PrestaShop features a complete stock management feature: more than just merely listing how much of a specific product you have currently available, this menu enables you to list warehouses and get a proper view of your stock, its movement, your coverage, your stock orders, etc. Not all merchants will have a need for this feature. It is therefore optional, and…
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PrestaShop Documentation
PrestaShop Translations
PrestaShop provides you with a full translation tool for your shop. This helps you add and edit your pages translations. This way, you are the master of your shop and can handle your translated strings, or expressions, without having to wait for official translators to publish their corrections. Indeed, PrestaShop comes in many languages, and both the administration panel and…
PrestaShop Sample Usages and Specifics
Managing a catalog in multistore mode In the multistore mode, some of the PrestaShop administration pages feature a prominent drop-down menu, titled “Multistore configuration for”. This menu gives you the context of what you are doing: it enables you to set the shop or shop group to which the changes you are making are applied. For instance, when creating a…
PrestaShop Misc. information
Keep a test version at hand! After you have completed setting up your shop to get it just the way you want it, but before officially opening it to the buying public, we strongly recommend that you install a local test version on your personal computer (using WAMP for Windows, MAMP for Mac, or LAMP for Linux, or XAMPP for any of those platforms), or elsewhere on your hosting server.…
PrestaShop Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting Turning the error message display on in case of unexpected and persistent blank pages Module For PrestaShop 1.6 and higher you can use a module: https://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/513401-free-module-enable-debug-mode-from-back-office/ If your back office and/or front office start displaying a blank or incomplete page regularly without any error message, it is necessary to activate the display of the PHP errors in order to…
PrestaShop PHP configuration
Manipulating php.ini Many of the advices in this guide require you to edit the php.ini file, found in your server’s PHP install folder (not in PrestaShop’s folder). Not all hosts will allow you to edit or even access this file, so contact your host if you cannot access it. For instance, you probably won’t have access to php.ini on a…
PrestaShop Payment Preferences
Payment preferences The payment preferences are meant to help you decide which payment method should be available to your customers depending on the currency, the country, the group or the carrier. Do pay attention to this page if you want no suprises! Payment module restrictions on currencies Depending upon the payment, the customer’s choice of currency can differ. You can…
PrestaShop Setting a shop’s URL
Setting a shop’s URL Each shop can have its own web address (URL) – or even several addresses – entirely independent from the main shop (the first shop you have installed). You must define at least one web address for each shop. Two shops cannot share the same address. If you try to give a new shop an address that…
PrestaShop multistore interface
Managing your stores The “Multistore” page comprises three mains sections: Multistore tree. Gives you a bird’s eye view of your shop groups, their shops, and even the various URLs tied to a single shop. By default, there is only one shop, in the default group: the main shop. Shop groups table. Lists the available shop groups. You can edit them by…
PrestaShop Managing your Modules
PrestaShop comes with a set of modules that can be installed/uninstalled and configured as desired, in order to customize and complete your shop. The range of actions is virtually unlimited: the extensibility of PrestaShop makes it possible to turn your shop into exactly what you intend it to do, instead of you having to comply with constraints that you did not…
