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As obvious as it might seem, this is the Internet, and people from all over the world will certainly visit your shop, and order your products. As a shop owner, you must cater for as many customers as possible. This means having your website fully translated in as many languages as necessary, with local taxes, weights and currency units, local geographical zones, etc.
Appeared The "Localization" tab appeared with PrestaShop 1.5, the "Localization" tab and brings together many local settings and tools that used to be scattered in other tabs in previous versions.
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- States. When shipping product to a country, knowing which state it is sent to can prove important, as this might have an impact on local customs and taxes. The added states can be seen and edited in the "States" page under the "Localization" tab.
- Taxes. The real importance of localization is local taxes, and they can be numerous and varied depending on the country or the state. PrestaShop provides you with a basic support for the major taxes and tax rules. The added taxes and tax rules can be seen and edited in the "Tax" and "Tax rules" pages under the "Localization" tab.
- Currencies. Foreign customers will appreciate to be able to convert the prices on your shop into their own currency. You should at least have US dollars and Euros available along of your country's own currency (if not one of those two). Once added, you must activate a new currency using the "Currencies" page under the "Localization" tab, and make sure the conversion rate is correct. The added currencies can be seen and edited in that "Currencies" page.
- Languages. All the public fields on your shop can be created in multiple language, and it is important you do so for your products name and description, at the very least. Note that importing a language also imports its date format (d/m/Y, m/d/Y, d.m.Y, ...), among other things. The added currencies can be seen and edited in that "Languages" page under the "Localization" tab.
- Units. Weight, dimension, volume, distance: as many information that are essential both for describing a product to your local costumers, and for your own packaging information. These units can seen and edited on this very page, in the "Localization" section.
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Apart from the default units, you cannot automatically remove all the data for a given country; if you need to remove data, you will have to do so manually, in their respectives respective pages under the "Localization" tab.
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- Default language. This is the main language for your shop. This setting will influence your back-office's language (including the main language for your products), as well as the front-office. Note that depending on the browser's settings, the front-office's langages languages might adapt to the setting of the customer's browser.
- Default country. The location of your business. If you have headquarters in many countries, use your main or original country.
- Default currency. The currency in which your product's prices are first set. Currencies are added by importing and activating a country's currency. Note that if you change currency after having already set a few product prices, you will have to manually update all the existing prices. Make sure to set that value once and for all.
- Time Zone. You own time zone. This is useful for daily discount for instance: you know exactly when it starts and ends.
Localization
The physical units presented in this section (weight, distance, volume, dimension) are used both in your product sheets, and for your own packaging needs – and ultimately, is essential in your relationship with your carrier.
These values can be set when you import the localization package for a country, but you can edit manually them afterwards. For instance, if you'd rather have centiliters instead of liters for the volume unit, change the default "L" to "cL".
The values should be unit symbols from the International System of Units (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units).
Advanced
This last section asks you to set your server's local language and country, in as ISO code:
- For the language: ISO 639 code (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639).
- For the country: ISO 3166 code (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2).
These values can be set when you import the localization package for a country, but you can edit manually them afterwards.
Languages
PrestaShop comes multilingual out of the box: there are 5 default languages (English, French, Spanish, Deutsch and Italian), and many more are available to download.
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