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  • 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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You wish to sell a pack of products composed of several items. Example: a computer start-up pack , composed of the computer itself, a monitor, and a printer.

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Set the price that will appear in your store by following the instructions below.

  • Pre-tax wholesale price. Lets Enables you to 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 in 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. You can modify this logo by changing the following file: themes/prestashop/img/onsale_fr.gif

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  • Initial stock. Represents the number of products available. If at this point you have already organized your products attributes and variations (i.e. colors, sizes, etc.), this field will represent all of the quantities of these variations.
  • Minimum quantity. The minimal number of item that the customer can buy. If set to 1, there is no minimal quantity.
  • Additional shipping cost. Enables you to add per-product shipping cost to the final order.
  • Displayed text when in-stock. Enables you to display a message to your visitors when your product is in stock. It reassures them that your shop can immediately send them the product by showing for example the words "Item available."
  • On the contrary, if the item is not in stock, you can choose to allow orders or not using the the "When out of stock" selector.
    If you do allow orders, then you can display a message to your visitors using the "Displayed text when allowed to be back-ordered" field.

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  • Meta title. The title that will appear on the search engines when a request is made by a customer
  • Meta description. A presentation of the product 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.myprestashop.com/category.php?id_category=3
    you can have:
    http://www.myprestashop.com/123-name-of-the-category .
    In this case, all you would need to do is indicate in the "Friendly URL" field the words that you wish to see appear instead of "name-of-the-category" separated by dashes.

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To add a group of attributes, or in other words to add a group of variation possibilities (colors, capacity, material, etc.), click on "Add attributes group", fill out the form that appears, and save.

To add a choice to the group of attributes that you just created, you must create a specific variation.
Select the attribute group then click on "Add attribute" and fill out the form that appears.

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Choose the HTML color or upload a photo from your computer (if you’re you are displaying textures instead of colors, for exampleinstance). The HTML colors color will then be replaced by the photo of the texture.

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To create a feature as well as its values, click on the tab under Catalog that is labeled "Features". Click on "Add a Feature" for example, to add the types of headphones provided with a music player.

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To add a value to the feature, either go back to the previous page, or go the the "Features" sub-ab tab of the "Catalog" tab.

In either case, click on "Add a new feature value".

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  • Use "File Fields" to indicate the number of files that you are going to receive and want to display.
  • If your customer is sending you text, then modify the value in "Text Fields."

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  • Fill out the name of your attachment.
  • Give it a quick description then click on "Browse" to select a file on your computer to upload.
  • Click on "Add a new attachment file".
  • The attachment is uploaded, and the page reloads, with the attachment appearing in the "Available attachments" selector.
  • Select your attachment and click "<< Add" to add to the current product.
  • Click "Update attachments". The message "Update successful" should appear at the top: you're done!

Now the tab "Download" tab will appear in your online store , and you can look at the file that you just saved. See the screenshot below.

You can view all of your store's attachments (and add more) by clicking the "Attachments" sub-tab, under the "Catalog" tab.

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