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PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Overview of this book

PrestaShop is an open source, e-commerce solution which allows you to build a highly functional, flexible, and attractive online store.In"PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide" you will learn how to set up, extend, and personalize your own online shop. Newly updated to focus on PrestaShop 1.5, this book features descriptive and practical tutorials on everything you need to make a splash in the world of e-commerce.If you want to start selling your products online but are a bit daunted about shipping, tax, and designing your online presence, then this is the book for you.This practical book starts by showing you how to download, install, and configure your own shop. Using a step-by-step approach, this book takes you through the processes required to create a fully functioning online shop with the potential to make you serious money.With distinct chapters on the methods required to make your products stand out to your customers better, this title will enable you to create and customize a vivid, online presence to get people visiting your store and buying your goods.Targeting further sales, this book then shows you how to develop a targeted search engine optimization campaign to get new customers and keep existing customers returning. From here you will learn how to tackle complicated tax rates and shipping costs efficiently and with less hassle to ensure your customers are satisfied with your service.If you want to start your own e-commerce business using PrestaShop, then this book will show you how.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Preferences


The Preferences tab has everything you need to customize your shop in different ways. You will find the following subsections under the Preferences tab:

  • In the General subsection, we can set up security specifications such as the option to use the HTTPS protocol.

  • The Orders preferences subsection can be used to set up a minimum purchase amount, enable guest checkout, and offer a gift-wrapping, among others.

  • In the Products preferences subsection, you can choose to make certain products in your shop unavailable for sale. This is very useful when you need to do some restocking of your products or if you need to do maintenance. Also, here you can set up the number of products that you would like to show per page.

  • Under the Customers preferences subsection, you can choose to show the last shopping cart to your customers or to regenerate password to have a security minimum time.

  • The next subsection under the Preferences tab is Themes; we will dig deeper into this section later.

  • In the...