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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 – setting up PrestaShop to handle sales tax


Here we go:

  1. Hover on Localization and click on the Taxes subtab.

  2. Click on Add new; enter the name and rate of tax.

  3. Click on the boxes where the tax is applicable and Save your new tax.

  4. Take a look at the screenshot below:

  5. Click on the bin icon to delete any taxes that are not appropriate to you.

  6. Finally, make sure the Enable tax box is ticked. Click on Save.

What just happened?

It is really important to get this right. It is hard to run a business from jail. But that doesn't necessarily mean you have to get your wallet out. Most tax authorities offer free advice over the phone and face-to-face. Look for them and give them a call.

Now we can go on to explore checkout.