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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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- 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 display 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.
- 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 "Unit price with tax" allows to conform to some 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.
To show that your product is on sale, check the box labeled “Display “on sale” icon on product page and test 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 The final retail price, including the discount taken, will appearupdate as you type.
Note: You can fill out the field “retail price with tax” and choose the rate of tax to apply and the field will automatically calculate the pre-tax retail price. The opposite operation is also available.
Product Availability
This section allows to manage the availability of your products.
- The field marked Quantity corresponds to 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.
- The field “Displayed Text When in-Stock” allows you to write a message for your visitors to see 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 vailable ”
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