OroCommerce give ability to start checkout from multi source like shopping list or order itself by re-order , So the entity source for checkout should implement CheckoutSourceEntityInterface , like Order and ShoppingList entities . And Checkout entity has relation with entity CheckoutSource. 

This seven reasons will show to you why Choosing OroCommerce Over BigCommerce Or Shopify SaaS For B2B Project like Specialization Open Source Vs SaaS ......

By default, oro platform show all actions which get added to your data gird . If you need to hide or show some options depending on the data of the entry, you can manage by adding action_configuration which using a service that decides whether or not an action is visible for an entry:

Oro plaform is flexible system which give ability to customize CRUD page in admin for example you can add a custom section to edit order page and add new form or show custom details .

You can set all orders with selected internal statuses to be automatically cancelled past their “Do Not Ship Later Than” date. By default OroCommerce cancel all orders which has not null ship Until field or the current date grant than this field . 
So How you can customize this atomization for example the order which created before 60 days and still open cancel it .
OroCommerce system us Processes (processes.yml) which provide the possibility to automate tasks related to entity management. They use the main doctrine events to perform described tasks at the right time. Each process can be performed immediately or after a timeout. Processes use the OroMessageQueue component and the bundle to provide the possibility of delayed execution. 

The pricing bundle is the kernel of management of price system for OroCommerce B2B . In frontend  the price get showed by system layout based on service :

Multiple currency functionality in the OroCommerce is a useful tool for companies that do business internationally and negotiate deals in various currencies . and This feature is only available in the Enterprise edition.

Mobile devices are a growing technology that is steadily being used more and more for that Mobile UX is important , Falah OroCommerce Theme create best user experience for mobile.

OroCommerce by default gives ability to Sell products in real or decimal quantities with a minimum and maximum quantity limit. you can restrict customer purchases by setting a minimum and maximum quantity. by general configuration or by each product. Decimal Quantity allows the item to be purchased in decimal qty like 0.35 etc...

Falah is an OroCommerce theme with admin module. It’s customizable template, easy to use and fully responsive. Suitable for every type of B2B store (B2C).

An application programming interface (API) is a software interface which is designed to be used by other software for integration with this application, in this video you will explore web services API and how to create for your custom entity.

In the modern E-commerce system like OroCommerce dimensions of product image is changing related to current view for example in shopping list page the thumbnail has used otherwise in product view medium size has used and for zoom the system using the original one.

So to create new customer menu you need to :

    1. Create action and route for the menu item.
    2. Add the menu item to see it on Account section.

And if you want to show a datagrid for your menu, it’s simple :

    3. Create datagrid
    4. Add the datagrid to your layout

Let’s Started!!

OroCommerce give ability to user to generate multi coupons with many code dynamically ,  so the developer can use this system for generate coupons for example for custom user or specific cases.

OroCommerce give ability to organize your product attributes by group for example media group , price group … and every product family constructed from many attributes group  .

So when the customer visits the product view page in the frontend they explore all infos related to current product – attributes value – Divided in many container each one contain many groups .

In this video we well show you how to make a deep customization for you main menu, how to enable mega menu on specific section from your YAML layout , change behavoir from twig template .

In many cases you need to use full customer address form type or just some fields like country region or city , ok to know how to use firstly you should know that oro platform came with a bundle AddressBundle which manage global address structure for example address entity contry entity and region entity , this bundle give you ability to add form address or select box of country box and region too and managing relation between country and region by validation and events, as well you can using the phone field or email field (collection too) 

OroCommerce give you an advanced  segment management for entity products order or other entities , you can manage your featured products or new products by customization of segments this video show you how to use this features .

This video show you how to manage related products from administration add upsell , and configure max - min and other things

In this tutorial I will add Approved internal status: Approved — The order has been opened. You can cancel, mark as shipped, and close an approved order.
To see the default order internal statuses you can go to ‘oro_enum_order_internal_status’ table in phpmyadmin.

MIME Types Management is one of great features which you can edit and manage from admin , from genaral configuration or by entity in this video we well show how .

We will call our new Bundle CustomRelatedBundle , we’re going to add our custom related block section in edit product page like Related products and Upsell products , for that we well use EventListener inside

Oro platform came with default FilterBundle to manage filtering behavior on many places like build reports to create records based on field condition or activity or  segments  as well as to manage Datagrid it self based on field for example: show just records with specifics range price .

Iman is one of most popular OroCommerce Themes , and for OroCommerce B2B 4.1 Iman came with many new features , in this article we well list some new improvement.

Today we will add useful technique , by adding a thumbnail image to items grid inside admin order view , the seller need this feature to detect quickly which item has sold exactly .

In OroCommerce Migrations are a way of defining the schema of your database. OroCommerce provides a bundle for adding/dropping/modifying database columns and tables using PHP code, The OroCommerce Bundle based on Doctrine Migrations project which offer additional functionality on top of the database abstraction layer (DBAL) for versioning your database schema and easily deploying changes to it. It is a very easy to use and a powerful tool.

In the OroCommerce back-office, consents are managed from configuration section whith many technqiue , restrict buyers in the storefront from proceeding to the checkout or creating RFQs, unless they accept these consents or do not restrict buyers from working with the application and are usually used to retrieve permissions to send them email newsletter.

OroCommerce 4.1 LTS arrived with new feature which is assets management , you can manage your images pdf and other files type from admin for products , landing page ... this video show how to use it.

The last version of easy slider manager come with many features , inside ibnab  we have tried to adapt OroCommerce 4.1 for example we have support Content Widget  

OroCommece has an advanced web catalog to manage all frontend display related to catalog menu , products , landing page , So from admin Left Menu Products→ Master Catalog you have the ability to add all your category with many roots , and create restriction based to customer or customer group or localization , you can managing SEO , global product options by category …..

As all now every big system has a way to index the catalog on flat tables , not logic to make query for example directly on oro_proudct because they has many complex relation with other tables , So to get fast frontend display with best performance using a simple tables as source of data .

The default checkout system inside OroCommerce based on workflow ,So in backend from workflow you have ability to enable  multi steps or one page checkout .

By default oro came with many types of blocks the most important two is container and block . 
But many cases has a custom behavior for example pass a required variable to your block and using it inside the twig template.

In this video we will cover how you can customize OroCommece frontend by exploring the layout system

Quick demo to show how you can restrict the customer frontend view easily by OroCommerce - related to localization , Customer Group or Customer you can improve the user experience of you partner or customers .

In this video you will explore how OroCommerce stock and manage configurable field inside database and cache.

The configurable entity give you the ability the add custom oro configuration to your entity for example to manage it from administration By UI , So Your entity will support some new annotation : @Config and @ConfigField.

So you’re looking to automate the manual business processes, or an automation guru, The OroCommerce B2B whitepaper gives future-proof of workflow management plan with the use of flexible technology that grows as your business evolves.

So OroCommerce offer ability to define which Preferred Localization for specific Customer User with filed Preferred Localization Your can choose between all locale added from configuration. The field  Preferred Localization get showed just if you’re choosing more than one locale from configuration.

About  payment the big players is the table oro_payment_transaction which has all info about payment but the best thing in this table the 2 columns entity_class and entity_identifier which means that transaction might has a relation with other entities not just order .

OroCommerce organize page view by loading subpart-subtree. any view is constructed by many block defined by block_id when you make an event like add item to shopping or delete item from shopping list as result the layout system load and refresh some block related to this change for example for  -add to shopping list - the layout load the main_menu_shopping_lists_wrapper which means the top shopping list toggle and all informations content  (by adding the new items to content and chonging the items counts)

OroCommerce has been recognized as the future-proof B2B digital commerce platform by analyst firm IDC in a recent whitepaper titled 'Overcoming B2B Digital Commerce Complexity with a Future-Proof Platform'.

 The Mediator pattern enables communication (mediation) between views using a mediator object.

New Small Extension for OroCommerce B2B, Redirect to Shopping List Page Or Redirect to Checkout Or Inline Popup with shopping list info , from admin you can choose which action the system will make after click on add to shopping list 

Slick js library already included by default with OroCommerce , So the carousel which present  - Feature Products , New Arrival , Top Selling , Related Products , UpSell Products – is customizable , and you can change many options from YAML files with layout systems .

The Orocommerce B2B System manage static block by Content Blocks which are the foundation of your site and they can help create a custom layout. In Oro applications, you can modify the existing content blocks, or create your own

OroCommerce Product Quick View extension is an extension which helps customers to quick view product information by popup and adds items to shopping lists without leaving the current page for improveing the user experience and enhance conversion rates.

 Customer Reviews & Testimonials extension for OroCommerce adds credibility to your store and give new visitors a reason to buy in your shop online.It helps to increase your market values. You can add blocks to display customer reviews on different pages of your website

Form type extensions are incredibly powerful: they allow you to modify any existing form field types across the entire system, Or add new field to specific form with flexible way .

Ok we will try to add a form filed type to frontend registration form that means should have ability to view and edit the field from admin too.

We have collected here some useful snippets related to product to use inside php file and twig too , for exapmle how you can load Upsell or Related products even how to loading image by type inside twig file .

This video trying to show some points how you can start your B2C Store with OroCommerce and keep the B2B Features too . Never lose your B2B features every B2C store Owner have some wholesales partners which needs custom workflow and user experience for example custom prices by quantity – custom purchase lifecycle from add to cart to checkout – custom payment methods pr roles .  

Many time you want adding action button in admin product view or cms page view or other to accomplish some tasks how you can do that ?

Today we will add useful course , So you can add a thumbnail image to items grid inside admin order view , the seller need this feature to detect quickly which item has sold exactly .

The email template system in Orocommerce came with various  techniques to make it dynamic and more readable to last email recipient .

In this course we will talk about how listening save configuration event inside OroCommerce ,  and we’re going to use this event to update custom included CSS File Our Example Bundle

So in the home page we have FEATURED CATEGORIES section which show some categories with 
images and product count inside every category .

All Steps of How to Install Taymiya PDF Manager for OroCommerce , Taymiya Pdf Manager create pdf with template inside OroCommerce ,download or send by email , from grid or inside entity view

OroCommerce Layouts System (MVSC)
How you can use System layouts , OroPlatform give you the ability to use .yml . this system is simple and you can share data , work with expression insde Yaml files .

Quick video of how Install and Customize Free Saad Theme on OroCommerce B2B . How using command line . and customize css .

1 - Explanation :
The product get all linked product (related, upsell ..) on save with function getList inside Magento\Catalog\Model\ProductLink\Repository 
    public function getList(\Magento\Catalog\Api\Data\ProductInterface $product)
    {
        $output = [];
        $linkTypes = $this→getLinkTypeProvider()→getLinkTypes();
 

Magento 2 professional serie videos -kill  Eav for customer - give you the ability to play add remove show  add custom attributes  , customize events  , explore structure db and more ....
 

The Part 2 Recover:

• First way to Show atrribute field in frontend (edit customer section)
• Second way to Show atrribute field in frontend (edit customer section)
• Save Attribute Value to db by plugin
• How inject action around creation of customer (for example to vaildate phone number or send activation code before create customer , you can ignore creation of customer if the phone is not valide)

Magento 2 professional serie videos -kill  Eav for customer - give you the ability to play add remove show  add custom attributes  , customize events  , explore structure db and more ....

The Part 1 Recover:

• Some notes about eav (i have used phpmyadmin to explain this point)
• Add attribute to customer with Setup.php file (phone number by example)
• Show attribute in admin (edit customer section) and in frontend (create customer section)
• Save attribute value to db 
• Other point inside the course explore and create query mysql inside terminal , we worked inside docker and with netbeans IDE .

Small Video Tutorial of how you can create image uploader inside OroCommerce , and how you can render image inside data grid with custom renderer

What's happen if you want add custom data with specific pyament method , by example add custom input text which will show on check of payment method , ok let's start.
First create your schema file inside Ibnab/Additional/Setup/InstallSchema.php :

Inside views folder you will find folder layouts contain 2 floder of themes by example if you go to vendor/oro/commerce/src/Oro/Bundle/CMSBundle/Resources/views/layouts , you will find 2 theme blank and default as basic theme .
Inside everyone of it we have folders which named by (oro_frontend_root = home page or global declaration) (oro_cms_frontend_page_view = cms page view ) .

OroCommerce give you the ability to customize your header by combining many components and bundles like layout service management and other , first go to file : vendor/oro/customer-portal/src/Oro/Bundle/CommerceMenuBundle/Resources/views/layouts/blank/page/top_nav.yml
you need observe that is inside blank basic theme (the big parent of default and custom and other theme) the content is :

The checkout page contain standard fields , in many cases the site owner needs to hide some fields for specific reason , the system give you the ability to hide some fields directy from xml , you can add checkout_index_index.xml (copy same structure or just what you want from this path vendor/magento/module-checkout/view/frontend/layout/checkout_index_index.xml) to you theme or your custom extension and start hiding some fields .

Magento 2 have a good system for  organize the blocks by layouts, In Magento 2 that is more flexible . You can play by many ways .

We want show how the developers can play with all the puzzle (layout block template and structure), the framwork Magento 2 have a component called View ("vendor/magento/framework/View"), it have almost all needed class for manage the frontend view in back and font office ,
 you can inject the class Magento\Framework\View\Layout  by factory for get instance of layout class . let's imagine your contruct  in plugin by example is

Magento choose to use some interaction client as service (click) , for example when you try to place order you get url like rest//V1/guest-carts/:cartId/payment-information , ok but how you can see where is point this url ? Is a module controller action url ? Wrong is a service .

Orocommerce is new  b2b ecommerce system , this system will need customizable themes , and the frontend developer need know how use color picker field for give the ability to user for customizing the theme from admin panel ,

Ok orocommerce is built on top of oro platform , and the platform propose you a lot of form type , you can find all in path vendor/oro/platform/src/Oro/Bundle/FormBundle/Form/Type/ .
One of them is OroSimpleColorPickerType and OroSimpleColorChoiceType . Let's try using simple example of how you can use  OroSimpleColorPickerType .

Magento 2 is coming with great zoom effect in product page view , in this Tutorial we will try to  explain how you can customize the zoom behavior in product page , 

Infos About Payment Expressions

For flexible display and use of payment methods or shipping methods , you need explore and know how the rule expressions is working  , 
rules expression give you the ability to change the behavoir of payment methods , yeah : “ for example the Check/Money Order it will be availible just with some conditions and other not , if the customer have less than 4 items don't give him the option of Check/Money Order“ , with expression you can find solutions for complex cases “ what's about b2b ? ” ,
Orocommerce give you this big tool , for example in other system like magento you don't have by default “ you need add an extenssion for that like owebia shipping , but is just related to expression for shipping  !!!! ”

Pro Pdf Manager create pdf with template inside OroCommerce ,download or send by email , from grid or inside entity view .

Ibnab release new Magento 2 extension for Paytabs , This extends Magento2 to accepts money/payments through PayTabs . PayTabs is a Middle East based Payment Gateway

The search use 3 request name in magento 2 :

'quick_search_container' when you search from the small field text in the top

'advanced_search_container' when you use the advanced search page

'catalog_view_container' when you entre to category page or use filter in category page it's work by default

inside class Magento\Framework\Search\Search the function search(SearchCriteriaInterface $searchCriteria) build a request with class Magento\Framework\Search\Request\Builder; it's start by puched in object $this->requestBuilder the query name example 'quick_search_container'

For customize behavior of search you need know the mechanism of how Magento 2 stock and collect infos and how used  it, Now in Magento 2 we have in database catalogsearch_fulltext_scope1 and catalogsearch_fulltext_scope2 related to how many scope you have let's imagine you have 2 store one for English and other for Arabic ,  the system create 2 scope . And stock the map of search inside this tables , bot how ? Yeah let's go and see the structure of table ,this table have 3columns entity_id and atrribute_id and data_index

In WooCommerce the rest api is used to get data from orders , products , customers..
but how you can customize or add add other api route  to get (fields and value) , ok it's exist many techniques 
first work directly on the core for example inside

WooCommerce connector ready for OroCRM 1.10 , and the big feature is WooCommerce OroCRM Failure cart follow up email (on try to exit tab or browser) , persist cart and create abandoned cart.

After see many frontend developers peoples search for how call gallery in product list page , we decide to write small course (tutorial) for how done this task .Ok first you need create class helper inside your module , for example Ibnab/Common/Helper/Data.php and push the code

Establish bi-directional connection between  (Open source CRM ) OroCRM and WooCommerce ,you can import customer order coupons and abandoned cart to CRM , for centralize the management of sales marketing and reporting , OroCRM, it can be used for anything related to your store marketing, sales, and customer services ,The WooCommerce Connector allows merchants to get a 360° view of every customer , recover abandoned cart and recover order

Video give you the hand to create small module and add add category eav attribute programmatically (magento2.1 and 2.07)

Learn how a OroCRM Administrator can add or modify PDF templates (subtemplate) and how you can use those templates to download and email documents using the PDF Manager Pro

The checkout process in Magento 2 it's more practice and more abstracted with new generation ideas of user experience , in this course ibnab try to give you some key for customize the checkout page .

Saw the system use component for create and manage the page checkout, it's start from the layout checkout_index_index.xml in path vendor/magento/module-checkout/view/frontend/layout 

Ibnab almost finish a nice connector for OroCRM and WooCommerce , you can import customer order coupons and abandoned cart to crm , for centralize the work on sales and marketing

Ok the new generation of ui grid in magento 2 give you the ability to create or change grid  with xml file, this xml use extern php file for getting all part needed .
Our example here is the grid action like edit in catalog product grid or delete preview in page cms grid ,
ok we want add custom action .

Ok the xml responsible for ui grid of  product list in backend is vendor/magento/module-catalog/view/adminhtml/ui_component/product_listing.xml , and for action you will inside this file :

Without high technical knowledge , Easy Mega Menu give you the ability to create an organized menu ,
You have a lot of products , give a best user experience to customer :

Manual installation :

    download from store

    past in your folder app/code

    enable extension in app/etc/config.php by adding 'Ibnab_MegaMenu' => 1,

    and execute the command php bin/magento setup:upgrade

   and execute the command rm -rf var/view_preprocessed/  pub/static

   and execute the command php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

In the world of the big business  appear Oracle ATG Commerce , in many statistic It occupies an advanced position , yes the Magento 1   It has several elements to accommodate large-scale projects and it needs ,  But it lacks the tools by which tasks are separated, and the removal of conflict, the user experience in admin, default unit test tool , it's real and flexible system but with old mechanism  , In Ibnab we think the Magento 2 is here for taking  advanced position in this domain of big  business  and  large-scale projects .

In magento 2 paypal is implemented with module Payal , in case if the customer choose payapl as method of payment M2 use Magento\Paypal\Model\Cart in place of \Magento\Payment\Model\Cart , it used for collect items and amount and validate the infos collected before sending to paypal ,

The model have more additional methods as (it extend from parent Magento\Paypal\Model\Cart) :
getAmounts()  : Get shipping, tax, subtotal and discount amounts all together
_validate( ) : Check the line items and totals according to PayPal business logic limitations
_importItemsFromSalesModel() : Import items from sales model with workarounds for PayPal

Yeah after collecting the amounts and validate  let's consider we choose Paypal express , the checkout redirect the function Paypal/Controller/Express/Start Action but inside this action it use the global Api class Model/Api/Nvp.php

Magento 2 have some difficult for speed up workshop in frontend developement , the community try  to find a solution for that this tutorials is introduction for using gulp with magento 2 .

Magento 2 comes with many technique already exist in version 1 but with new way for implementing , one of this flexible tables (grids) in the system configuration.

We imagine you have  created module , we started from system.xml inside Ibnab/Table/etc/adminhtml/system.xml

This  course of series give you the ability for creating your own model resource and collection , ok let's imagine you want create a simple module for persist some data like brand infos for example .

1 – Create :

First we need create our table inside our database for that you need create the Setup folder ,The path complete of module is Ibnab/Brand , inside Setup folder create  file InstallSchema.php and fill with :

Magento 2 import export module give you the ability to implement it behavior(standard system export import)  with simple xml and general adapter . Some point before stated :
A – For import you need create import.xml inside etc of your module
B : You can create just import without export
C : Standard place to show of your  import module is form menu system→export or system→ import .

Magento 2 allow you to add custom field form as type image , for example when you click in edit link inisde grid you have edit page you can add from fields .

EAV system in Magento 2 almost similar to Magento 1 but many function and technique is changed , in this tutorials we give you 2 example of how adding custom eav attribute to category or customer .

1 – Create custom attribute for category :

Go to your model and create Setup folder , inside it create file InstallData.php and push this full code :

M2 system use  for read and execute (scriptSelector = 'script[type="text/x-magento-init"]' and dataAttr = 'data-mage-init' )  many js file like vendor/magento/magento2-base/lib/web/mage/apply/main.js  and scripts.js and vendor/magento/magento2-base/lib/web/mage /mage.js
you can find vendor/magento/magento2-base/lib/web/mage 
in normal case  you can declare as virtual :

1 - Infos About Store

Get Current store Id :
inject \Magento\Store\Model\StoreManagerInterface $storeManage
$this->storeManager = $storeManager;

and get the id with :
$id = $this->storeManager->getStore()->getId();

get base Url :
$baseUrl = $this->storeManager->getStore()->getBaseUrl();

Magento 2 Action allow the developers using $request $response and $resultRedirectFactory  objects without injecting (DI) by hand .
By extending \Magento\Backend\App\Action for backend action case or \Magento\Framework\App\Action\Action for global case , you have $request $response and $resultRedirectFactory .

1 – Request :

the top level parent class of action is Magento\Framework\App\Action\AbstractAction ,  AbstractAction injected by di with \Magento\Framework\App\Action\Context $context .

Magento 2 have flexible technique for manage Ui , have by default jQuery included , the teams of M2 include requirejs too on core , we call js with asynchronous method .

This tutorial give you in practice the ability of :

• - call js with requirejs
• - create custom js for manage ui .
• - use jquery widgets
• - create requrejs-config.js
• - additional technique like work with frontend_model button_url and attribute tags ,pass params between frontend_model and .phtml

In first tutorial we introduce the creation of system configuration , in this course  we explain how set and get the value (play with configuration).

1 – Set Value Configuration :

You can set the value of specific field  inside  stores configuration , by using the interface \ \Magento\Framework\App\Config\MutableScopeConfigInterface  , (magento2 by calling this interface with technique of preference give you as result a MutableScopeConfig class instance)
inject the class to controller or helper or block or anywhere :