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You have to take good care of your customers. That means making sure their profile contains all the information you need to have a package shipped to them, following up on their support requests, creating special discount groups to apply discount to, knowing what are the currently validated shopping carts and the ones that , knowing which orders have been completed and which have been abandoned, and much more...
The "Customers" tab allows you to follow the creation of user accounts on your site.
You can edit the account of information for each of your customers, and even disable them, by clicking on the green tick checkmark or red cross"X", in the table shown. You can enable or disable an account, subscribe or unsubscribe them to an e-mail list, or subscribe or unsubscribe a customer from the e-mail list of a partner group.
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Fill out the customer's information and choose a password, at least 5 characters long. Type in the e-mail address and choose the date of birth. Choose whether or not this customer has the right to log in, whether or not he is subscribed to your newsletter or not, and finally, if he accepts to receive advertisements from your partners. Assign your customer to a group so that he may receive some certain benefits. We will learn soon more about groups later in this section.
Consulting a Customer's Information
In the case that you would like to have more information on a given customer, you can click on the "view" button. You will see this button at the end of the row in the customer's list. A new page will appear.
The various sections give provide you with some interesting key data on the user:
- Customer information, first and last name, e-mail address, sex, sign-up date, last site visit.
- Information regarding his subscription to the store's newsletter and subscription to ads from partnering companies, his age, date of last update, and whether or not the account is active or not.
- Private note notes from the store's employees (i.e. you or your team)
- Messages sent by the customer to the store's team.
- The group to which the customer belongs to.
- Summary of customer's past purchases. Amount spent, type of payment, order status. For more information about each order, click on the button in the "Actions" column.
- His various Entered addresses.
- His available Available vouchers.
- When your customer is on your site, you can see what he is adding to his cart in real time.
- His previous Previous connection to the shop.
Addresses
By clicking on the "Addresses" sub-tab you will have access to the list of your customer's home addresses. You can edit them at will using the "Edit" button, or delete them altogether.
You also have the possibility to create them yourself with the "Add New" button.
Below the addresses table is a button, titled "Set required fields for this section". This gives you access to a form where you can indicate if a database field is necessary or not , by tick checking the appropriate boxboxes, and click clicking "Save" once you're done.
Groups
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- In the "Name" field, indicate the name that you would like to give this group.
- In the "Discount" reduction, indicate the discount to apply to members of this group , for all of your products.
- PrestaShop is frequently used in the Business to Business (B2B) sector. Therefore, you can create a group of customers who can buy products without paying the tax. The "Price Display Method" drop-down menu gives you a choice between "tax included" and "tax excluded".
- Validate your settings by clicking "Save".
You can add a customer to a group of your choice by clicking on the Edit icon on the corresponding line. Then, on the "Groups" table, select the group to which you want your customer to belong to.
Searching for a Customer
Searching for a customer on your PrestaShop store can be done in two different methodsways.
The first method is to enter the information you have into the PrestaShop search bar, which is found in the top left of your Back Office. You can indicate:
- His ID (the numbers that he is assigned to the customer in the database).
- His first First or last name.
- His eE-mail address.
Select "customers" from the drop-down menu and then click "Search".
The results, if any, are then presented.
You can see his ID, his (or her) gender, his e-mail, his birthday, his registration date, the number of times he's ordered, orders and whether his status or not the customer is active or not.
The second method consists of going to the customer tab, and listing all of your customers.
From there, you can complete the fields to filter your results according to the following criteria: ID, Sex, First Name, Last Name, e-mail address, age, registration date, subscription to the newsletter, subscription to partnering ads, last connection date. Enter your criteria and click the "Filter" button at in the top right-hand corner of the table.
Click the "Reset" button to go back to the complete list.
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- Consult their carts in detail directly in from the customer information file by clicking on the button from the customer profile in the "carts" section.
- Go to the "Carts" sub-tab, under the "Customer" tab. You will see all of the shopping carts that have items in them. For instance, you can filter your results by the date that they were added. You can see the profile of the customers who check your site out, and, if you wish, use this information to improve your commercial performance.
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