data type and column header match the equivalent attributes in the system database.

Complex Data

Verify values contained in a set, such as multiple select input or drop-down type to ensure that all of them are defined.

Service Data

In service data columns, the values have to be persistent with standard in the system database.

Required Values

As for new objects, Data Validation does check the existence of required attribute values in the file but does not need to do with existing entities.

Separators

Data values in a CSV file are decided by comma, and text values are put inside double-quotes. Verify separators and sets of quotes that insert character series to make sure that all of them are correctly formatted.

Validation Result

After checking process, the result appears with three information below:

The number of objects verified
The number of invalid rows
The number of errors found

If the data is valid, you will see “Import Success” message displays.

If the data is not valid, the description of each error comes out, please read and fix the problem in import file to reach a valid database.

Appearance of Data Validation Messages in Magento 2

Success Import Message

Some errors of CSV import file

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