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PrestaShop 1.3 Beginner's Guide

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PrestaShop 1.3 Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

PrestaShop is a hidden gem. There are many much more widely known online shopping cart solutions that have nothing like the features, potential, and ease of use that this open source, completely free-to-use, system has. But until now there has been no information available on how to make the most of it. This book takes a step-by-step approach to help you set up your own e-commerce store and maximize its potential. Even if you are totally new to e-commerce and PrestaShop, you can have your own functioning e-commerce store quickly and with tiny expenditure. Imagine the feeling when you get that glorious e-mail saying that you have your first paying customer.This practical guide follows the order of developing an active business. Packed with easy-to-follow steps with loads of screenshots and clear explanations, it follows a step-by-step approach to set up a PrestaShop e-commerce store from the very beginning through finding a web host, setting up your PrestaShop store, accepting money from customers, and planning for the future of your business.The first few chapters are a lightening, but thorough, illustration of how to get your shop online, stocked up, and looking smart and unique, including some really cool and really simple product features to show off your wares in style – very quickly. The later chapters are quite diverse and cover some exciting stuff such as newsletters, loyalty schemes, alternative revenue streams, statistics and analytics. You will also learn about security, disaster recovery, payment handling, currencies, taxes, shipping, and more. Towards the end, the chapters cover final preparations before going live, handling orders in PrestaShop, and how to promote your store and get more customers. Once the money starts to flow, the book looks at the future of e-commerce and your PrestaShop business. Then it discusses how to get to the top of your niche and stay there. And then the big secret: to use the knowledge you have gained to turn a single PrestaShop into a thriving e-commerce empire.The Appendix covers a number of worthwhile topics such as a handy PrestaShop control panel reference and various web resources for PrestaShop.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
PrestaShop 1.3 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface

Chapter 2. Shop Fitting and Layout

Your shop front as it stands is quite bland. But in around 20 pages time in will be bristling with modules, search boxes, navigation boxes, a smart header, and much more.

In this chapter, we will:

  • Set the shape of your store including the logo

  • Make your home page

  • Make some more key pages, such as contact us and conditions of use

  • Configure and enter manufacturer and supplier information

  • Change and customize themes

  • Add a few more touches to your shop's configuration

So let's get on with it...

Arranging key modules

What is a module? Well just about everything is a module or perhaps more accurately uses a module to be displayed. The best way of demonstrating is to get on and do something.

First, here is a list of key PrestaShop modules and their uses. I will then go through step by step, enabling, configuring (where necessary), and positioning them. I will also suggest positions and give reasons for my suggestions.

It is important to remember that everyone's shop will...