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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 – configuring permissions to profiles


Of course, the permissions and levels that I've suggested in this Time for action section are just my views. You will know best as to what is most appropriate for your business. Let's get on with it then.

  1. Hover over the Administration tab, click on Permissions, and select the Customer Service profile, or whatever profile you are configuring from the left-hand side menu.

  2. Take time to examine the tabs and the options associated with them.

  3. Try adding permissions for one of the tabs. For the freelance writer, I would just enable the View functionality for the Tools tab and the View, Add, and Edit functionalities for the CMS tab. The reason we need to assign View to Tools is because the CMS tab will not be visible otherwise.

  4. Go back to a user's subtab in Employees, edit the user, and assign the profile you have just amended to the user. Now log in as that user and see the changes taking effect.

  5. Now log in again as the administrator and make the...