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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

Time for action - how to process an order


Let's process our first order:

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

  2. 2. Click the drop-down box to 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. 3. Scroll to the bottom of the order detail page and click on the send message link as highlighted in the following screenshot:

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

  5. 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...