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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

Time for action – how to add a product to PrestaShop


Let's add some products:

  1. Click on catalog and then click on product.

  2. Click on the Add a new product link. You will see the following screenshots. Okay, I admit it. It does look a little bit daunting. But actually it is not that difficult. Much of it is optional, and even more we will revisit after further discussion. So don't despair. There is a table of explanations for you after the screenshots.

    Field

    Explanation

    Name

    The short name/description of your product. There is a brief description and a full description box later, but perhaps a bit more than a short name should go here.

    For example, 50 cm golden teddy bear—extra fluffy version.

    Status

    Choose Enabled or Disabled. If your product is for sale as soon as you're open, click Enabled. If your product is discontinued or needs to be removed from sale for any reason, click Disabled.

    Reference

    An optional unique reference for your product.

    For example, 50cmFT – xfluff.

    EAN13...