3 Facts You Should Know about Order Confirmation Page in Magento Stores

What is the Order Confirmation Page?

The order confirmation page, also called the “Success” page, is a place that your customers reach after successfully placing an order and going through two steps of checkout process. To know more about checkout process in a Magento 2 store, we suggest you to click here to find out more details.

What does the Order Confirmation Page has?

There is a message appearing on the order confirmation page to verify the success of a customer’s purchase. The message includes a order code and a notification that the shoppers will be informed about the order details and its tracking information via email. The buyers can use this code to track out his/her purchasing activities and other related information. There is also a button named “Continue Shopping” with a link to the store’s Homepage to encourage buyers to continue shopping at the store.

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Notifications about the Order Confirmation Page

There is a difference about the content of the success page between customers who have registered for an account and customers who have not. For registered shoppers, the page includes all the information that has been discussed. They can also track the order status through a link to their accounts, and a link to generate a receipt. As for guests, apart from a order code and a notification, the email that they entered during checkout process is displayed on the confirmation page. They are also encouraged to create an account by clicking the “Create an Account” box and follow later instructions.

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Conclusion

That is all information about the Order Confirmation Page in a Magento 2 store. If you want to add or erase any item in this FAQ list, feel free to contact us. Don’t forget to Like, Share, and Subscribe to Magestandard for more informative Magento extension review articles.

 

Checkout Process in Magento 2 Stores (Part1)

After shopping in a Magento store, customers need to go through the checkout process to finish their purchases. There are several ways for that customers can enter a checkout page. They can click the Cart symbol on the upper-right corner of the store and select “Go to checkout” or press the “Go to checkout” button right on the product page (this depends on the configuration setting in the Magento 2 backend).

Once the shoppers chooses to checkout, they are browsed to a secure, encrypted page called checkout page. A padlock symbol is then displayed in the address bar of the browser, and the URL also changes from “http” to “https”.

After that, the necessary fields are displayed to gather the information of customers to complete the transaction. Customers are then led through each step of the checkout process. It is less time-consuming if a customer has already logged into his/her account at first as most of the information is automatically filled in the fields. Guest shoppers, on the other hand, have to complete the checkout process by providing necessary information to required fields.

There are two steps in the checkout process in Magento 2 store.

Step 1: Shipping

This very first step requires the customer to complete the shipping address information such as email address, customer’s name, etc…, and to choose the shipping method.

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Step 2: Review & Payments

In the second step of the checkout process, a summary of the purchase like items purchased, total price, shipping address, etc… is shown for customers review. Buyers also need to choose the payment method and type the promotional codes (if available) to apply coupons to the purchase.

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4 Easy Steps to Set up Flat Rate Shipping Quickly

Flat Rate Shipping is a basic shipping solution in Magento 2, generally used when some carriers offer flat-rate packaging. When users choose Flat Rate, a standard rate of shipping charge is applied for per item or per shipment, regardless of its weight or size. This means that the shipping fee is estimated exactly at the beginning.

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Flat Rate

Let’s discover how to set up your flat rate shipping in Magento backend:

STEP 1: Look for Stores on the left-side bar of Admin homepage, click Configuration below.

STEP 2: In the Sales section, click Shipping Methods and flat rate shipping configuration will appear.

STEP 3Click  on the right side of screen to expand the setting. You need to follow the instruction below

  1. Choose “Yes” in Enabled This action will allow Flat Rate method for customer to choose in the Estimate Shipping and Tax section of shopping cart and Shipping section of checkout page.
  2. Name your Flat Rate method in Title For example: “Flat Rate”, “Flat Rate Shipping”, etc.
  3. In the Method Name¸ enter the name of method that will appear beside the calculated rate in the shopping cart. If admin tap “Use system value”, this will be “Fixed”. But he/she is able to use other name that is well-fitted such as “Plus Handling”.
  4. The Type box is to control the use of Flat Rate Shipping:
  • “None”: this option is to deactivate the payment type. If admin choose this, the shipping fee of Flat Rate method that appears on screen is zero.
  • “Per Order”: a fixed shipping charge will be applied for each order. This means that with a predefined fee, customers are able to place as many products within an order as they want.
  • “Per Item”: a fixed shipping charge will be applied for each item. This means that the shipping fee will be estimated base on the quantity of products in an order whether they are one type of products or not.
  1. In the Price box, register the fee that you want to apply.
  2. The Calculate Handling Fee box is used to control your additional handling fee. There are 2 options to choose:
  • Fixed
  • Percent
  1. In the Handling Fee, admin need to enter the rate based on the chosen Calculate Handling fee. If admin chooses “Percent”, enter the fraction without the “%” symbol” such as “0.05” or “0.1”. If admin chooses “Fixed”, enter the amount of fee there.
  2. Enter or paste the Displayed Error Message to create a message box notifying customers in case Flat Rate Shipping is not available.
  3. In the Ship to Applicable Countries box, choose “Specific Countries” and select each country that can apply Flat Rate Shipping or click “All Allowed Countries” to allow customers from all countries in your store settings to be offered this shipping method.
  4. In the Sort Order box, enter a number to arrange the order of Free Shipping option in a list of methods. For example: 0 for the first, 1 for the second, etc.

STEP 4: Click Save Config to complete.

In short, here are all the details about Flat Rate Shipping we want to share with you. Don’t forget to Like, Share, and Subscribe to Magestandard for more informative Magento extension review articles.

How to Configure the Shipping Settings in Magento 2 Efficiently

Shipping is considered as the “make or break” point of an online transaction. It is simply because if the shipping fee is too costly or not offered via their preferable carrier or some minor stumbling blocks, a potential customer is willing to abandon her/his shopping cart and looks for another supplier that is more suitable. So, how to adjust the shipping function of a Magento 2 ecommerce website? In this article, we will go through the Shipping Settings in Magento 2 to find out the answer.

What is Shipping Settings?

This is one of the most vital function in Shipping. In this configuration, sellers inform the shipping policy and the locations of stores or warehouses where goods are placed. Additionally, sellers are also able to turn on “Multiaddress Shipping” option to allow their buyers to make an order to several locations.

Point of Origin

Point of Origin is simply understood as sellers’ addresses where goods are packaged and delivered via carriers. When customers register their addresses, the distance between them are calculated. Based on shipping methods, carriers chosen and tax rates of each regions, the estimated shipping fee will be determined and shown on customers’ screen. This will help avoid failure in shipping due to lack of advance information which are usually seen in e-commerce.

Note: For companies located in EU, please ensure that your Point of Origin accommodates well with Default Tax Destination Calculation of each store view.

Let’s look at how to set up your Point of Origin:

  1. Look for Stores on the left-side bar of Admin homepage, click Configuration below Settings.
  2. In Sales section, choose Shipping Settings and Origin section will appear.
  3. Click on the right side of screen to expand the setting. You need to register your address according to the requirements:
  • Country
  • Region/State
  • Zip/Postal Code
  • City
  • Stress Address (and line 2 if necessary)

In terms of Country, Region/State and Zip/Postal Code, you can click to use system value and your information will be automatically created.

4. Click Save Config to finish.

Multiple Addresses

This feature allows customers to place an order delivered to more than one address, which means that they do not have to create multiple bills as traditionally. The sellers can restrict the amount of addresses to be shipped in this setting.

To set up “Multiple Address Shipping”:

  1. Look for Stores on the left-side bar of Admin homepage, click Configuration below Settings.
  2. In Sales section, click Multishipping Settings.
  3. Click on the right side of screen to expand the setting.

You need to follow the instruction below:

3.1. At Allow Shipping to Multiple Address, choose “Yes”.

3.2. Set up the Maximum Qty Allowed for Shipping to Multiple Addresses.

Like Point of Origin, you can tap “Use system value” to automatically set up.

4. Click Save Config to finish.

Shipping Policy

Shipping policy is your terms and conditions related to shipping and needs to be agreed by customers. Sellers can set up to display shipping policy on screens when customers are checking out their orders as below:

  1. Look for Stores on the left-side bar of Admin homepage, click Configuration below Settings.
  2. In Sales section, choose Shipping Settings and Shipping Policy Parameters section will appear.
  3. Click on the right side of screen to expand the setting.

3.1. Choose “Yes” to apply Custom Shipping Policy

3.2. Paste or type your policy into the Shipping Policy field.

4. Click Save Config to finish.

Magento 2 Shopping Assistant (Part 4): Updating an Order

In the last three blogs, we’ve provided you the instructions to create, update a customer account, and create an order through the Magento 2 backend. In this blog, we’ll continue with the tool to help you Update an Order for your customers. Updating an Order includes the following tasks:

  • Edit an order
  • Place an order on hold
  • Cancel an order

To update an order via Magento 2 backend, do the followings:

Edit an order

  1. Log in with your admin account. Choose Sales on the admin sidebar.
  2. Next, select Orders under Operations.
  3. All your customers’ brief information are listed in the order list. Click the View link in the Action column that match the customer’s order you want to edit. You can use the Filters or the Search box to find your customer if necessary.
  4. Click Edit button. There is a notification displayed to confirm your action. Click OK to continue.
  5. After that, make the necessary changes to the order.
  6. When complete, tap Save to confirm the changes that you have made to the billing or shipping address of the order. Tap Submit Order if the changes are made to line items, and reprocess the order.

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Place an order on hold

An order is needed to be put on hold if the customer’s preferred payment method is not available, or if the item(s) in the order is temporarily out of stock.

To Place an order on hold, do the followings:

  1. Find the pending order that you want to place on hold in the Orders grid. Then click the View link in the Action column.
  2. Click Hold to place the order on hold.
  3. When the payment method is ready to use or the items are available, tap Unhold to return the order to an active state.

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Cancel an order

Do same as when you place an order on hold. Instead of tapping the Hold position, select Cancel.

The status of the order is now turned to “Canceled.”

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Now let’s practice yourself with the interesting Magento 2 Assistance tools.