Installing & Configuring M2E Pro

We learned in the start-up guides, M2E Pro is an extension for Magento that can be downloaded just like the grids extension we installed together.

But M2E Pro is a special extension, this extension allows us to:

  • Sell our inventory that we have in Magento onto eBay, Amazon, Play & Rakuten
  • Collect our orders from these marketplaces
  • Keep our prices updated and our stock levels

And much, much more.

We’ll show you how to install & configure M2E Pro.

Lessons

1. What is M2E Pro?

Length: 7 minutesComplexity: Easy

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We're on to the cool stuff now! We'll look at installing M2E Pro and M2E Pro allows you to list your Magento inventory onto eBay and the other marketplaces. As well as bring all of your orders from the marketplaces into one place making it much easier to manage.

2. How to Install M2E Pro

Length: 8 minutesComplexity: Easy

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In this guide we take you through visually how to install M2E Pro. After a quick recap of what we will be doing we dive right into taking you through the steps in order to install M2E Pro.

3. Setting Up M2E Pro for eBay – Theory

Length: 9 minutesComplexity: Easy

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Together we look at what are the steps we will go through in setting up M2E Pro for eBay as well as introducing some new terms such as Policies. We will look at the different type of policies and then go through the 4 stages involved with setting up M2E Pro.

4. Setting Up M2E Pro for eBay – Practical

Length: 24 minutesComplexity: Easy

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In this guide we are going to take what we learnt in the previous guide and put it into practice on our own Magento system. Matt is going to take us through the 4 setup stages for M2E Pro so that you can follow along in your own system.

5. Adding Products to M2E Pro

Length: 15 minutesComplexity: Easy

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In this guide we take you through the process of adding your first product to a listing group. This is important as by using Listing groups it means we can use the 'Policies' we created in the last guide to create a listing group for similar products.

6. Where to Get Help with M2E Pro

Length: 7 minutesComplexity: Easy

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In this guide we cover the numerous ways that you can find support for the M2E Pro extension. The reason why this is guide number 6 is because we have to go through the setup stage first before the Help tab becomes available in the M2E Pro.

7. How to Setup the Magento Cron

Length: 6 minutesComplexity: Easy

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In this guide we take you through what is a Cron Job and then we look at how to set these up in Magento. A Cron Job is quite simply a task that we can automate to run at a specific time and / or on a specific date. We need to set up a Cron Job for a couple of reasons in M2E Pro. We are going to set up the M2E Cron so that every minute it will go and look for orders, and inventory changes in eBay.

8. M2E Pro Configuration Settings

Length: 9 minutesComplexity: Easy

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In this guide we are going to show you where you can access the Configuration settings for your M2E Pro extension. We will show you where you can access the different configuration options in M2E Pro and walk you through the different settings so you know where to find them and what they do so if you ever need to add or edit anything you know where to go.

9. Congratulations!

Length: 3 minutesComplexity: Easy

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We just wanted to say a huge Well Done! You have now been through the first setup stages of M2E Pro.