A business is an excellent way to start an online store is by using a shop template such as those provided by Prestashop Templates. PrestaShop is a modern e-Commerce system and templates solution is basically an open source package. You will get all the necessary skills of installing and customizing online shops. PrestaShop was introduced [...]

All shops not used to plain ASCII text content. Many special characters are not handled by PrestaShop, mostly those from languages that use a non-Latin alphabet. But PrestaShop is built around UTF-8, so you can easily support to the default behavior.How to handle the Carian language in PrestaShop? This method use the PCRE library. PCRE [...]

What is the Context object? The Context is a new technical feature of PrestaShop 1.5 and 1.6. There are two types of goals. Stop using global variables. To change the context of some methods. The Context is a registry for PHP variables that were previously accessed as global. This is a light implementation of Registry [...]

When we write code, there's one thing we need to focus beyond the results, and that's the code consistency. This means you need to adopt conventions that would make all your project's code like it was written by the same person. It doesn't matter how many people were involved, you can't differentiate personal styles. To [...]

Multistore is a very useful feature in PrestaShop 1.5.x. It allows you to create an unlimited number of different stores or websites within a single Prestashop installation. With Multistore, Management and Control are always centralized and you can sell out your products on different domains/sub-domains sharing the same admin panel. Following are the steps to [...]

PrestaShop allows you to add products as new, featured and special products for your store. New Products: Latest products in your store. Featured Products: If you want to emphasize the most important (best-selling, most recent, highest quality) product, then you can add all those products under Featured Products. Special Products: If you want to highlight certain products with [...]

Attributes are called properties of a product that may change between variations, while still keeping the same product name: color, capacity, size, weight,and many more. A) ADDING NEW ATTRIBUTE: How to add a new product attribute? Log into your Prestashop Backend. Go to Catalog tab and click on Product Attributes. Click on ADD NEW ATTRIBUTES [...]

Customer is a king of market. Customer is responsible for driving the market/your website so, you have to take good care of your customers. Customer profile contains all the information you need to have a package shipped to them. The Customers menu enables you to check on your customer's details, create groups to which you [...]

Taxes are required for sales of your goods within a specific region. These taxes may also apply depending on region to which your goods are being delivered By default in PrestaShop, a tax applies to all countries/states/zones. If order to apply a specific tax rate for a single country or a set of countries (and [...]

In today's scenario, multilingual website is an simple & effective way to create a durable impact on customer's surfing through the internet. A multilingual website creates a platform to promote and sell a product and a customer is three times more likely to carry out transaction when the communication is in the native language. PrestaShop [...]

In a default Prestashop frontend as catalog, which contains products and product categories. You can customize and use your store in your way by adding products and categories. Prestashop seems to be creative, creating content and giving value to your online shop. To add products does not only mean adding an image and some text, [...]