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To add new languages to your shop, go to the International section. You can either add just a language in "Translations" or add a localization pack in "Localization". You will find more information in the LIEN VERS PAGE INTERNATIONAL documenation international section of the documentation. |
Global Buttons
- Sales. Redirects you to the "Product detail" page of the statistics dashboard ("Stats" menu), which gives you a graphic of both the visits to this product's page, and also its sales.
- Product list.
- Help.
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- Delete (trash icon). Removes all the data for the current product and deletes it, including its images, combinations, features, etc.
- Preview. Displays the front office page of your product. This is very handy, as it works even if the product is disabled.
- Offline. This is where you enable or disable your product. By default it is disabled, so your customers won't be able to see it in your shop.
Duplicate. Save the current product, then creates an exact copy of the current product and takes you to the new product page. This is very useful when you'd rather use the current product's data as a template for another new product, and not have to create every data of the new product by hand. For instance, two products might be very different, but could share the same associations, carriers or supplier settings.
Note title Don't over-duplicate! If you need to create different versions of the same product, because of its variety of colors, capacity, size, etc., then you should create product combination for the current product rather than duplicating it X times. See the the "Combinations" tab on the leftoption in the "Basic settings" tab, which is explained in the "Adding Product CombinationsCreating a product with combinations" section of this chapter.
- Go to Catalog. This saves any change you have made to any of the data for the current product, and takes you back to the product list.
- Add new product.
- Save. This saves any change you have made to any of the data for the current product, and keeps you on the current tab. This is particularly useful when you want to switch tabs without losing your changes to the current tab, or in order to see your changes get applied immediately.
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Feature and feature value creation are explained in details in the dedicated section of the guide.
Assigning a value to a feature
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You cannot create combinations if you do not already have product attributes properly set in PrestaShop. Attributes creation is done in the "Attributes & Features" page from the "Catalog" menu, and is expexplained in details in the thisdedicated chapter of the same name of this guidedocumentation. |
Quantity
Indicate how many products are available for sale.
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Don't forget to go to the "Categories" page later to fill in the details for this new category. To read more about categories, go to the related section of the documentation.
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There are many more product-related options in the "Products" page from the "Preferences" menu:
You should really check that these global settings are set as you wish. |
Creating a product with combinations
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Creating a virtual product
Your shop may feature (partly or exclusively) virtual products – that is, products that are not shipped, but rather downloaded: entertainment tickets, e-books/PDF files, real-life services...
PrestaShop makes it easy for you to create a virtual product
The process to do this is similar to the one for creating a simple product:
- Go to the "Products" page, under the "Catalog" menu.
- Click the "Add New" button.
- From the "Information" tab on the left, change the product type to "Virtual Product".
The tabs on the left change:
- The "Virtual Product" tab appears, to which you will be redirected as soon as you change the product type.
- The "Shipping product" tab disappears.
The new tab only features one option at first: it asks if the virtual product you are creating has a file attached (i.e., if your customer will pay to download something).
- If not, leave it at that: you are selling a service, and nothing needs to be downloaded.
- If yes, click the "Yes" option.
When you click "Yes", PrestaShop opens a new form within the tab, from which you can upload the file you intend to sell:
- Filename. The name of the file. This field is automatically filled after the file has been uploaded. It is not recommended to change it to another value.
File. Click the "Browse" button to find the file on your hard drive. As soon as you have selected a file, the upload begins.
Info The maximum file-upload size setting depends on your server's settings, and cannot be increased from PrestaShop.
If you have access to your server's
php.inifile, these are the values you should change:upload_max_filesize = 20Mpost_max_size = 20M
If you do not have access to the
php.inifile, contact your web host about this.Note You should compress your file in zip format, in order to avoid the browser misinterpreting
.exeor.jpgfile formats. Browsers automatically download zip files for the customer, no question asked.If you are selling a high resolution image, uploading it using this form does not prevent you from uploading its thumbnail in the "Images" tab on the left.
- Number of allowed downloads. You can set the number of time the file can be downloaded once the customer has bought it. You might prefer to limit this to 1, or 5. If you want to keep it unlimited, set the text field to 0.
- Expiration date. Virtual files can be of promotional nature, or lose their selling value after a certain date. If so, you can set the expiry date after which the product will not be available on your shop anymore. Leave it blank if there is no expiry date.
- Number of days. You can set the number of days after which the download link becomes non-functioning. If there is no limit, set the text field to 0.
Once you are done with the "Virtual Product" tab, you can edit all the other available tabs as if you would for a regular product.
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