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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

Advanced Parameters


Subtabs

Description

Configuration Information

Brief resume about your PrestaShop configuration.

Performance

Improve your e-commerce performance, by enabling some options here.

E-mail

Configure or reconfigure all of your e-mail options here. Have a look at Chapter 5, Tools, Newsletters, Extra Income, and Statistics, before fiddling with these.

CSV Import

The CSV import page enables you to easily fill your product catalog when you have a very large amount of product or data from an other e-commerce tool.

DB backup

Use this quick and simple database backup tool. Full backups are discussed in Chapter 6, Security and Disaster Recovery.

SQL Manager

Explore a database using the SQL language.

Logs

It is a list of errors in your e-commerce.

Webservice

You can enable your shop’s webservice, so that third-party tools can access your data.

Administration

You can do some changes here that impact the front-end and even your business:

Subtabs

Description

Preferences

General options and settings for PrestaShop functionality.

Quick Accesses

Add and remove areas of your admin control panel that can be accessed via the quick access feature. There’s more in Chapter 5, Tools, Newsletters, Extra Income, and Statistics.

Employees

This tab defines what users can do and who deals with each type of customer contact.

Profiles

Creating and assigning profiles for employees using your PrestaShop profile is both useful and makes good sense from a security perspective. Explore this idea more fully in Chapter 6, Security and Disaster Recovery.

Permissions

Assign permissions to your profiles and specify the amount of access, if any, that each profile has on each of the tabs. This is fully explained in Chapter 6, Security and Disaster Recovery.

Menus

Sort the way that you want the back-end menu.

Stats

The subject of statistics is as wide as it is important. Set up PrestaShop to gather statistics in Chapter 5, Tools, Newsletters, Extra Income, and Statistics, learn to interpret statistics in Chapter 9, Go… to the Future, and make a plan for using statistics in Chapter 9, Go… to the Future.

Subtabs

Description

Search Engines

A list of search engines and parameters that PrestaShop is already configured to gather referral statistics for.

Referrers

Options for indexing your site’s referrers and cleaning the cache of referrer data.