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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 – Invoices


Make sure that you are logged in to your admin control panel and then read on.

  1. Hover over the Orders tab and then click on the Invoices subtab.

  2. In the Invoice options panel shown in the preceding screenshot, select Yes to enable invoices for your customers.

  3. In the Invoice number box, you can specify the number of the next invoice to be generated. This is a great cheat for hiding the fact that your shop is brand new. When your first ever customer gets the invoice number 5456753, they will have no idea how special they really are.

  4. Look at the button labeled Generate PDF file by date.

  5. Specify a date period, perhaps the beginning and the end of a particular month.

  6. Click on the Generate PDF file by date button and you can easily print all of your customer invoices for that month.

What just happened?

We saw how to enable and disable customer invoices as well as print invoices for our own records.

Merchandise returns

Here you can enable merchandise returns as well as specify...