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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 – using PrestaShop's features


Here we will implement a range of features and values. I am using the country of origin example; you can choose what is appropriate to your product range.

  1. Click on Catalog | Features.

  2. Now click on Add new feature and type the name of your first feature and then click on Save.

  3. Next click on the Add new feature value button and type the name of the first value of this feature. Select from the drop-down list the new feature, and then click on Save.

  4. Repeat step 3 for all values of that feature.

  5. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for all of the features you want to create.

  6. Now click on the Catalog tab again and browse to the category of the first product you want to add a feature to. Click on the product to edit it.

  7. Now click on Features.

  8. Select the feature and then the value from the drop-down list and click on Save.

  9. Go and look at the cool Data sheet tab that has appeared with that product on the shop front.

  10. Assign as many products and values as you need.

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