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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 – installing Google Analytics


Just perform the following steps and ignore Google's additional warnings and instructions because PrestaShop is different. Go!

  1. In your Analytics account, click on Add Website Profile and type in your domain name.

  2. Note the Web Property ID in the Tracking Status Information box.

  3. In PrestaShop, click on the Modules tab. Scroll to the Analytics and Stats category and install the ganalytics module.

  4. Scroll back down to the Google Analytics module and click on Configure.

  5. Enter your Analytics Web Property ID in the box and click on Save.

  6. Breathe.

  7. If this is not your book and your partner has a blue face and their head on their keyboard, please call an ambulance. Please note the publisher and the author accepts no responsibility for death or serious injury while reading this book.

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Tracking has now been installed. Data will be gathered and you would have meaningful statistics in around 24 hours. We will cover much more on statistics in Chapter...