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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

Customizing


This is a bit more niche than the other product features we have seen and there is a good chance you might not need this. But just knowing that you have the customizing option might open your mind to new ideas. And if you do need to offer your customer's custom options then this quick explanation and guide will be invaluable.

So what is customizing in a PrestaShop context? Click on the Customization tab of one of your products.

Notice you have the option to specify the number of File fields and/or Text fields. If you do, then these would appear on the product page. Try it if you're curious. So let's say I am selling a teddy bear T-shirt, and I would like the customer to specify a name to put on the T-shirt. All I need to do is to add a positive number in the appropriate box. PrestaShop would then pass on the details of the customization when the customer places the order. Of course, I could specify multiple text fields for a message. I could also specify a file field enabling the...