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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

Chapter 5. Tools, Newsletters, Extra Income, and Statistics

In this chapter we will cover as many PrestaShop features as possible. As I mentioned earlier, there is so much to PrestaShop. This is an attempt to bring the best of it to your attention.

First we will explore the Preferences and Advanced Parameters tabs and then go on to some more great stuff like newsletters and product notifications. Then we will look at Google AdSense. This is a way of making extra income through advertisers with just a couple of clicks.

Then we will take our first look at statistics. I would say our first look because we will just introduce the concept and set them up. In Chapter 9, Go… To the Future, we will see how to start using the statistics you gather. We will set up the fabulously rich PrestaShop statistics features and the free-to-use Google Analytics.

In this chapter, we are going to:

  • Look at the most useful things on the Preferences tab

  • Explore the best stuff on the Advanced Parameters tab

  • Set up...