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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 mean browsing through the many various screens of the back-office and deleting content one page after the other, but there is much easier way:

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THERE IS NO WAY BACK. Be sure to only click these buttons only if you do intend to wipe your database from its default content.

Tip
titleDeleting the iPod Touch... and the sample order

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 (see above), open its configuration screen and check click the "Delete Orders & Customers" button.

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Setting

Description

Where to find it

Shop name

Defines your brand, most notably on search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing...).

"Preferences" menu, "Store Contacts" page, then in the "Contact details" section, edit the "Shop name" option.

Shop logo

Defines your brand visually. The default logo says "YourLogoHere" as an incentive to use yours.
Displayed at the top left of every page of your store, as well as in your invoices and other automatic e-mails.

"Preferences" menu, "Themes" page, "Appearance" section, then change the various default images to your logo.

Default shop currency

The currency in which you want to set the default price for your products.

"Localization" menu, "Localization" page, "Configuration" section.
If the currency is not available, you must import localization pack for its country first: use the "Import localization pack" tool from the same page.

Customer service info

A block presenting the phone number for your customer service, and a button to send you an e-mail.
Displayed in the front-office's right column.

"Contact block" module.

Company info /
Contact info

A block presenting your contact address, the phone number for your customer service, and a link to send you an e-mail.
Displayed in the front-office's footer.

"Block contact infos" module.

Advertising

A block presenting an image with a link to another site.
Displayed in front-office, left column.

"Block advertising" module.

Image slider

The slider presents several images, scrolling one after the other. It is a strong visual signature for your store and products.
Usually placed front and center of the homepage

"Image slider for your homepage" module.

CMS pages

The content of static pages, such as "About Us", "Delivery", "Legal Notice", "Terms and Conditions", and "Secure Payment". Some of them have default content, which you should adapt to your business; some others are empty, and you should paste your own text.
Displayed in the "Information" block in the left column, and in the "Information" section of the footer.

"Preferences" menu, "CMS" page, then edit and create pages at will.

Social networks

A block presenting three links: your company's Facebook page, your company's Twitter account, and the RSS feed for your company's blog (or "current events" site).
By default, all these links lead to the PrestaShop company's own sites. It is important that you change it to your own.
Displayed in the "Follow us" section of the footer.

"Social networking block" module.

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Info

You can install and enable many languages if you think your shop needs them, but be aware that you will have to translate your content for all of the enabled languages: product names, descriptions, tags, category names and descriptions, static content (CMS pages), module settings, etc.

You can easily import many more languages in the "Localization / Localization" page, and then enable them in the "Localization / Languages" page.

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