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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 shipping by sale value


This is how to do it:

  1. Click on the Shipping tab. Put zero in the handling charge box unless of course you want a handling charge on top of the delivery charge. Clear the box labeled Free shipping starts at for the weight (kg) because we are not interested in weight at this stage. Finally, put a value if you want free shipping to start at, if any, in the box labeled Free shipping starts at for the price ().

  2. Now we will define some price ranges. Click on the Price Ranges subtab and then on Add new.

  3. Type in the starting value of your first order value price range. Almost certainly the From price will be 0. Enter the upper limit of the first range. So if you wanted to charge a specific amount of shipping for orders from 0.01 to 49.99, enter the value 50.00. Click on Save.

  4. Now click on Add new again. Enter the starting value of your range in the From box. This should be the same as the To value from the previous range. This is because the actual...