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While PrestaShop makes it easy for you to install it and build your business online, it cannot possibly be a 5-seconds work: you are dealing with products, customers, carriers, and most importantly with real actual money that will be flowing from your customers to your bank account. We dare say you want to make sure nothing fails in the process of validating an order, having the products be found on in your storage location, then be packaged, and shipped to your customers without a single glitch, or even without anything unpredicted happening without your knowledge.
PrestaShop is a very complete tool, and the number of possibilities can feel overwhelming. This chapter will therefore lead you through some basic actions to perform in order to set up your shop before the big launch. A lot can and must be done before you launch your shop, but these steps are the essential configuration steps of any shop.
Deactivate your shop
We 'll will consider that you are still within the first hour following your installation of PrestaShop, in a single-shop instance.
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- Enable Shop. Simply set it to "No", and your front-page end will display the maintenance page to your visitors, which simply states that your shop will soon be back online.
- Maintenance IP. This is where you must put your own IP address, so that you can still get access to your front - page, and browse your shop as if it was available to all. This is a must-do every time you put your shop in maintenance mode, as you will always need to browser browse your front-end so as to make sure everything is in place as intended.
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The default installation features a handful of products – mainly Apple products, along with a couple of third-party accessories. Their only use is to help you explore the setup organization of a functional real store. After you've learned the intricacies of the ties between products, categories, orders and customers, you should delete all these items in order to start your shop with a clean slate.
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- products and their...
- categories
- attributes
- features
- manufacturers
- suppliers
- image mappings
- tags
- orders
- order messages
- customers
- customers shopping carts
- carriers
- price ranges
- weight ranges
- contact & stores (delete or adapt to your business' needs)
- CMS pages (delete or adapt to your business' needs)
This would means browsing through the many various screens of the back-office and deleting content one page after the other, but there is much easier way:
- Go to the "Modules > Modules" page,
- Find the "PrestaShop Cleaner" module and click its "Install" button,
- You are directly taken to its configuration page (if not, click its "Configuration" button),
- Click the "Delete Catalog" button: it will delete all your products and their attributes, manufacturers, etc.
- Click the "Delete Orders & Customers" button: it will delete all your orders and your customers.
- Finally, click the "Check & fix" button to refine your database integrity.
THERE IS NOW WAY BACK. Be sure to only click these buttons only if you do intend to wipe your database from its default content.
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The iPod Touch from the default installation is tied to the sample order (made by sample customer John Doe), and thus cannot be deleted until the order is deleted. Therefore, in order to delete this product, you first need to delete this sample order. To safely delete the default order (and thus be able to delete the iPod from your catalog), install the "PrestaShop cleaner" module (which is available in the default installation since v1.5.4), open its configuration screen and check the "Orders and customers" box before you click on the "Check & fix" button. |
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Configuring a module is easy:
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