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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 – creating an account and placing an order


Here's how to do it. I will go through this tutorial as if you are doing the clicking.

  1. Browse through your store and add a couple of products to your cart. Click on the cart link and see what it looks like. Does it all look straightforward and intuitive to you?

  2. Click on the Check out button and create an account when you are prompted to do so.

  3. Click on the Next button and review the shipping summary page. Does it appear as expected, with the right shipping options? If it does, click on Next.

  4. Select one of the payment options: PayPal, Google Checkout, or any other option that you have set up. If you have chosen to offer the cheque, bank wire, or cash on delivery payment methods, then I suggest that you do not choose them here. It will be useful (as we will see later in the chapter) to see how PrestaShop integrates with your chosen payment provider; we will discuss how to handle orders as well.

  5. Complete the transaction through your preferred...