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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 configure shipping by weight


The first thing to do is tell PrestaShop what each of your products weighs so that it can do the sums. So let's get on with it:

  1. 1. During the setup of your products, we discussed the weight property of the product configuration page. If you didn't define the weight then but have now decided to calculate shipping by weight, then click back into your products and configure the weight before continuing. Refer back to Chapter 3 for details.

  2. 2. Click on the Shipping tab. Put zero in the handling charge box unless of course you want a handling charge on top of the delivery charge. Clear the box labeled Free shipping starts at for the price because we are not interested in order price in this tutorial. Finally, put a weight you want free shipping to start at, if any, in the box labeled Free shipping starts at for the weight.

  3. 3. Now we will define some weight ranges. Click on the Weight ranges sub-tab and then on Add new.

  4. 4. Type in the starting...