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At the install process, the PrestaShop installer asked you to change the name of your administration folder, from /admin to something unique to your shop, for security reasons (for instance, /admin789). Use that folder name to access your shop, for instance http://myshop.com/admin789). You will see the login page for your store's control panel.
Enter the e-mail address and password that your registered with when you installed PrestaShop. Click "Log In", and you will be taken to the back-office welcome page, or your store's control panel.
From this step onward, you can begin to configure your store and offer products to your customers.
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Now take your first look at your Back Office, or the "Control Panel." Tabs situated at the top of the window help you navigate within the Back Office.
Managing Your Catalog
The "Catalog" section is accessible by clicking on the tab with the same name. This is where you manage all of your products throughout your PrestaShop e-commerce solution.
The first page under the “Catalog” tab looks like this
In the “Categories” section via the “Add a new subcategory” function you can create different product classifications. This arranges your articles, and helps your customers easily find what they are looking for. All of the categories are subcategories of the welcome page.
Create a Category
To create a category, fill out this 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. If you are creating a subcategory belonging to a category other than the welcome 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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- “Meta title” is the title that will appear on the search engines when a request is made by a customer
- “Meta description” is 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” are 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.
- The “Friendly URL” allows you to rewrite the addresses of your categories as you wish.
For example, instead of having an address such as
http://www.mystore.prestashop.com/category.php?id_category=3
you can have:http://www.mystore.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.
Once you have finished configuring your categories you can save them while staying on the same page by clicking on the button “Save” or saving and coming back to the previous category by clicking on “ Save “Save and Back to Parent Category ” ".
Note: Each of the fields has a flag located to its right, indicating that it can be configured in several languages. For more information on this feature, please see the language management feature.
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We begin with the first tab in the form, which allows you to fill out the general information about your products.
Fill out the general product information
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 allows you to choose the language into which you wish to edit or create the name.
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The field “Manufacturer” allows you to enter the name of the manufacturer of the product. This is an optional field.
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You can add information to better manage your item listing in the fields “Reference”, “E N13”, “supplier reference” or “Supplier reference”, “EAN13 or JAN”, "UPC" or “Location”.
You can also indicate the size of the final package.
Finally, add the weight in order to calculate the shipping cost of your customer’s orders
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You can in this case create a pack and add other products from your catalog to this pack. To do this, check “ Pack ” Several options “Pack”. A simple form will appear including a drop-down menu to choose which , with a button. Start typing in the text field to filter through your existing products, and choose the one product to add to the pack. Select it, choose the quantity, and click on the green button to validate your choice.
You can add as many products as you would like to the pack.
You can remove a product from the pack simply by clicking the trashcan icon next to it.
Tip: Packs allow the site administrator to simplify preparing orders. They also allow customers to take advantage of special prices and offers.
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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 making available to your customers by clicking “ Upload “Upload a File ” 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.
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Set the price that will appear in your store by following the instructions below.
- The field “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.
- In the field “ Pre-tax retail price,” enter the price of your product before taxes.
- In the field "Tax rule", enter the tax applicable to the product. Choose between the different rates.
To set the tax rates, check out the Taxes section on page 86. - The field “Retail Price with tax” will calculate the price of the product with taxes included.
- The “Eco-Tax” is how much of your price is allocated to recycling your product.
It must be noted with household appliances or other technologies. The field “Reduction amount” allows you to apply a discount by percentage or by a fixed value.
If this is a limited-time special, make sure to enter the dates during which it is valid, in the “year-month-day” format - To show that your product is on sale check the box labeled “Display “on sale” icon on product page and test 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
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Tab 2, Images, is for including photos on your product page.
- To add one or more images to your product click the “Browse” button, then select a photo from your computer to upload.
- Write a file name in the “Caption” field once you have uploaded the image.
This is the name that search engines will use to reference your product. You must thus give it a name that corresponds to the product description. This way, your product will appear with ease in search engine results. - Check the box that says “Cover” if you want this uploaded image to be used as the default image, and appear automatically on the product page of your shop.
Finally, to compress your images and turn them into thumbnails, you can choose between “Automatic” or “Manual” in the drop-down menu next to “Thumbnail resize method.” We recommend that you leave it as automatic.
Once you have uploaded several images, you can choose to modify the image order by clicking on the arrows in the “position” column and define a different cover image by clicking on the icons under the column “ cover image” (see insert 1 in the screenshot)