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This section allows to manage the availability of your products.

  • The field marked Quantity corresponds to "Initial stock" field 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. 
  • The "Minimum quantity" field “Displayed Text When in-Stock” allows you to write a message for your visitors to see is the minimal number of item that the customer can buy. If set to 1, there is no minimal quantity.
  • The "Additional shipping cost" allows you to add per-product shipping cost to the final order.
  • The “Displayed text when in-stock” field allows 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 vailable ” 

In case you are out of stock, you have two options: 

  • Accept orders and postpone their shipment. To choose this option select “Allow orders”
  • Deny orders. W ith this option no orders for this product will be acceptedavailable.”
  • 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.

You can also configure the general settings applied to all of your products. The default option is to deny orders, but this can be modified under the “Preferences” or “Products” tabs, discussed further in the Product Configuration section. 

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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 URL Example . For instance, "telephone" can appear under the category of ‘brand’ ( pple Samsung Nokia "brand" (Apple, Samsung, Nokia, etc.) and also under the category of ‘characteristic’ "characteristic" (Smartphonesmartphone, flip-phone, etc.).

Listing Your Product

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These fields allow you to directly optimize your catalog’s visibility on search engines  

  • “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 the product in just a few lines, intended to capture a customer’s interest. It will appear in search results
  • “Meta Keywords” 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  would need to do is indicate in the field marked “Friendly URL” field the words that you wish to see appear instead of “name-of-the-category” separated by dashes.

Adding a Product Description

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There are two boxes dedicated to filling out a description. The first box allows you to write a short description that will appear in search engines. This brief field is limited to 400 characters. In the second box, 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.).

In the “tags” field,

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add some terms and keywords that will help your customers easily find what they are looking for.

The “accessories” field gives you the option of choosing relevant products to associate with this product. To suggest a product to your customers, type in the first letters of the product in question, select it, and then click on the green button to the right of the field.

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 home page or by clicking on “Save and Stay” to continue working on your product’s presentation When you have saved your work with “save and stay”, some new options will be displayed such as the follwing tabs: “3 Combinations”, “4 Features”, “5 Customization”, “6 Discounts”, “7 Attachments.”

Configuring the Product Image

Tab The second tab, "2 , Images", is for including photos on your product page. Image Added

  • 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”  “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 “cover image” (see insert 1 in bottom of the screenshot)