Tabs

Type of product

Product List

Footer

Basic settings

Images

Summary and Description

Feature

Brand

Related produt

Combinations

Quantity

Price

Categories

At this point, you are done with the essential information for a basic product page. You can save it and have it immediately available for sale on your shop!
But keep reading, as there are many more details you can add to your product to make it more attractive to customers.

Quantities

Managing Product Quantities

Product quantities are managed in a single tab. The way it works is quite easy: the page presents you with a table of all the combinations for the current product (if there are no combinations, the table simply has a single row). It is up to you to set the initial stock for all the combinations. PrestaShop will use this to determine when a product is soon out-of-stock or unavailable anymore.

Standard Product

• Quantity.
• Minimum quantity. You might prefer this combination to only be sold in bulk. Use this field to set the number of items to be sold in bulk.

Pack of Product

Pack quantities (A REPORTER EN 1.6)

• Decrement pack only.
• Decrement products in pack only.
• Decrement both.
• Default. Decrecement pack only.

Virtual Product

Associated file

When you're creating a virtual product, the second tab is renamed "Virtual Product" and it has a specific option "Does this product have an associated file?".

When you click "Yes", PrestaShop opens a new form within the tab, from which you can upload the file you intend to sell:

• File. Click the "Browse" button to find the file on your hard drive. As soon as you have selected a file, the upload begins.
  
  
  

  The maximum file-upload size setting depends on your server's settings, and cannot be increased from PrestaShop.

  If you have access to your server's php.ini file, these are the values you should change:

  • upload_max_filesize = 20M
  • post_max_size = 20M

  If you do not have access to the php.ini file, contact your web host about this.

   

  You should compress your file in zip format, in order to avoid the browser misinterpreting .exe or .jpg file formats. Browsers automatically download zip files for the customer, no question asked.

  If you are selling a high resolution image, uploading it using this form does not prevent you from uploading its thumbnail in the "Images" tab on the left.

• Filename. The name of the file. This field is automatically filled after the file has been uploaded. It is not recommended to change it to another value.
• Number of allowed downloads. You can set the number of time the file can be downloaded once the customer has bought it. You might prefer to limit this to 1, or 5. If you want to keep it unlimited, set the text field to 0.
• Expiration date. Virtual files can be of promotional nature, or lose their selling value after a certain date. If so, you can set the expiry date after which the product will not be available on your shop anymore. Leave it blank if there is no expiry date.
• Number of days. You can set the number of days after which the download link becomes non-functioning. If there is no limit, set the text field to 0.

Once you are done with the "Virtual Product" options, click on "Save" you can edit all the other available tabs as if you would for a regular product.

Product with Combinations

Combination generator

Availability preferences

Out of stock behavior

The "Behavior when out of stock" option enables you to set PrestaShop behavior when the product is out of stock:

• Deny orders (the product is not available for sale anymore).
• Allow order (in essence, you are doing pre-sales). 
• Use default behavior (Deny orders). This third and default option simple uses the global default setting ("Preferences" menu, "Products" page, "Product Stock" section, "Allow ordering of out-of-stock products" option).

Labels

• Label when in-stock. Enables you to display a message to your visitors when your product is in stock, for example "Item available". It reassures them that your shop can immediately send them the product.
• Label when out of stock and back-order active. Enables you to display a message to your visitors when your product is out of stock but they can still order it (as set using the "When out of stock" selector), for example "Pre-order now!". It reassures them that your shop will send them the product immediately once it is in stock.

You can also configure the general settings applied to all of your products: the default option is to deny orders, but this can be modified under the "Products Settings" in the "Shop Parameters section" ("Allow ordering of out-of-stock products" option), which is fully explained in the "Understanding the Preferences" chapter of this guide.

Shipping

The "Shipping" tab enables you to give some precious details about your product's package. It isn't available in the case of a virtual product.

• Package dimension (width, height, depth & weight). You should strive to fill each field, because knowing the exact size and weight of a package is not only useful to you, but PrestaShop can also direct specific sizes/weights to specific carriers automatically, based on these settings. The order's final price will appear to the customer once PrestaShop (or the customer) has selected a carrier.

   

  These values use the default weight, volume, distance and dimension units, as set in the "Localization" page of the "Localization" menu.

  These values do not have to be integers. If your products weight less than 1 lbs, you can simply use a period (.) to indicate the fractions:

  • 123 lbs
  • 1.23 lbs
  • 0.23 lbs (equals 3.68 oz)
  • etc.
• Shipping fees (Additional shipping fees). This can prove very useful to you for specific products that are particularly tricky to package, or really heavy.
• Available carriers. You can choose to have the current product only be shipped by a selection of carriers. If no carrier is selected then all the carriers will be available for customer orders.

Adding Product Combinations

Pricing

Retail price

The price of your product before taxes.

• Price – Tax excluded. This is where you can set an arbitrary price, independent of calculations and regular prices. Keep this field at "0" to use the default price.
• Price – Tax included. Displays the price of the product with taxes included. You can edit the value, and it will automatically update the "Pre-tax retail price" field according to the tax rule that you chose.
• Price per unit (tax excl.). The unit price for the product at the time of the addition. This is for valuation purpose.
• Tax rule. The tax applicable to the product. Choose between the different rates that you have registered.

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• Display the "on sale" icon on the product page and in the text found within the product listing. Check that box to show that your product is on sale, both on the product page and in the text on the product listing. An "On sale" icon will appear under the product. You can modify this logo by changing the following file: themes/default/img/onsale_en.gif
• Final retail price. This price, including the discount taken, will update as you type.

Cost price

Enables you to instantly know your wholesale, factory price, and thus compare it to your selling price in order to easily calculate your profit.

Specific prices: Managing Quantity Discounts

You can change the total price of the product depending on the quantity of products your customer buys, the user group, the country, etc. This is done with the "Specific prices" section of the "Pricing" tab. Click on the "Add a specific price" button to reveal the creation form.

This is a very easy way to create a discount price for this product (and all its combinations).

Click "Add a specific price", and a form appears.

• For. This enables you to be very specific about the various groups to which this price applies, including currencies, countries and even your customer groups (which we'll discuss in a later chapter).
• Customer. You can choose to be even more specific and directly set at who the discount you are creating is targeted. Start typing the first letters of the clients' first name or last name, and select the ones you want.
• Combination. You can choose to have this specific price apply to all of the product's combinations, or only one. If you wish to apply to more than one combination but not all of them, you will have to create a specific price for each combination.
• Available from/to. Here you can define a range of dates between which the discount price is active. Clicking each selector will open a calendar, simplifying the process.
• Starting at [] unit. Contains the value from which the discount should be applied. Default is "1", which means any quantity.
• Product price (tax excl.). This is where you can set an arbitrary price, independent of calculations and regular prices. Keep this field at "0" to use the default price.

• Leave initial price. Check this box to reset the "Product price" field and prevent yourself from editing it.
• Apply a discount of. The discount that will be applied once the client has chosen a quantity of product. Use the selector to set the type of discount (either a specific amount in the default currency, or a percentage of the default price).

Once you have chosen your values click on "Apply": the summary of your discount settings appears below. The discount will be immediately visible on the store.
If you wish to delete a value, click on the trashcan icon in the table.

If you want to build more complex discounts, go read about the "Price rules" menu in the "Creating Price Rules and Vouchers" chapter of this guide.

Priority management

A customer might fit into multiple prices or discount rules, even when you have set detailed prices and quantity discounts, with custom groups and shops (if in a multistore context). PrestaShop therefore uses a set of priorities in order to apply a single price rule to such customers. You might want the user group to be more important than the currency, for instance.

You can change PrestaShop default settings using the "Priority Management" section.

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The default order of importance is:

1. Shop (when in a multistore context).
2. Currency.
3. Country.
4. Group.

A checkbox at the bottom enables you to update the settings for all products. If the checkbox remains unchecked, then your changes only apply to the current product.

SEO

To improve your product listing as well as increase your store's visibility we suggest that you carefully fill out the various SEO fields: meta titles, meta descriptions, and keywords and friendly URLs.

To access the product's SEO information, go to the "SEO" tab.

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Search Engine Optimization

The fields in this page enable you to directly optimize your catalog's visibility on search engines.

• Meta title. This is the most important field, as the title that will appear on all search engines. Be very factual: you must convince the search engine user to click your link, not one from another site. Make sure the title is unique to this product within your site.
  • Good example: "Levi's 501® Original Jeans - Tidal Blue - Original Fit".
  • Bad example: "Item #02769869B bestseller".
• Meta description. A presentation of the product in just a couple lines (ideally, less than 155 characters), intended to capture a customer's interest. This will appear in results for some search engines, depending on the search request: some search engine might choose to display the searched keywords directly in the context of the page content. Make sure the description is unique to this product within your site.
• Friendly URL. This is another extremely important field. It enables you to rewrite the web addresses of your products as you wish. For example, instead of having an address such as
  http://www.myprestashop.prestashop.com/index.php?id_product=8&controller=product
  you can have:
  http://www.myprestashop.prestashop.com/8-name-of-the-product.html.
  All you need to do is indicate in the "Friendly URL" field the words that you wish to see appear instead of the default name, separated by dashes.
  The "Reset URL" button makes it easy to produce a proper friendly URL based on the product name. Once generated, you can edit the URL produced if necessary.

Redirection page

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• No redirection (404). Blabla
• Permanent redirection (301). Blabla
• Temporary redirection (302. Blabla

Options

Visibility. You can further choose to have the product available through different channels:

• Everywhere. Customers can get to the product by browsing the catalog, search for the product's name, or directly using its URL.
• Catalog only. Customers can get to the product by browsing the catalog or directly using its URL.
• Search only. Customers can get to the product by searching for its name or directly using its URL.
• Nowhere. Customers can only get to the product using its URL. They won't find it by browsing through the catalog or by searching for its name. This is great for creating private products, that only a few trusted visitors can access, even temporarily (you can change this setting at any time).

Options. A couple of specific options.

• Available for order. If you uncheck this box, customers will not be able to add this product to their cart. This makes it more like a single-product Catalog mode (in comparison with the "Catalog mode" preference).
• Show price. If the "available for order" option above is unchecked, you can either choose to display the product's price nevertheless (even though visitors won't be able to buy it), or choose to not display it.
• Online only (not sold in store). If your business does have brick-and-mortar stores, this option will prove invaluable when a product is only sold online, not in store – this prevents customers from checking a product price online, then come to your store hoping to buy it directly, and thus avoid shipping cost.

Condition. Not all shops sell new product. This option enables you to indicate the condition of the product:

• New. The product is brand new, sealed in its original packaging.
• Used. The product has been sold at least once before, and probably used by someone else (second hand). It should come in its original packaging, which might be closed with tape.
• Refurbished. The product has been returned for various reasons ("scratches, dents or other forms of cosmetic damage which do not affect the performance of the unit"). Read more on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refurbishment_%28electronics%29.

• Reference code. This is your own internal reference. It might be a number, or its reference from the storage location or its supplier, or anything that makes it unique.
• EAN-13 or JAN barcode. These are the numbers of the product's barcode, which are used worldwide in order to identify it. You can use either an EAN-13 or a JAN number.
• An EAN-13 is the product's 13-digit international article number. Read more on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Article_Number_%28EAN%29.
• A JAN is specific to Japan, but is compatible with the international EAN. Read more on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Article_Number.

Attached files

PrestaShop enables you to make some files available to your customers before their purchase.

For example, let's say you sell electronics, and you would like to urge your customers to read a document on how a product works. You can upload a document for that purpose.
You could also simply have the product's PDF manual directly available for download right on the product page.

Adding an attachment is really quick:

1. Fill out the file name of your attachment (it doesn't have to be the same as the original file name).
2. Give it a description. This will help you distinguish between your uploaded files with certainty.
3. Click on "Add file" to select a file on your computer to upload. As soon as you choose the file, PrestaShop uploads it, then displays it in the list
4. The attachment appears in the "Available attachments" list: you have to select it then click on "Add" to move it to the "Attachments for this product" list.
5. Save your product with either the "Save" button or the "Save and stay" one.

Now the "Download" tab will appear on the product's page (if the theme supports it), and your customers can download the file(s) that you just uploaded.

If you need to remove an attachment, select it in the "Attachments for this product" selector and click on the "Remove" button. The file will be moved to the "Available attachments" selector if you need to set it back online later on.

You can view all of your store's attached files, add some more and remove some, by going to the "Attachments" page under the "Catalog" menu. This also makes it possible to use the attachments that you already uploaded for other files: if you need to apply the associated one file with many products, you will thus only have to upload it once.

Suppliers

Indicating the product's supplier is not really important to your customers (very much less so than its manufacturer in any case), but it may turn out to be an essential part of your own internal management, not the least when managing your stock: you simply need to know who you bought the product from. The supplier of the current product is to be set from the "Suppliers" tab on the left.

You cannot use this feature if you do not already have at least one supplier registered in your shop. Suppliers are created from the "Suppliers" page, under the "Catalog" menu.

The complete supplier registration process is explained in details in the current chapter of this guide.

Associating the current product with one or more suppliers is really easy: simply check the box corresponding to the supplier, and save your changes.

Note: the "Default" radio buttons are unavailable by default. In order to select them, you must first click the "Save and stay" button" in order to select another supplier as default.

Retail price. The price of your product before taxes.

Price – Tax excluded. This is where you can set an arbitrary price, independent of calculations and regular prices. Keep this field at "0" to use the default price.

Price – Tax included. Displays the price of the product with taxes included. You can edit the value, and it will automatically update the "Pre-tax retail price" field according to the tax rule that you chose.

Tax rule. The tax applicable to the product. Choose between the different rates that you have registered.

Display the "on sale" icon on the product page and in the text found within the product listing. Check that box to show that your product is on sale, both on the product page and in the text on the product listing. An "On sale" icon will appear under the product. You can modify this logo by changing the following file: themes/default/img/onsale_en.gif

Cost price. This field is useful if the original price of the product changes simply because this is a combination.

Specific prices. Managing Quantity Discounts

You can change the total price of the product depending on the quantity of products your customer buys, the user group, the country, etc. This is done with the "Specific prices" section of the "Prices" tab. Click on the "Add a new specific price" button to reveal the creation form.

Priority management

A customer might fit into multiple prices or discount rules, even when you have set detailed prices and quantity discounts, with custom groups and shops (if in a multistore context). PrestaShop therefore uses a set of priorities in order to apply a single price rule to such customers. You might want the user group to be more important than the currency, for instance.

You can change PrestaShop default settings using the "Priority Management" section.

The default order of importance is:

1. Shop (when in a multistore context).
2. Currency.
3. Country.
4. Group.

SEO

The tools on this tab help you improve the presence of your PrestaShop site on web searches, and therefore reach more potential customers.

SEO means "search engine optimization". It represents a set of techniques and best practices aimed at improving the visibility of a website on search engines. You can read more about this at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization.

URL is short for "uniform resource locator", or simply put, the online address of a web page. You can read more about what a URL is at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL

By default, PrestaShop's deep URLs (specific pages rather than on the domain name) are rather uninformative for both the customer and search engines: an URL such as http://www.myprestashop.com/product.php?id_product=27 does not help visitors know what product is on that page. Friendly URLs are the way to achieve that, and read for instance as follows http://www.myprestashop.com/2-music-players/27-ipod-nano-green.

As you can see in the second example above, both categories and products can have a friendly URL: in the example above, id_category=2 becomes 2-music-players, and id_product=27 becomes 27-ipod-nano-green. While the ID number cannot be removed by default, the words can be either generated from the category/product name, or written by hand. This is done directly in the configuration page for the product or the category (in the Catalog menu): the "Friendly URL" field can be found directly in the main configuration page of a category, and under the "SEO" tab of the configuration page of a product.

There are other individual pages in your PrestaShop install that would certainly benefit from friendly URLs: CMS pages, user account pages, pages with automatically generated content... The "SEO & URLs" page presents you with a list of these pages, and enables you to edit their friendly URLs as well as their meta tags (title, description, keyword).

Meta title. The name of the category, as displayed in the browser.

Meta description.  A presentation of the page in just a few words, intended to capture a customer's interest. It will appear in search results.

Redirection page

Visibility. You can further choose to have the product available through different channels:

• Everywhere. Customers can get to the product by browsing the catalog, search for the product's name, or directly using its URL.
• Catalog only. Customers can get to the product by browsing the catalog or directly using its URL.
• Search only. Customers can get to the product by searching for its name or directly using its URL.
• Nowhere. Customers can only get to the product using its URL. They won't find it by browsing through the catalog or by searching for its name. This is great for creating private products, that only a few trusted visitors can access, even temporarily (you can change this setting at any time).

Options. A couple of specific options.

• Available for order. If you uncheck this box, customers will not be able to add this product to their cart. This makes it more like a single-product Catalog mode (in comparison with the "Catalog mode" preference).
• Show price. If the "available for order" option above is unchecked, you can either choose to display the product's price nevertheless (even though visitors won't be able to buy it), or choose to not display it.
• Web only (not sold in your retail store). If your business does have brick-and-mortar stores, this option will prove invaluable when a product is only sold online, not in store – this prevents customers from checking a product price online, then come to your store hoping to buy it directly, and thus avoid shipping cost.

Condition and references. Not all shops sell new product. This option enables you to indicate the condition of the product:

• New. The product is brand new, sealed in its original packaging.
• Used. The product has been sold at least once before, and probably used by someone else (second hand). It should come in its original packaging, which might be closed with tape.
• Refurbished. The product has been returned for various reasons ("scratches, dents or other forms of cosmetic damage which do not affect the performance of the unit"). Read more on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refurbishment_%28electronics%29.

• Reference code. This is your own internal reference. It might be a number, or its reference from the storage location or its supplier, or anything that makes it unique.
• EAN-13 or JAN barcode. These are the numbers of the product's barcode, which are used worldwide in order to identify it. You can use either an EAN-13 or a JAN number.
• An EAN-13 is the product's 13-digit international article number. Read more on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Article_Number_%28EAN%29.
• A JAN is specific to Japan, but is compatible with the international EAN. Read more on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Article_Number.

• File fields. Puts the indicated number of file upload buttons on the order page. Each button accepts only one file, so put as many field as you allow your customers to upload.
• Text fields. Puts the indicated number of text fields on the order page. You can add as many text fields as necessary.
  Example: If you allow your customer to use a 5-line text with each line limited to 14 characters, you can add 5 fields and indicate the number of allowed characters in the field's label. You cannot limit the number of characters in the string.

Suppliers

Indicating the product's supplier is not really important to your customers (very much less so than its manufacturer in any case), but it may turn out to be an essential part of your own internal management, not the least when managing your stock: you simply need to know who you bought the product from. The supplier of the current product is to be set from the "Suppliers" tab on the left.

You cannot use this feature if you do not already have at least one supplier registered in your shop. Suppliers are created from the "Suppliers" page, under the "Catalog" menu.

The complete supplier registration process is explained in details in the current chapter of this guide.

Associating the current product with one or more suppliers is really easy: simply click the box corresponding to the supplier, and save your changes.

Note: the "Default" radio buttons are unavailable by default. In order to select them, you must first click the "Save and stay" button" in order to select another supplier as default.