06Oct
26Sep
Working with Attributes in PrestaShop
I have been working with PrestaShop now for over a month. One of the challenges is getting the attributes to work for the products. If you try to upload the attributes with the products in the csv file you will get a very disappointing side effect. The attributes will go to the cart all together so the store has no way of determining what attribute you are ordering. On the site I am working on we needed sizes for shirts. The sizes had different prices as well. The cart was catching the price change but put all of the sizes on the shirt not just the one size you would want to order. I figured I could just make separate categories for the product by size and crashed the whole site. Our hosting service has been working on this problem ever since. I have learned that the new php does not like having over 300 categories. My client's site had over 1300 categories when I crashed it. I then realized I needed to get the attributes to work. I found you can import the attributes separately and they will work just fine. Then you are forced to add the attributes to every product individually and they will work the way they are supposed to. I will be putting pics up soon of this process.
25Sep
New Hurdle with PrestaShop
I have had tons of problems with PrestaShop. My most recent problem is coming up when my price changes due to a combination. The price in the buy_block is wrong and doesn't match the price in cart that is correct. I checked the tax options and turned them off because they don't work either. I would like the simple things to work when I'm using such a popular e-commerce solution.
16Jul
PrestaShop Devlopment for e-Commerce in Chicago
We are pleased to announce that Naper Design will be developing our first major PrestaShop Template and Website. While we've enjoyed playing with it for some time now, we will finally have the opportunity to develop a major site with this highly versatile E-Commerce solution.
Here's a description of PrestaShop from the core site:
"PrestaShop e-Commerce Solution was built to take advantage of essential Web 2.0 innovations such as dynamic AJAX-powered features and next-generation ergonomy. PrestaShop guides users through your product catalog intelligently and effortlessly, turning intrigued visitors into paying customers"
PrestaShop began as a network and community maintained e-Commerce Software. The script is maintained in much the same way Wordpress is. The most up to date version of PrestaShop can be downloaded here.
It offers the Following:
Front-office
- Featured products on homepage
- Top sellers on homepage
- New items on homepage
- 'Free shipping' offers
- Cross-selling (Accessories)
- Product image zoom
- Order out-of-stock items
- Customer subscription & user accounts
- Payment by bank wire
- Google Checkout module
- Cash-On-Delivery (COD)
- Preconfigured for Paypal
Back-office
- Unlimited categories & subcategories, product attribute combinations, product specs, images, currencies, tax settings, carriers & destinations
- Real-time currency exchange rates
- Inventory management
- Unlimited languages & dialects
- 100% modifiable graphic themes
- Newsletter contact export
- Alias search
- SSL encryption
- Visitors online
- Customer groups
07Jul
Template Monster Releases New PrestaShop Themes
Brooklyn, New York, July 7th 2010 -
TemplateMonster.com, the Internets largest templates provider, introduces brand new PrestaShop Themes which are basically a brand new eCommerce solution designed specifically to provide the customers with the speedy and very lightweight tool in setting up their own PrestaShop stores.
PrestaShop is a new feature-rich and open-source eCommerce software which has a very powerful back-end for its size. Combined with decent and affordable designs PrestaShop is an efficient eCommerce shopping cart solution available for small and medium-sized online businesses. PrestaShop multilingual eCommerce system is fully customizable, quick and simple to install. And the site owners will appreciate its flexibility as it supports unlimited categories, sub-categories and image pictures. Besides, the store admins can manage the inventory, customers, orders, and payments easily.
According to companys authorities, PrestaShop themes provided by TemplateMonster are developed to take advantages of this new shopping cart system. The themes are HTML/CSS Validated and optimized for fast page loading, plus they support all major browsers and have built-in jQuery elements for even more spectacular design.
David Braun, CEO of the Template Monster, said, "Our customers have been asking us to launch PrestaShop themes for many months now. And today we can proudly claim that TemplateMonster now offers innovative PrestaShop themes brushed and polished by our website design pros. Dedicated to providing unbeatable functionality for customers online eCommerce presence, our PrestaShop design solutions ensure youll fully enjoy fantastic functionality of PrestaShop. Not to mention that the themes are extremely easy to modify. And of course we are eager to extend our PrestaShop selection by adding more and more new designs into this product type. So be sure to check back for more premium quality PrestaShop templates!"
Previously the company has launched the Free PrestaShop Theme for cell phone store. This template is still available for download at Free PrestaShop Theme download page.