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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 – adding a currency


Here is how to add a new currency to your PrestaShop:

  1. Hover on Localization and click on Currencies.

  2. Now click on the Add new button. The following is what you will see:

  3. And this is how to fill out the boxes:

    Property

    What to put in the box

    Currency name

    This is the actual name of your currency. Write the native currency as the user would expect it to find: British pounds, Euros, and so on.

    ISO code

    This is the internationally recognized code for currency. Dollars is USD, British pounds is GBP. To find out what is yours, visit any major news site and check out the currency rates for the day. The ISO code will be quoted there.

    Numeric ISO code

    This is the internationally recognized number for currency. Dollars is 840, Euros is 978.

    Symbol

    £, $, and so on.

    Conversion rate

    Leave this until the next tutorial.

    Formatting

    This is simple but important. When you present prices, do you want the symbol to appear before or after the price?

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