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The first page under the "Catalog" tab looks like thislists both the homepage's sub-categories, and the products that are attached to the homepage.
In the "Categories" section, you can create different product classifications using the "Add a new subcategory" function. This arranges your articles, and helps your customers easily find what they are looking for. All of the categories are subcategories of the home page.
Create a Category
To create a category, click on the "Add a new subcatergory" button an fill out this the form:.
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.
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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 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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Fill out the general product information
The first section contains the essential information about the product.
The first thing to complete is the product information. This is the name that will appear in the search results. Next to the field you will find a flag, which enables you to choose the language into which you wish to edit or create the name.
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Finally, add the weight in order to calculate the shipping cost of your customer’s customer's orders
Create a Pack of Products
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Check the box "Is this a downloadable product?" if you sell downloadable goods, such as mp3s or PDF documents. A form appears:
- Choose the file that you’re you're making available to your customers by clicking "Upload a File" then find and select it on your computer.
- Filename. Choose a name for your file.
- Number of downloads. Indicate how many times this file can be downloaded after a customer purchases it.
- Expiration Date. Indicate the date after which the file will no longer be available for sale. When filling out this file, remember to write in the date as YYYY-MM-DD.
- Number of Days. Once your customer has bought the file from your store, you can limit the number of days he has until he can download his file. You must fill out this field in order to save your product.
Setting the Price of a Product
The pricing section can be quite intimidating, with fields influencing each other and taxes to take into account.
Set the price that will appear in your store by following the instructions below. :
- Pre-tax wholesale price. 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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This serves mainly to clarify which category to use in case your customer arrives at your site from a search engine. The name of the category will appear in the product’s product's URL. For instance, "telephone" can appear under the category of "brand" (Apple, Samsung, Nokia, etc.) and also under the category of "characteristic" (smart-phone, flip-phone, etc.).
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These fields allow you to directly optimize your catalog’s catalog's visibility 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 the product in just a few lines, intended to capture a customer’s 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.
Adding a Product Description
Textually describing your product is essential, both for the customer (the more information, the better) and seach engines (it will help your shop appear for more search requests).
There are two boxes fields dedicated to filling out a description.
The first box field enables you to write a short description that will appear in search engines. This field is limited to 400 characters. The text editors options are useless, as HTML only uses plain text.
In the second boxfield, you can write a full description of your product, which will appear directly on your online store. The text editor offers a wide range of options for creating visually attractive descriptions (font, size, text color, etc.).
While the second form has no limits, there is such thing as too much content: put the essential information in an compelling way, and your product should be good to go.
In the "tags" field, add some terms and keywords that will help your customers easily find what they are looking for.
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Once you have filled out all this information save your work by clicking on "Save," after which you will be sent to your catalog’s catalog's home page or by clicking on "Save and Stay" to continue working on your product’s product's presentation When you have saved your work with "save and stay", some new options will be displayed such as the follwing following tabs: "3 Combinations", "4 Features", "5 Customization", "6 Discounts", "7 Attachments."
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Adding different variations to your product takes a few steps. Before proceeding, you must already have created the necessary groups of attributes and the attributes themselves. Once this is done, click on 4th tab, named "Combinations", and the following a creation form will appear:.
- From the drop-down menu choose a group of attributes, such as "Colors" for example
- Choose the attribute that you would like to include, for example "blue"
- Click on "Add" and it will appear in the selector
- If the attribute has an impact on the product’s product's price, go to the "Impact on price" drop-down menu and choose "Increase" or "Reduction". Text fields appear with the menu's row, for you to indicate said change
- If the attribute impacts the weight, the process is identical.
- Next, fill out the different fields such as reference, quantity, etc.
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If you would like to make this the default combination (attribute + product), check the box labeled "make the default combination for this product".
Finally, click on "Add this Combination" to save it. It will appear in the attributes list, like below:.
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In this example, an attribute has been associated: "color". If you wish to add several attributes, you just need to add one attribute and then a second attribute. When you click "Add", the two attributes will be added. |
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...will take you to the complete form:.
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A warning window might appear, saying "Are you sure you want to delete entered product information?" This means your product already had XXX. If you agree to this, this will delete the already existing XXX. Be careful! |
On the right side of this page is are your groups of attributes. Select the varieties by clicking on their name. If you'd like to select several of them at the same time, press the Ctrl key while clicking. Then click on "Add".
For example, in the screenshot aboveour example, you can select the attributes "Blue", "Green" and "32 Go".
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The fifth tab, named "Features" is where you specify your products’ products' features (i.e. weight, material, country of origin, etc.). When you create features and values (i.e. wool knit and micro-fiber materials), you assign them to the products when it is appropriate. This means that you do not have to fill out the features fields for each of your products but instead simply fill in the necessary values and apply them later. However, be aware that contrary to the combinations, these values do not change, and are valid for the general product.
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Example: You are a jewelry retailer and your customers have the possibility to engrave their jewelry with a text or an image. Your customers can request the text or the image when they place their order.
Let’s Let's look at how to configure this function. In the tab 6, "Customization", you can indicate what type of field (file or text) can be personalized.
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Once this is done, click on "Save labels." You should know now see the following it appear in the lower part of the screen:.
The advantage of this function is that it offers your customers a personal service, which they will without a doubt appreciate!
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