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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 – getting some feedback for your products


This is really easy.

  1. First of all, we need to enable product comments. Of course, if you think product comments are not suitable for your store, then you don't have to do this. However, the benefits are great so think carefully before skipping this guide. Log in to your admin control panel.

  2. Click on the Modules tab, and install the Product Comments tab. Now click on Configure, next to the module you have just installed.

    You will see the following screenshot when you click on Configure:

  3. Select whether you want to validate comments before publishing them. This option is useful if you are nervous about what people might say.

  4. The next two options for Criterion are optional. For each product, you can create a grading criterion. Let me explain. Your customer will be able to choose upto five stars. You can suggest and specify a criterion for these stars (for example, Please choose 1 star for poor or 5 stars for great). You can then assign specific...