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• Name. Give your category a name, then indicate if it is "displayed" (i.e., whether or not it will be available to your customers). For example, you may want to postpone displaying a new category to your customers because you have not quite completed it.
• Parent Category. If you wish to create a subcategory belonging to a category other than the home page, choose the category under which it will appear.
• Root Category. You might want to use this new category as the new root category, instead of "Home". If so, check the radio button that applies.
• Description. You should fill this field, because not only will it be useful to you or your employees, but some themes might also make use of it, displaying it to your customers.
• Image. Click on "Browse" to upload an image from your computer which will represent this your category.

Then, the form presents you with a few Search Engine Optimization (SEO) fields. This information will help you optimize the visibility of your catalog on search engines.

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When you create a new product, the product page feature features a single button at the top: "Back to list". It simply takes you back to the list of product, without saving any change your you have made in any of the tab from this page.

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• Name. The first thing to complete is the product name, which 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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  You must give the product a name in at least the default language before you can save it. You won't be able to save until it has a name – and many other tab tabs require the product to be saved in order to be accessible.

• Reference. This is your own internal reference. It might be a number, or its reference from the storage location or its supplier, or anything that makes it unique. Optional.
• EAN13 or JAN. These are barcode numbers, which are used worldwide in order to identify products. You can use either a an EAN13 or a JAN number.
  • A An EAN13 is the product's 13-digit international article number. Read more on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Article_Number_%28EAN%29
  • A JAN is specific to Japan, but is compatible with the international EAN. Read more on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Article_Number
• UPC. A 12-digit barcode, more widely used in North America, UK, Australia and New-Zealand

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• Status. If you do not want this product to be immediately available or visible to your customers, check the radio button that says "Disabled".
• Visibility. You can further choose to have the product available through different channels:
  • Everywhere. Customers can get to the product by browsing the catalog, search for the product's name, or directly using its URL.
  • Catalog. Customers can get to the product by browsing the catalog or directly using its URL.
  • Search. Customers can get to the product by searching for its name or directly using its URL.
  • Nowhere. Customers can only get to the product using its URL. They won't find it by browsing through the catalog nor or by search searching for it's its name. This is great for creating private products, that only a few trusted visitors can access, even temporarily (you can change this setting at any time).
• Options. A couple of specific options.
  • available for order. If you uncheck this box, customers will not be able to add this product to their cart. This makes it more like a single-product Catalog mode (in comparison with the "Catalog mode" preference).
  • show price. If the "available for order" option above is unchecked, you can either choose to display the product's price nevertheless (even though visitors won't be able to buy it), or choose to not display it.
  • online only (not sold in store). If your business does have brick-and-mortar stores, this option will prove invaluable when a product is only sold online, not in store – this prevents customers from checking a product price online, then come to your store hoping to by buy it directly, and thus avoid shipping cost.
• Condition. Not all shop sell new product. This option enables you to indicate the condition of the product:
  • New. The product is brand new, sealed in its original packaging.
  • Used. The product has been sold at least once before, and probably used by someone else (second hand). It should come in its original packaging, which might be closed with tape.
  • Refurbished. The product has been returned for various reasons ("scratches, dents or other forms of cosmetic damage which do not affect the performance of the unit"). Read more on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refurbishment_%28electronics%29

Now that these details are set in stone, you can start adding a description for your product.
Describing your product well is essential, both for the customer (the more information, the better) and search engines (it will help your shop appear in more search requests).

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Once you have filled out all this information, save your work, after which you will be sent to your list of products. If you save by clicking on "Save and Stay", you will be able to continue working on your product's presentation.

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• 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.
  If you need to create new tax rates, click the "Create" button. Tax creation is done in the "Localization" tab, "Taxes" page; it is fully explained in the "Localization" chapter of this guide.
• Eco-tax (tax incl.). The value of the ecotax for this product. This value is already included in your retail price. You are supposed to declare that tax to your country's tax agency.
  Note that this fields field is not displayed by default. If you have to include an ecotax, you must first enable it: go to the "Localization" tab, "Taxes" page, "Tax options" section (bottom of the page), and choose "Yes" for the "Use ecotax" option.
• 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. 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 text field. The description on the same line will update accordingly.
• Display "on sale" icon on product page and text on product listing. Check that box to show that your product is on sale, both on the product page and in the text on the product listing. An "On sale" icon will appear under the product. You can modify this logo by changing the following file: themes/prestashop/img/onsale_fr.gif
• Final retail price. This price, including the discount taken, will update as you type.

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Once you have chosen your values click on "Save and stay": the summary of your discount model appears below. If you wish to delete a value, click on the trashcan icon in the table.

Managing Price Priority

Even when setting A customer might fit into multiple prices or discount rules, even when you have set detailed prices and quantity discounts, with custom groups and shops (when if in a multishop context), one customer might fit into multiple prices or discount rules. PrestaShop therefore uses a set of priorities in order to apply one a single price rule to such customers.

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• Meta title. This is the most important field, as the title that will appear on all search engines. Be very factual: you must convince the search engine user to click your link, not one from another site. Make sure the title is unique to this product within your site.
  • Good example: "Levi's 501® Original Jeans - Tidal Blue - Original Fit"
  • Bad example: "Item #02769869B bestseller"
• Meta description. A presentation of the product in just a couple lines (less then than 155 characters), intended to capture a customer's interest. This will appear in results for some search engines, depending on the search request: some search engine might choose to display the searched keywords directly in the context of the page content. Make sure the description is unique to this product within your site.
• Meta keywords. You can enter several of them, separated by commas, as well as expressions, which must be indicated in quotation marks. For instance: trousers, denims, "blue jeans", jeans.
• Friendly URL. This is another extremely important field. It enables you to rewrite the web addresses of your products 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.
  The "Generate" button makes it easy to produce a proper friendly URL based on the product name. Once generated, you can edit the URL produced if necessary.

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1. Click the "Upload an image" button and then select a photo from your computer to upload. The upload starts automatically.
   The maximal size for an image file is 128 kb (13131,1072 072 bytes). This size can be changed in the "Images" preference page, "Product images" section.
2. Uploaded images appear in a table below the button. If you want this uploaded image to be used as the default/cover image and appear automatically on the product page of your shop, click on the red button.

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1. Click on the "New Combination" button, in the top right of the page. A form will appear:
2. Attribute-value pair.
   1. From the drop-down menu choose a group of attributes, such as "Color" for example
   2. Choose the attribute value that you would like to include, for example "Blue".
   3. Click on the "Add" button and it will appear in the selector.
      You can add as many attribute-value pairs as necessary to one combination.
      You can only add one pair per type of attribute to one combination: it is impossible to have both "Color: Blue" and "Color: Red" in your pairs; if this is necessary, you will have to create new attributes, for instance "Primary color" and "Secondary color".
      You can delete an attribute-value pair by selecting it and clicking on the "Delete" button.
3. Reference, EAN13 & UPC.
   • If necessary, indicate the combination's reference, EAN13 and/or UPC numbers into each field, as if you were creating a brand new product in PrestaShop. These numbers may be used by your warehouse or your carrier, so make sure to fill these fields, they are often essential to your business.
4. Impact on original product. If the combination is supposed to have an impact on the product's price/weight/unit price, choose the appropriate dropdown menu, select "Increase" or "Reduction" depending on the context, and fill the field that appears with the value of that impact.
   • Wholesale price. This field is useful is the default price of the product changes simply by
5. Minimum quantity. You might prefer this combination to only be sold in bulk. Use this field set the number of items to be sold in bulk.
6. Available date. If this is a temporary or promotional product combination, you can indicate the date at which this product should not be available for sale anymore.
7. Images. The images that are linked to the whole product (as uploaded using the form in the "Images" tab on the left) are displayed. Check the box for the images that best represent this combinationscombination.
8. Default. Check this box if you want the current combination to actually be the main product.

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If you choose to use a custom value, do not forget to set it for every languages language that your shop supports. Use the flag icon to change language.

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• File Fields. Puts one file upload button on the order page. Each button accept accepts only one file, so put as many field as you allow your customers to upload.
• Text Fields. Puts one text field on the order page. You can add as many text fields as necessary.
  Example: If you allow a 5-line text, each line limited to 14 characters, you can add 5 fields, and indicate the number of allowed characters in the field's label.

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Removing fields. If in the end you added to too many fields, simply change the number of needed fields for each of the two types and click "Save and stay". The page will reload with the right number of fields, with the first ones preserved.

One Once all the label fields have been filled, do not forget to save your changes.

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The quantities page supports the stock management features, if activated. This means that if the current product's combination combinations are distributed among several storage locationlocations, PrestaShop is able to handle the exact location of each combination, even with a given warehouse.
To use advanced stock management for the current product, you must first enable the feature for the whole shop: go to the "Products" preference page (under the "Preferences" tab), and in the "Products stock" section, select "Yes" for the "Enable advanced stock management" option.

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By default, you have to manage the current product's quantities by hand, for each variation, from this page. With the stock management feature activated, you can rely on PrestaShop's stock management feature to handle this.
Once the checkbox has been clicked, an option becomes available: "vailable Available quantities for current product and its combinations are based on stock in the warehouses". Click it, and you cannot edit the current product's quantities from the "Quantities" page: it has new become dependent of your stock management.

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A new tab will appear on the left, titled "Pack", to which you will be redirected as soon as you change the product type. This tab only features two text fields and a button:

• the The first field is used to search for products that are already registered in your shop;
• the The second field is used to indicate the quantity of chosen product should be added to the pack;
• the The button adds the product to the pack.

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The tabs on the left change:

• the The "Virtual Product" tab appears, to which you will be redirected as soon as you change the product type;
• the The "Shipping product" product tab disappears.

The new tab only features two radio buttons 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).

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• Upload a file. Click the "Browse" button to find the file on your hard drive. As soon as you have selected a file, the upload begins.
• 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.
• 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, 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 functioningnonfunctioning. If there is no limit, set the text field to 0.

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