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First of all give your category a name, then determine if it is "displayed", or in other words if it will be accessible to your customers or not. For example, you may want to postpone showing a new category to your customers because you have not quite completed it.
If you are creating wish to create a subcategory belonging to a category other than the home page, choose the category under which it will appear in the drop-down menu "Parent Category." Click on "Browse" to upload an image from your computer, in order to illustrate your category.
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This information will help you optimize the visibility of your catalog on search engines.
- Meta title. " The title that will appear on the search engines when a request is made by a customer
- Meta description. A presentation of your site in just a few lines, intended to capture a customer’s interest It will appear in search results
- *Meta Keywords". Keywords that you must define in order to have your site referenced by search engines. You can enter several of them, separated by commas, as well as expressions, which must be indicated in quotation marks.
- *Friendly URL". Enables you to rewrite the addresses of your categories as you wish.
For example, instead of having an address such as
http://www.myshop.prestashop.com/category.php?id_category=3
you can have:http://www.myshop.prestashop.com/123-name-of-the-category
In this case, all you would need to do is indicate in the field marked "Friendly URL" the words that you wish to see appear instead of "name-of-the-category" separated by dashes. - Groups access. Restricts select categories and products from certain shoppers. To see these categories, your shoppers must belong to a user group. Check out the group functions in the Customers tab for more information.
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If you do not want this product to be immediately available or visible to your customers, check the box that says "Disable"."
The "Manufacturer" field enables you to enter the name of the manufacturer of the product. This is an optional field.
Click "Create" next to the Manufacturer field to add a new manufacturer, or select from the drop-down menu which one to associate with this product.
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You wish to sell a pack of products composed of several items. Example: a computer start-up pack, composed of a CPUthe computer itself, a monitor, and a printer.
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- Pre-tax wholesale price. Lets you instantly know your wholesale, factory price, and thus compare it to your selling price in order to easily calculate your profit.
- Pre-tax retail price. The price of your product before taxes.
- Tax rule. The tax applicable to the product. Choose between the different rates.
To set the tax rates, check out the Taxes section on page 86in this guide. - Retail Price with tax. Displays the price of the product with taxes included. You can edit the value, and it will automatically update the "Pre-tax retail price" field according to the tax rule that you chose.
- Unit price with tax. Enables you to conform to local legislations that require products to be displayed with their unit price.
For instance, if you are selling a pack of 6 cans of soda, then you should fill this field with the price per can, and indicate "can" in the second field. The description on the same line will update accordingly. The "per" field can take any con, the most frequent ones being "liter", "fl oz", "pound", "kilogram", "gallon", etc. Display "on sale" icon. Check that box to show that your product is on sale, on product page and text on product listing. A logo will appear under the product's file. You can modify this logo by changing the following file:
themes/prestashop/img/onsale_fr.gif
The final retail price, including the discount taken, will update as you type.
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At this point, you have finished your product file, and here it is in your boutique! If you chose to start the specific price at 1 unit, the discount is immediately visible on the product's page.
Either way, any discount appears within the bottom of the product's page.
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