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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 – how to process an order


Let's process our first order:

  1. Click on the Orders tab and then click on the order that you want to process.

  2. Click on the drop-down box and change the status of the order, as shown in the following screenshot. For example, if you are packing the order and about to go to the post office, select the Shipped status.

  3. Scroll to the bottom of the order details page and click on the send message link, as highlighted in the following screenshot:

  4. Select an appropriate default message to keep the customer up-to-date or to write a new message.

  5. Wrap the customer's order, or do whatever you need to fulfill the order. Notice that there are two addresses, invoice and delivery. Often these are the same, but not always. If they are different, be sure to send to the delivery address.

What just happened?

Now when you receive your first customer order, it can be a moment of joy and not one of panic.

Let's look in more detail at the Customers and Orders tabs to see some of...