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- Catalog mode. Enable the catalog mode turns your shop into a simply gallery of products, with no way to buy the items whatsoever.
- Allow ordering out-of-stock product. Displays the "Add to Cart" button even if the products is not currently available.
- Enable stock management. By default you should leave this feature enabled. This affects the entire inventory management of your store, such as the management according to status, etc.
- Display available quantities on product page. By enabling this feature, your visitors can see the quantities of each object available in stock. Displaying this information can be used to stimulate sales in the case where the quantity in stock is low. The quantities displayed are the selected attributes and combination.
- Enable JqZoom instead of Thickbox on product page. Once you activate this feature, a zoom will appears whenever a mouse is scrolled over a product's image on your store. You can configure the zoom size by modifying the image value in the "Image" sub-tab of the "Preferences" tab.
- Display unavailable product attributes on product page. Your product can be composed of many different combinations or attributes.
Go to the "Configure Attributes" section on page 28 to understand attributes and combinations. When one or several of them are not available, you have several possibilities:- First possibility. Leave this preference active. Example: The product "iPod Shuffle" is no longer available in "Blue" in our store. By activating the feature, the product’s variety will remain visible in the shop. A message indicates that the product is no longer available in the chosen option and invites customers to choose another variation.
- Second possibility. Disabling this preference. If the blue variety of the product “Ipod Shuffle” is no longer available, the product is not displayed the front office and the customer can not select it. This feature clearly displays the availability of your products
- Display "add to cart" button when product has attributes.
- Max items in the comparator.
- Minimum purchase total required in order to validate order. Indicates the minimum amount that must be in the shopping cart to submit an order. If the amount in this field is not reached, your customer can not complete their purchase. If you do not want to activate this feature, enter "0" in the field.
- Display last quantities when qty is lower than. You can display an alert when a stock of your products gets low. This option is particularly useful for promoting purchases. To configure this feature, enter the field value at which an alert message should appear on your store.
- Number of days during which the product is considered 'new'. When you add a product in your store, it is considered new and it is reported back through the "New products" block and the "New products" page. The field allows you to specify how many days the product will remain visible on the block and page. With this feature, you choose how to display and updated your store's news This page is usually accessed by your loyal customers.
- Re-direction after adding product to cart. When a product is added to the shopping cart and the AJAX version of the cart mode is disabled, the client can be directed to the shopping cart summary or stay in the current page.
- Products per page. Indicate how many products are displayed on the pages of your categories.
- Default order by. Indicate the order of default products in your store’s categories Example In our shop's "iPod" category, we can present the iPods in our desired order. 6 choices are available:
- Product name. Displays a list of your products based on the first letter of the product.
- Product Price. Displays your products according to their price.
- Product Added Date. Displays your products according to the date added to your shop.
- Position inside category. Displays your products as they are positioned in the categories in your catalog. The position of the products can be modified directly in the catalog of your store using the position arrows. This way you have your product in the most attractive fashion for your customers.
- Manufacturer. Displays your products in order of the first letter of the Manufacturer.
- Project Modified Date. When you edit your products the modification date is changed. They will appear in order of the modification date.
- Default order way. The above options can be sorted by ascending or descending order.
- Image generated by. This feature allows you to position the product image in its pre-established space. Choose ‘height’ in order to fill the frame height (the width is then recalculated to maintain the same height/width ratio as in the file of origin). You could also choose ‘width ’ ‘width’ so the image fills the width of the frame (the height is then recalculated to maintain the same proportion), or finally, choose "auto", where the width and height are calculated to maximize the space it can occupy in the frame.
- Maximum size of product pictures. The maximum size of pictures that customers can upload (in bytes).
- Product pictures width. The maximum width of pictures that customers can upload (in pixels).
- Product pictures height. The maximum height of pictures that customers can upload (in pixels).
At the end of the checkout process, a client can leave a message. He can choose whom to send it to by selecting from the drop-down menu.
Under the "Email" sub-tab of the "Preferences" tab, you can configure PrestaShop to send emails to your customers. However, we advise that you consult your web host before modifying this feature.
Your shop sends many messages throughout all the steps of registration or placing an order. Here, you can configure how these messages will be sent. By default, it is advisable to use the first option of sending information to "Use the PHP mail() function”.
In the event that this does not work, then use the second option. In this case additional fields appear.
Once you have configured emails using one of the two methods, enter your email address in the field labeled “Test your email configuration” then click “Send a email test at”.
Now check the inbox of the address provided to verify that you received the test mail. If you have not received it, please modify your configuration. The configuration information can be provided to you either by:
- Your system administrator
- Your host
- Your ISP
- Your e-mail provider.
Your web host can tell you whether or not your username is mandatory, as well as the password information, and the encryption to use.
For example, in the case of GMail (the email service offered by Google), enter the following information:
- SMTP server: smtp.gmail.com
- User: [email protected] (example)
- Password: RT22UE87 (example)
- Encryption: SSL
- Port: 465
Aliases
When customers make a request using your shop’s internal search engine, they may make mistakes in spelling. If PrestaShop does not display the right results, the "Alias" feature can address them. You'll be able to take words containing spelling errors, and point them to the real products sought by customers.
Firstly, to find spelling errors often typed by your users, go to the heading "Shop search" sub-tab under the "Stats" tab. You can see the words typed by your customers as well as the most frequent errors. Take the most frequent ones, and add them to your list of aliases, in order to point user to the correct product.
To create a new alias, click on “Add New”. The form below will appear:
For instance, let's say your visitor frequently "player" as "palyer" and "plaier". You can create an alias for each of these typo, which will match the word "Player". Once all of your words are configured click "Save" to confirm.
We also invite you to consult the section on meta tags, to better understand how to display products based on words typed by your customers. See Configuring product description on page 25 and Tags on page 47.