Have you ever realized that open an online store is not as difficult as you thought decade ago? If decade ago, sometime it seems impossible to make a website by our own if we are not a web programmeror designer. But today, opening an online store only need a few clicks and not too much coding (if you are not a coding expert/web programmer). All you need is CMS (Content Management System), CMS make it possible for you to make a website, manage a website for only a few simple clicks even if you are not a web programmer. That's the good news, now everyone can open their online store.
So, do you want to make your own online store?
If you do, so I'll introduce you to Prestashop. Simple CMS with powerful features.
- Prestashop Front End
These are some Prestashop key Features:
- Allowing you to make unlimited categories and subcategories for your product. Also Product with Accesories Packs
Prestashop has numerous function that allowing you to make unlimited product categories and subcategories of it's product categories. Includes product parameters (characteristics) setting that represent the product itself. It is also allow you to make product accessories packs, for example a mp3 player product that recommends or suggests you to purchase it's accessories pack (earphones, audio cables, etc)
- Quantity Discount
Provide Quantity based discount function that give customer discount based on their purchase quantity. You just set the item's quantity to provide valid discount. So you can always satisfy your "big" customer and helps to keep them happy and keep purchasing item from you.
- Ability to create customers’ groups
Everyone is different, and so do the customer. You can not make treat your customer with all the same way that other customer might get. Why? Logically, do you treat your big customer the same way with your one time customer? Of course not. So that's why you have to make customer grouping, for example : reguler customer, reseller, agent/dealer, etc.
- Special offers (promotions, coupons)
This is one of the most effective way to keep your customers happy. Yup, Promotions and Coupon.
- Unlimited payment means (extensions available on addons.prestashop.com)
Allowing customer to choose what payment method they prefer. There are many free prestashop modules available on the internet. All you have to do is make sure it's compatible with your themes and other modules that you've installed before.
- Email notifications for delivery statuses (configurable)
Allowing you to send email notification to your customers for their packages shipment / delivery status.
- Package monitoring via package number
Prestashop also allow your customer to track and monitor their package status directly from your website using their shipment number.
- Delivery fees billing by price or weight
Prestashop provide customisable price or weight based Delivery fees.
- SEO optimized
Prestashop has automatic SEO optimized function, includes customisable meta tags meta title, keywords…) management, regularly updated sitemap. This is one of the most important key to Optimize your store in Google search engine
and many more features that make this Content Management is customizable and powerful. Check the full features HERE
Make an online shop with prestashop is not difficult (I'd rather said easy). first before you install, you can download the Prestashop engine here > Prestashop download.
If you already done with the download, you can continue with the Step by Step Prestashop Installation.
1 comments:
Prestashop Templates are very easy to install and customize and the good thing about this is that it's open-source and with its latest version 1.05 there are lots of improvements and changes that every user will enjoy.
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