Prestashop 1v.6

When you no longer want a product in your store, you have two options. You can either disable the product or delete it from your database entirely. Disabling products is usually the best option as it preserves the data integrity of your site. If you need to get information for a product that a customer Read More >

During the lifetime of your shop, you will have products come and go. Some will be discontinued, some will be test market products, some will be seasonal. There are many reasons why you may want to disable a product, however there are very few occasions you should want to actually delete a product. In this Read More >

What is a product feature? When working with products, you will discover there are many common features your products have. For example you may have a ‘Composition‘ feature. This is what the product is made out of and can be many different materials. If you sell clothing this may be cotton, denim or polyester. Perhaps Read More >

When working with your products in your PrestaShop 1.6 store, there is a lot of information that can be entered to describe your products. These are broken down into tabs on the left hand side of the main product page. One of these tabs, the Features tab, is where you will enter the different important Read More >

When adding a product in PrestaShop 1.6, there are fields available to type in a Short description and a Description (long description). Question: How do you know what to type into the short description and what to type in the long description? Answer: Knowing where short descriptions and long descriptions are used within your store Read More >

The following article covers the optimization options present within PrestaShop 1.6. These options will help make your PrestaShop installation load and perform faster. We will describe the performance and caching options available within the newly re-designed PrestaShop 1.6 interface. Smarty Configuration Smarty is the php template engine used by PrestaShop. You will want to make Read More >

Proper stock management is needed when running a store, whether it is online or a brick and mortar building. PrestaShop offers easy management of your product’s available stock via the Quantities tab. Below is a quick tutorial on the tab and how ot works with your products. How to manage product quantities in PrestaShop 1.6 Read More >

One of the more important selling points for your products is the image. With a proper image, more customers will buy your items. Products without images typically do not sell as well. In this article, we will show how to add images to your products in PrestaShop 1.6 How to add product images in PrestaShop Read More >

Your product has been created, priced, and assigned to a category. Now it is ready to be bought by your customers. Once bought, it can then be shipped. This article covers how to add specific shipping details to an individual product. These include package size and any additional shipping charges that need to be added Read More >

Once you have created and priced your product, you will want to add it to a category so that it is easily found in your store. You can associate products with more than one category. You will also want to assign them to as many relevant categories as possible. This tutorial walks you through the Read More >

After you have created your product, you will need to add a few more details before it is ready to sell. One of the more important details is price. Pricing is more than a just a random assigned number. There are several settings involved as well as special pricing you may want to consider for Read More >

So you have already installed your PrestaShop 1.6 store and you are ready to go. You will need to know how to add products to your store so you can sell them to your visitors and make money. There are many different aspects to products, but this article will focus on the basics of adding Read More >

Now that you know how to add new categories to your PrestaShop 1.6 store, you will need to understand the proper way to remove them. Removing them is not as simple as deleting the category itself. You need to take into account the products that are within the categories themselves. Below is a quick tutorial Read More >

Once you have created several categories, you may want to rearrange them a bit. Perhaps you want to order them from the most popular to the least, or maybe you take the standard approach and order them alphabetically. In any case, you will need to know how to reorder them from within the back office. Read More >

What is a product category? Categories help to organize your products in order to help your customers find them easier. It divides them up into logical groups. These can be stacked so that you have larger categories, such as “Computers”, and then have smaller subcategories such as “Desktops” and “Laptops”. Follow the instructions below to Read More >

After you have installed PrestaShop either manually or via the Softaculous installer tool, you will be ready to log into your site and begin creating your store. The admin area, often called the back office, is the section of your store your visitors are not able to see. From here you will be able to Read More >

In this article: PrestaShop 1.6 Feature List PrestaShop 1.6 Update Progress UPDATE (03/17/14): PrestaShop 1.6 has been released! Download PrestaShop 1.6 here! Prestashop 1.6 incorporates Bootstrap 3.0 , FontAwesome, Sass Compass, and D3 Data to provide an efficient, responsively designed ecommerce storefront and back-end. Using feedback from merchants and developers, the administrator dashboard was re-designed Read More >

InMotion Hosting customers can install Prestashop with Softaculous. PrestaShop has become one of the most popular shopping cart programs over the last few years. It can be installed very easily on most web hosting servers, especially here at InMotion Hosting. PrestaShop will allow you to create your own online store where you can sell products Read More >