Prestashop Marketing: 2012

Thứ Tư, 12 tháng 9, 2012

Enjoy the great utilities with Prestashop

With the aim linked shopping on the internet, the shoppers check out one particular website. Moreover look for a web page location imaginable select one particular offered items. Associated with simple affirmation is usually support itself regarding on-line buying websites and prepare his or sites so that the shoppers ordinarily should attain one particular website moreover get started though using purchasing with this goods. Doing the modern day's technically matured population, it definitely getting simple and easy thanks to search engine optimization and provide one particular buyers inside your webpages. However changing one particular guests and consumers moreover buyers typically is what is becoming presently proved helpful. With this numerous services is often forth-coming of a professionals doing web-site designers, one particular themes moreover styles take worked well amazing things regarding resources.

By to prestashop styles, employees will most likely perform very own web pages to realise a excellent moreover appealing pattern making sure that one particular clients will most likely obtain a nice buying practical experience. Because people templates occur through PHP developing moreover code, could be changed moreover a lot more products is definitely included afterward, and create a result surely a whole lot eye-catching considering new kinds of items perhaps may be included.

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Thứ Bảy, 14 tháng 4, 2012

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How to Install and configure PostgreSQL on Centos/RHEL

Install PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL-server packages

[root@egrovechn]# yum install postgresql postgresql-server postgresql-contrib

Configure PostgreSQL Database Server

Initialize the cluster first with initdb command:

[root@egrovechn]# service postgresql initdb

(or)

[root@egrovechn]# /etc/init.d/postgresql initdb

Edit /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf file:

[root@egrovechn]# vi /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf

Set PostgreSQL server to listen all addresses and Change PostgreSQL port (default is 5432). Add/Uncomment/Edit following lines:

listen_addresses = ‘*’

port = 5432

Edit /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf file:

[root@egrovechn]# vi /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf

Add (example) your local network with md5 passwords:

# Local networks

host all all xx.xx.xx.xx/xx md5

# Example

host all all 10.20.4.0/24 md5

# All Network

host all all 0.0.0.0/0 trust

Start/Restart PostgreSQL Server:

[root@egrovechn]# service postgresql start

(or)

[root@egrovechn]# /etc/init.d/postgresql start

Change to postgres user:

[root@egrovechn]# su postgres

Create test database (as postgres user):

createdb test

Login test database (as postgres user):

psql test

Create new “pguser” Role with Superuser and Password:

CREATE ROLE pguser WITH SUPERUSER LOGIN PASSWORD ‘password’;

Open PostgreSQL Port (5432) on Iptables Firewall (as root user again)

Edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables file:

[root@egrovechn]# vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables

Add following line before COMMIT:

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state –state NEW -m tcp -p tcp –dport 5432 -j ACCEPT

-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp –sport 1024:65535 –dport 5432 -j ACCEPT

-A OUTPUT -p tcp -m tcp –sport 1024:65535 –dport 5432 -j ACCEPT

Restart Iptables Firewall:

[root@egrovechn]# service iptables restart

(or)

[root@egrovechn]# /etc/init.d/iptables restart

Test remote connection:

[root@egrovechn]# psql -h dbserver -U testuser test

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Graphic Design for Website by SaraAE

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Ecommerce Website for electronic items by davidalbert

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Thứ Sáu, 13 tháng 4, 2012

PrestaShop Addons – Start Updating your Store with PrestaShop PayPal Pro Plus

Update your store with PrestaShop PayPal Pro Plus which integrates with the PrestaShop eCommerce Software Latest Version and increase your store sales.

PrestaShop PayPal Pro Plus module supports, Authorize & Capture, Authorize only and Capture later feature. PayPal Pro Plus also provides facility to cancel/void any unsettled transactions. It also supports refund amount from configuration page.

Features of the Addon:

* Accept Credit Card payment through PayPal API.* Store Owners can configure the module between ‘Authorization and Capture’ or ‘Authorization only and Capture later’ – when the products are ready for shipment.* Store Owners can capture amount directly from configuration page.* Store Owners can void/ cancel unsettled transactions or refund full/ partial order amount from configuration page.* Support Shipping with Merchant Calculated Shipping Rates and Carrier Calculation Shipping.* Update Users and Orders info in PrestaShop.* Process orders using PrestaShop Admin UI.* Manage Multi-language in PayPal API Hosted Page in PrestaShop Admin UI.

Download PrestaShop PayPal Pro Plus
Click here for Demo (To help with installation process)
Read More About the Add-on Here
( Check for More Information about Compatibility & Requirements and Support )

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HTML 5/ CSS 3 and many more - HIgh payin! by ChrisBl

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Four Essential Steps for Understanding Your Store’s Key Data

It is indispensable to properly analyze your store’s statistics. Study this data to plan your next move and learn if your past actions were conclusive.

1. Study the source of your visitors

The first thing to analyze is the source of your visitors: is it direct traffic? Is it traffic from search engines?

This information is useful to implement relevant operations to increase your store’s traffic, such as Google Adwords campaigns, partnerships with external sites, etc.

Pay attention to search engine key words bringing users to your site: if the word “white garden chair” represents a source of high traffic, make sure that your visitors can find information on this product at a glance.

2. Watch over your store’s bounce rate

Bounce rate is the percentage of visitors who only go to one page on your site. You want a low rate. A high bounce rate isn’t bad just because it means visitors left, but also because it signifies that visitors didn’t find what they were looking for and left without conversion. Try to reduce your rate as much as possible by making some changes to your store.

Your store’s home page is a key factor that could lower your bounce rate. Make some trial changes over short periods of time (1-2 weeks). Add a slide show, highlight featured products and sale items as well as your strengths and satisfaction guarantees (delivery within 48 hours, 15-day reimbursement period, etc.). These elements will attract the attention of visitors who consult your catalogue.

3. Analyze the number of page views and average time spent on the site

These two relatively-related measures are great for learning if your community consults your catalogue. The longer someone spends on your page, the more likely you are to have substantial sales. This thus means your catalogue is clear and your users find everything they want. With each new page viewed, you increase your chances of sales.

4. Identify new visitors and returning visitors

It’s important to know the number of new visitors and “returning visitors,” those who come back to your site. You’ll see if you’re able to acquire new clients or if you retain the old ones.

This important data lets your qualify your visitors and spread out your marketing budgets according to your expectations.

By analyzing and crossing all your data and statistics you can thus qualify your visitors and implement efficient internal operations (changing your store’s look) and external operations (mailings, marketing, etc.). Take the time to analyze this data after every change to know its impact and pertinence. Statistics are effective and indispensable tools for better understanding your visitors and your store.

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New PrestaShop Themes & Modules to be Certified.

eGrove Systems is all set to launch innovative PrestaShop Modules.

Bookmark this post to know more about these modules.

PrestaShop Modules yet to be approved by PrestaStore:

Admin Order Management

* Prestashop Order Management Module empowers the Administrator to create orders on behalf of customers while taking orders over phone.

* This module also facilitate administrator to login as Customer in front end on behalf of customer and create orders in the website.

* The admin can then make orders using any of the specified offline Payments or Payment information over phone. The orders can be processed upon realizing the payment.

* This module also enables the administrator to update orders that are already made to offer discounts to customers for their orders placed earlier. This module can help create a discount voucher and update the order and send new invoice and email notifications to customers.

* The Admin can also edit the order products using the order edit feature in Back end.

Facebook – Complete Pack

Facebook Complete Pack – Social Connect Facebook module lets your customers to connect them from your website to Facebook through API. * The user can sign-in or login to your website using their Facebook account. They can promote your product information to Facebook for you using the Facebook like Social plug-in, Facebook share Social plug-in and post to their Facebook wall on order confirmation about their product purchase.

* This module also facilitates Social Follow us link i.e. Follow us on Facebook – link to your Facebook page. * Social Connect Facebook module uses four different blocks that can be used individually or as combined features. * Connect Social plug-in * Like and Share Social Plug-in * Find us Plug-in * Post to your Facebook Wall

PrestaShop Themes yet to be approved by PrestaStore:

PrestaShop Fashion Store – EGRTME4

Fashion Store Prestashop Theme helps you to establish your online presence with a professional looking website with captivating layout options to display your Fashion products. The Fashion Store Prestashop Theme has exclusive banner slideshow, easy top navigational links for category and sub-categories, top short cut menu and exclusive modules for banner ads, popular brands logo display, Home page banner ads blocks, customized footer links module and customized home page newsletter sign-up module. This theme also have customized wizard images for 5 page checkout process and can also support for one page checkout option.

PrestaShop Camera Store – EGRTME7

Camera Shop Prestashop Theme is designed for cameras, electronics and mobile stores with a good looking Grey & Green theme. Simple, yet clean & clear interface to give a professional look.

* It is designed to provide maximum space to display your products with a full width slideshow in home page. * This theme has been tailor madefor camera stores, electronic stores, mobile stores and general eCommerce stores. * Camera Shop Prestashop Theme also has a top menu with drop downs using JQuery, exclusive module for advertisement banner display in home page, simple look & feel for checkout pages and special modules for category browsing navigational block.

About eGrove

eGrove Systems brings to you its unrivaled strength in developing PrestaShop modules especially the Payment Gateway integration and Payment gateway modules. eGrove Systems portfolio includes design and development of eCommerce promotional & Payment modules,Search & Filter Modules, Social Media Modules, and other Front Office Feature modules.
eGrove Systems is a Software Design & Development facility managed by a team of software professionals with more than 2 decades of experience reaching out and winning customer confidence worldwide.

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New Templates and Modules Launched by Module Bazaar

Good news! Your online store is no longer going to be the same. To make your site look more safe… more secure… more appealing… and more user friendly, Module Bazaar has released new PrestaShop Themes & Modules.

Themes Approved and certified by PrestaShop:
Two elegantly designed and thoroughly tested PrestaShop themes have been Approved & Certified by PrestaShop.

PrestaShop Cosmetic Perfume Shop Template – EGRTME3 * This Prestashop Template is aimed at promoting online stores specializing in Cosmetics & Perfumes. This theme has been designed to reflect a sensuous mood which will encourage the user to stay longer on the page and buy more!

* This theme can be customized for a General Cosmetic shop, Perfume stores, Clothing stores, Jewelry Shops, Electronics Shops etc.

* This Cosmetic theme has a clean and rich appealing slideshow module. * It also incorporates attractive banner slot modules like, free shipping banner ad, Top brands module, Customized footer links module for CMS pages and My Account footer links.

* The template includes customized newsletter sign up module in home page.? PrestaShop Cake Shop Theme – EGRTME5 * This PrestaShop Template is what kids and grownups would equally like. It is structured well and all items can be neatly portrayed.

* This theme has been designed allowing maximum space to display your products. This theme has been tailor made for a Cake shop, Bakery Shop, Bar Shop, Restaurants, Hotels.

* Cake Shop Theme theme has clean and rich appealing interface with a full width slideshow module. * The theme also have attractive top menu with drop downs using JQuery, exclusive module for category browsing navigation block, and specials block.?

* This theme can also be customized or used for other retail shops and stores as well. This theme is designed to attract the visitors to your site thereby increasing the sales volume. ?

Modules Approved by PrestaShop:
PrestaShop has approved 2 innovative modules from PrestaShop Help.

PrestaShop Flexi-Product Search & Filter ModulePrestaShop Flexi Product Search Module & Filter is a PrestaShop Filter Addon module with Advanced Search & PrestaShop Product Filter features designed for ecommerce sites to handle heavy loads.

* This Module is designed with the user in mind. * To ensure unique shopping experience, the Admin module has been designed to accommodate all possible settings and features.

* Some of the filter criteria offered in this PrestaShop Advanced Search module includes powerful yet simple and captivating AJAX filters to filter.

* Unique features have also been included in this PrestaShop Product Filter to ensure hassle free product or service selection. Using any or combination of the above mentioned PrestaShop Products Filter, the users can virtually select the product that they chose to, with utmost ease.

* The products can be added with attributes that will ensure that the user knows what the site has in stock.

PrestaShop News Management Module
Displaying News items on the website has never been so easy!

* The News Management Module gives the Administrator the tools to manage and publish website news content in an efficient way and Search Engine Friendly News page and contents. * The News module offers the facility of adding news to the site through a Rich text editor and administrator can able to add news content to publish in a pre-scheduled date, i.e. add news to publish in future date.

* This module also has the news listing block in home page and can be positioned either in left column block or right column block.

* The Admin can add news from the back end with Search Engine Friendly contents like Meta tags, description and keywords.

About PrestaShop Help

Module Bazaar is pioneered by eGrove Systems is a PrestaShop Certified Partner and with a team of expert PrestaShop Developers adept in PrestaShop Module Development thoughtfully designing and delivering Premium PrestaShop Modules, Add-ons, Themes and Templates that add to the look `n feel that empowers your PrestaShop online stores.

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Thứ Năm, 12 tháng 4, 2012

Prestashop - Customers Who Bought This Also Bought

If your store has more than few products, they are not enought to display with limit items you configured, it is imperative that you automate recommendation of related products base on tags. The module provides you the casousel feature which allow displaying products on grid (with rows and colomns), paging sliders and play those paging sliders in carousel effect of jquery. It is intelligently way to capture customer intent and behavior as they add products in to their shopping cart. Also The module support two themes, with each theme you can put this module on expected positions as follow

+ Defautl theme: if you would like to need more space to show products, you using this theme and put the module on the productFooter hook

+ Block Theme: you setup this module on the leftColumn Hook or the rightColumn Hook

Show products from one category only: this option allow you specifying products will be taken from current category only or from other categoriesLimit products to displayAbility to choose order statuses for processingCarousel support: split products on rows and columns in pages. Those pages are played in casousel effect of jqueryOrder processing depending on selected order statusesSupport many Sortable type such as Created Date, Id....randomly100% Open Source, Clean Code and easy to customize

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PrestaShop Flexi Product Search & Filter Addon

PrestaShop Flexi Product Search Module & Filter is a PrestaShop Filter Add-on with Advanced Search & PrestaShop Product Filter features designed for ecommerce sites to handle heavy loads. This PrestaShop Search Module is designed with the user in mind. To ensure unique shopping experience, the Admin module has been designed to accommodate all possible settings and features. Some of the filter criteria offered in this PrestaShop Advanced Search module includes powerful yet simple and captivating AJAX filters to filter

* Products in Alphabetical order * Chose products by the Alphabetical range * By Manufacturers name or brand * By categories * By price range * By pre-defined price ranges * Products based on features.Unique features have also been included in this PrestaShop Product Filter to ensure hassle free product or service selection. Using any or combination of the above mentioned PrestaShop Products Filter, the users can virtually select the product that they chose to, with utmost ease.
The products can be added with attributes that will ensure that the user knows what the site has in stock.

Feature Packed PrestaShop Filter Add-on – Administrative Configuration Panel Settings

* Positioning the filter blocks can be configured by the admin by choosing either the left or right hooks. * PrestaShop Filter Add-on have individual blocks for each of the filter criteria like Manufacturer, Prince Range, and Product Category etc. * The entire range of individual blocks is based on according feature which enables the collapse and expanding of blocks on the fly. * One of the interesting features of these PrestaShop Flexi Search Module filters is that all the values used for filters listed in the individual blocks are hyperlinked and the block will be listed only if the block or all the attributes are enabled.Why PrestaShop Product Search & Filter Module
Intense brainstorming and study of user purchase behavior has been the backbone of the PrestaShop Product Search & Filter Module.
This PrestaShop Advanced Search Module release contains features that redefine the user’s online shopping experience.

* Product Search & Filter module can be installed and configured with utmost ease. * Flexible Administrative Configuration Panel of the PrestaShop Flexi Search Module ensures that the Admin can configure the best suited options for the users to search or to filter products. * Products can be filtered by name in the Alphabetical order, Product Name Alphabet Range Filters, name of the manufacturer, Product Categories, price range based on inputs for the user which includes the minimum and maximum range and also by pre-defined price range as configured by the Administrator using the Administrative Configuration Panel Settings of the PrestaShop Search Module.

* Products can also be filtered by features using the product attributes. * The PrestaShop advanced search module uses the agile PrestaShop AJAX filter technology to list the products in search result almost instantaneously as they are clicked or selected at filter box.

Admin configuration settings of the PrestaShop Flexi Search Module

* To position the Filter Block. * To display the keyword in the Search box based on the item selected in the Filter block * To set the maximum number of Search Results Displayed per page, when a search result contains more products that can be displayed on a single page. * To set the default Sort order for Search Results to be displayed.

Click Here for Free Demo
Download PrestaShop Flexi Product Search & Filter Module
For installation Process and Support, Click Here

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PrestaShop Cosmetics Beauty Shop Theme

Now a Cosmetics PrestaShop theme from eGrove Systems designed for the Angels! Wow!
It’s high time to spice up your PrestaShop targeting the gentle species…an online Beauty store for women with a flavor for class.

SheSpeaks.com conducted a great survey of women’s online and computer habits, and published the results in a comprehensive 65-page document. It’s a fascinating study that looks mainly at women’s social habits online, and most definitely has implications for online marketing. Looking at the results of this study can help you tailor your marketing campaigns to effectively, rather than ineffectively, reach out to women.

Shopping & Social

Not surprisingly, the top activity for women online is shopping. The third most popular activity is social networking, which is also not a surprise given the stereotype that women just love to talk. The fact that both of these activities are very popular with women means that there is also some cross-over issues to consider. If women like to shop online, they’re likely to talk about that online and there are probably certain kinds of marketing tactics that will work better with them.

What does a well groomed lady look for when shopping online?

* She looks for a clean design. * The product(s) that she looks for should be neatly presented. * She may not prefer complex designs or navigation. * And she should find it easy to take a decision and to “Add” to her shopping cart.

cosmetic template

If you are looking for an elegantly designed template exclusive for an online cosmetics shop look no further. A clean design to showcase cosmetics. Easy navigation… and tempting to buy!

This new theme form eGrove systems is designed this professionally PrestaShop theme to accommodate online perfume shops, perfume stores, makeup shop… whatever be the name… this is it! One of the best cosmetic themes designed!!
Like all other templates from eGrove Systems, this template too can be customized to blend and seamlessly integrate with your online shop.

This theme has an inbuilt slide-show module and attractive banner slots to highlight products and service options. It is also designed with the Top Brands Module, Customized footer links module for CMS pages and My Account footer links. Additionally this module has even got a subscription option in the home page for Newsletters from the store.

Click here to know more about the Cosmetic Beauty Shop Theme
(Live DEMO, Compatibility and Installation Support Included)

About eGrove systems and PrestaShop

PrestaShop Themes are brought to you by eGrove Systems Corporation, a PrestaShop Certified Partner and with a team of expert PrestaShop Developers adept in PrestaShop Module Development thoughtfully designing and delivering Premium PrestaShop Modules, Add-ons, Themes and Templates that add to the look `n feel that empowers your PrestaShop online stores.
eGrove Systems brings to you its unrivaled strength in developing eCommerce modules especially the Payment Gateway integration and Payment gateway modules. eGrove Systems portfolio includes design and development of eCommerce promotional & marketing extensions, shipping modules, Social Media Modules, Analytics Modules and other Front Office Feature modules.

eGrove Systems is a Software Design & Development facility managed by a team of software professionals with more than 2 decades of experience reaching out and winning customer confidence worldwide.

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Three Reasons to Offer Online Chat in your Store

57% of e-commerce site visitors abandon their shopping carts if they can’t quickly find answers to their queries. You can easily lower this rate by proposing quick and direct answers to your visitors’ questions right within your store: add a live Chat!

1. Increase conversion rate

This opportunity has a big effect on your sales: 15-20% of visitors who immediately talk with retailers get converted into customers.

The Online Chat feature is an instant discussion between the internet user and the retailer. Thus whenever a customer has a question, the e-merchant can answer him or her right away. Furthermore, the retailer can encourage his or her clients to make a purchase by offering reductions or other advantages (such as free shipping) via the chat.

2. Improve customer relations

Chat lets you also improve customer relations and increase the rate of loyalty. 44% of internet users say that being assisted directly during a purchase on an e-commerce site is the most important feature for them.

In addition, a study by the French Association of Customer Relations (AFRC) found that “85% of visitors that had a dialogue say they are satisfied to very satisfied, versus only 50% for email.”

3. Perfect the buying experience with customer feedback

Talking directly to your customers is also a unique way to understand the how your clients make a purchase: How do they act? What are they looking for? Now you have true feedback from your community that you wouldn’t have received by email (after all, one doesn’t often send an email to explain why they haven’t made a purchase). Listen to them and make changes to your store according to their needs and their comments.

Now you understand that offering a live chat in your store will help you improve your store and its image to your clients. This is an effective way to have pertinent feedback and increase your sales, all while staying tuned in to your community!

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A new Physical Data Model available for PrestaShop!

Good news for our friends developers, we are proud to offer today the physical data model of PrestaShop, which has been updated to reflect the changes made in PrestaShop v1.4.7.2.

The main benefit of this document is to understand quicker the PrestaShop database and to easily identify the main tables (ps_product, ps_orders, etc.).

It is also very helpful if you plan to extend PrestaShop’s functionalities and to create your own tables.

This model have been made using the Open-Source tool MySQL Workbench.

You can either:

MPD PrestaShop

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Thứ Tư, 11 tháng 4, 2012

PrestaShop Barcamp 5 in NYC: a Great Day with Great People in a Great City!

More than 320 participants were present for our 5th Barcamp in New York City! Thank you everyone who came out for this exceptional event!

The day was filled with lectures, workshops led by our team, and valuable tips from our partners. It was definitely a successful first Barcamp in the United States, and we can’t wait to see you again soon.

Barcamp 5

The energy at 82Mercer was truly hard to describe, so we’ve put up photos of the event on our Facebook page, check them out!

Head to our website to see some of the PowerPoint presentations by our key speakers and get their best advice and techniques!

“The world is changing quickly and you need Open-Source to stay on top”

Tim Schulz Google

“A great event, and a great product. PrestaShop is definitely the one to watch in the Open-source e-commerce space”

Fadi Shuman Pod1

“The Barcamp 5 was not just a great way to experience the vibrant PrestaShop community, but was also informative and fun; I will certainly be going to the next Barcamp!”

Steve Deckert Sweet Tooth

“We had a great time at the Barcamp. You guys did a GREAT job on everything!”

Marty Shue Carolina Custom Designs

“It was great to get together with the PrestaShop experts. We have received a lot of valuable feedback from PrestaShop users and we are definitely looking forward to the next Barcamp!

David Henzel CloudCache

“We had an incredible Barcamp with our American community.
Thank you for this amazing day, it was great to meet you all!”

- The PrestaShop Team -

Barcamp 5 PrestaShop Team

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Optimize your site for cell phones!

61% of cell phone users won’t return to a site that isn’t specially adapted to mobile devices. This figure demonstrates just how important it is that your business be optimized for Smartphones and other tablets. In this report, you’ll find 5 tips for promoting your mobile site purchases.

1) Site must be accessible

To improve your online presence, make sure your site supports all current mobile devices (computers, iPhone, iPad, etc). Your site must integrate operating systems used on these devices: iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows.

2) Loads in less than 3 seconds

Almost 50% of cell phone users will wait only 5 seconds before abandoning visiting a site. Remember, mobile consumers are often in a hurry and become frustrated when they can’t complete a task quickly. Verify that your site takes less than 3 seconds to load!

Since it takes longer to load a site on a cell phone, consider reducing your pages. Only keep images necessary for understanding your offer.

3) Simple and user-friendly interface

The specificities of the phone influence cell phone user behavior. The smaller screen-size and navigation system (mostly tactile) unique to cell phones makes navigation difficult. It seems necessary to simplify the user interface as much as possible, limiting the number of pages to facilitate your customer’s search. You must also reduce the number of categories and limit their contents. Use vertical menus, which adapt more easily to Smartphone screens. Your site must only have one column with blocks underneath each other.

4) Contains your entire line of products

Contrary to what one may believe, the device used to buy a product does not affect the purchase amount. Clients want to find all the products they love on the phones, so don’t reduce your offer. Let your clients buy whatever they want from wherever they are!

5) Indicates stores closest to customer

Today, the majority of mobile users use their Smartphones to search for information about products they intend to buy in a physical store. Therefore, you should consider indicating the physical store closest to your client. He or she will certainly be tempted to stop by and look for the product he or she wants to buy.

Growth perspectives for m-commerce are impressive, and the turnover for mobile sales is expected to pass 13 billion euros in France by 2015. Don’t wait any longer to enhance your site for cell phone use. Selling by cell requires different business practices than selling by computer, especially in terms of user-friendliness and content. Start applying the 5 tips from this report to your store and you’ll see your sales by cell phones increase.

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The Barcamp Conference Agenda has added New Special Guest Speakers!

Join us on March 20th at NYC’s famous 82Mercer for PrestaShop’s free E-commerce Barcamp and get the opportunity to become better familiar with the fastest growing e-commerce solution worldwide.
We will host a unique and informative event where you can learn and discuss the most cutting edge practices in the industry with experts from leading companies.

Our special guest speakers from companies like Authorize.net, Avalara and the CEO of Template Monster will offer presentations and thoughts on many topics that are vital to providing a strong footing for companies in this current global market.

You’ll also have the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion with some of the leading venture capital firms who will share what their top e-commerce companies do to grow faster than the rest of the market. Learn from investors that have funded companies like Fab.com, Lot18, ModCloth & Warby Parker…

Get smart and grow your revenues at the PrestaShop Barcamp in New York City on March 20th!

Visit our Barcamp site to register for free and view the most up-to-date conference agenda.

You’ll also have the opportunity to participate in one of six workshops where you will learn how to master all the tools and features available to optimize your sales and technical solutions. You can discover our versatile 1.5 version of PrestaShop and our powerful mobile app that will have you integrating our software smoothly and efficiently for your clients.

We will be more than happy to meet you at the event!

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Connec’Sud 10 mai – Montpellier

PrestaShop vient à votre rencontre dans le sud de la France sur le salon Connec’s sud à Montpellier.

Retrouvez nous sur notre stand et posez toutes vos questions à notre expert PrestaShop 9h à 18h30.

Pour découvrir toute la richesse fonctionnelle de PrestaShop nous vous invitons également à assister à notre conférence de 11h45 à 12h30 pour tous savoir sur les 10 recettes d’un site e-commerce performant dans le but d’améliorer votre boutique en ligne.

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How to go International with an E-Commerce Website?

Currently only 7% of European consumers buy online from a foreign site, yet many e-commerce sites are trying to extend their products internationally. Their main motivation is an increase of turnover; a study by Eurostat (Statistical Office of the European Community) shows that 11% of international e-commerce site sales come from foreign consumers. This strategy can really pay off. Here are three key tips for internationalizing an e-commerce site.

1. Understand the Culture of Target Countries

The European Union can count more than 500 million inhabitants in 27 nations speaking 23 official languages. All these countries have different cultures. An e-commerce site wishing to expand into foreign countries must first perform market research in the targeted countries in order to better understand them. You must avoid a cultural gap between the store and its consumers.

The choice of the country is usually tied to the activity of the store. Countries are often specialized by domains: Spain is an expert in tourism and culture while German consumers prefer ready-to-wear and the English like sporting goods and food. Before going international, make sure to do a lot of work ahead to avoid problems due to a culture gap.

2. Avoid a Language Barrier

Language is a key issue not to be neglected. It’s naturally the first barrier to internationalizing a commercial site; no one wants to buy a product on a site they can’t understand.

On the countrary, a good command of the host country’s language could land you very positive feedback. LinkedIn, for example, increased its Spanish membership by 128% after translating its site into Spanish. To really break the language barrier, don’t hesitate to hire translators who are native speakers of the target country’s language.

3. Choose a Secure Payment System

85% of cyber-buyers use a credit card. This is undoubtedly the most well-known and easiest means of payment worldwide. Therefore, it is absolutely imperative to have a secure system o payment by credit card on your site. In Europe there are more than 41 different well-known online payment systems. For convenience, use high-profile universal systems such as PayPal. The choice of a payment method lets you create a climate of trust between the consumer and the store. PrestaShop has more than 118 well-known payment modules. If you want to sell abroad, take a look at PrestaShop Addons for these helpful modules.

To achieve internationalization, you must above all understand the consumer and be able to reassure him or her. Therefore knowledge of their culture and language, as well as the use of a secure payment system, are good means for selling abroad.

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Promote impulse buying on your e-commerce site

The internet, as an immediate media, is ideal for impulse buys. A selection of promotional offers placed on your site can boost e-shoppers unplanned purchases. In this newsletter you’ll learn how to identify and use them wisely to increase the volume of your sales!

1) Flash sales

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‘Flash sales’, or sales with a time limit, are widely used by e-retailers to promote impulse buys. Spurred on by an attractive offer with a tight time limit, the e-shopper must quickly make a decision or risk losing the offer for good.

- The speedsale.se example

On this Swedish site, the customer has 4 seconds to decide if they want to buy a product or not!
Once you click on ‘i’m ready to shop’, they offer you the first discounted product and you have four seconds to click on it if you want to buy it! If you don’t click on the product within the four seconds, it disappears and another reduced product replaces it, and so on… If you miss a product, it is impossible to go back, you can simply no longer benefit from the offer!

speedsale

The site does not redirect you to a product page, it simply displays a photo of the product with the price clearly marked.

The price is the determining factor for an impulse buy, it’s the price, circled in red, which attracts your attention first.

The creation of these ‘flash sales’ makes shopping really enjoyable. The buying process is combined with a game, creating excitement and a surge of adrenaline in the case of a great deal combined with disappointment and frustration when the result doesn’t live up to your hopes. This highly addictive shopping experience can significantly increase sales.

www.speedsale.se

- eBay daily deals

Here is another example of flash sales that you may use on your site. eBay offers internet shoppers ‘daily deals’ on numerous product categories for one day only. This is a clever way of encouraging e-shoppers to make purchases that they may not have planned. It’s hard to resist products with up to 80% off the normal price!

Daily deals
http://deals.ebay.com/

- Private sales

Private sales are sales reserved for certain customers. They come with a time limit and often encourage impulse buys. On your site you could, for example, restrict access to certain product categories to let certain customers benefit from reduced products that they would be unable to find elsewhere.

- Free delivery

Knowing that e-shoppers are sensitive to immediate reductions, you could offer free shipping for certain product categories for a limited time period. The aim: encouraging people to purchase products that they had not previously considered buying.

- Discount codes

Using the same concept as for delivery, you could also offer valuable discount codes which are only valid for a limited time period. For example, boldly display your discount code for your customers to see, for example ‘Discount code: LRR58, valid until this evening on all products’. Customers will make the most of this temporary deal, buying products that they would not have bought without your discount.

It’s also worth noting that these discount offers, as well as impulse buys, encourage customers to return to your site for future purchases. 32% of e-shoppers who have benefited from a coupon or discount code from a shop return to make another purchase. Get double the reward: increase the volume of sales and turn buyers into faithful customers!

2) Product stock levels

Displaying available stock can, to a certain extent, benefit impulse buying. If the number of products in stock is low, the customer interested in the product will be in more of a hurry to buy through fear of no longer finding the product at the proposed price on the site.

So as you have seen, there are many ways of promoting impulse buying on your site. All the promotional offers that we have discussed here: flash sales, discount codes, free delivery… encourage e-shoppers towards products that they hadn’t previously been interested in buying. More people participating means more customers returning. Put this advice into practice and boost your sales!

> Discover the PrestaShop Add-ons for creating flash sales on your shop

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IT DAYS 12 avril – Lille

Exceptionnel, PrestaShop sera présent au sur le salon IT days de Lille le jeudi 12 avril 2012 de 8h30 à 18h30.

Venez découvrir la solution Open-sources numéro 1 en Europe, déjà adoptée par près de 120 000 sites dans le monde. Nos experts seront ravis de vous y accueillir, de vous présenter toute la richesse fonctionnelle de notre logiciel et de vous accompagner dans votre projet de boutique en ligne.

Assistez à notre conférence de 11h50 à 12h40, pour tout savoir sur notre application Mobile.

Retrouvez-nous à:
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Matinée E-commerce WebXY 12 avril – Paris

Matinée E-commerce

Retrouvez PrestaShop et l’agence WebXY pour une nouvelle Matinée E-commerce le 12 avril à Paris. Apprenez les recettes d’une boutique en ligne performante avec PrestaShop, solution e-commerce n°1 en Europe, et découvrez le savoir-faire de WebXY au travers d’exemples concrets réalisés sous PrestaShop.

Que vous soyez une boutique B2C ou B2B, profitez de cette Matinée E-commerce pour améliorer vos connaissances en matière d’ergonomie et de systèmes d’information pour le succès de votre site marchand !

Bénéficiez de 2 heures de conseils personnalisés avec WebXY dont l’expérience et l’expertise l’ont conduit à une certification « Partenaire Or » avec PrestaShop, gage de qualité et de pérennité pour les e-commerçants.

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Informations pratiques :
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- Mais aussi, un exemple d’extranet B2B avec ses spécificités fonctionnelles relié au progiciel de gestion Sage
- Et pour finir la solution de liaison entre PrestaShop et les principaux ERP du marché (Sage, Cegid…) 11h30 -12h00 Atelier questions/réponses

Depuis 2000, WebXY accompagne les TPE/PME dans la création de sites Web et plus particulièrement, dans la mise en place de sites e-commerce reliés à des ERP ou à d’autres progiciels verticaux.

Partenaire des grands acteurs de solutions de gestion (Sage, Cegid, Microsoft…), de solution de paiement, de référencement professionnel ou encore de logistique, WebXY c’est l’assurance de projets Web aux multiples facettes réussis dans des formules « clés en mains » ou en mode « projet avancé » pour un accompagnement global en toute sérénité.

WebXY est présente en Ile de France et en région PACA

Plus d’infos sur www.webxy.com

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Prestashop - Lof User Upload

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Font Office:

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ECommerce and Payment Gateway Integration

Online commerce is eCommerce. It is the process of using a website to distribute, buy, sell or market goods and services, and the transfer of funds online. ECommerce is also commonly referred to as online commerce, Web commerce, eBusiness, eRetail et al.

Features of an eCommerce site:

Websites can be broadly classified into two types. One, sites that offer information. Two, sites that are used for commercial purposes – eCommerce enabled online stores.

To effectively distribute, market and sell goods or services Online you will need certain features only found on eCommerce sites including a shopping cart, ability to process credit cards, online product catalog, automated inventory system, databases, bulk email program, statistics tracking and other non-computer technologies such as product warehousing and shipping transportation.

ECommerce applications:

Some prominent eCommerce applications include Volusion, Shopify, and Ashop Commerce, BigCommerce, 3DCart, goEmerchant, CoreCommerce, Fortune3, YahooMerchant, and ProStores etc.

Many OpenSource eCommerce Tools are also available including AbanteCart, Interchange, Magento, osCommerce, OFBiz, osCommerce, PrestaShop, VirtueMart, ZenCart etc.

Payment Gateway

Like every other form of commerce, payment too is an integral part of any ecommerce application. Numerous methods are available for making an online payment. Payment Gateway is an interface to facilitate the safe and secure transfer for information between a payment portal (a website, mobile phone or an IVR service) and the Front End Processor – often being a bank. The payment gateways perform a series of tasks to process a transaction initiated by a customer to purchase product(s) or service from a payment gateway-enabled merchant site.

Why do we need a Payment Gateway?

As mentioned in the beginning of this post, a payment gateway is required to facilitate electronic (online) transactions. Some of the key features of a payment gateway include:

* Encryption of payment & personal data. * Communication between the financial institutions involved and the merchant and the customer. * Authorization of payments.

Secure transactions

Payment gateways are designed to protect credit/debit card details by encrypting sensitive information using Secure Socket Layer technology (SSL). All information pertaining to a transaction is passed securely between the customer and the merchant and also between the merchant and the payment processor.

Some of the most popular payment gateway modules include Authorize.net, PayPal Pro, PayPal UK 3d secure, Payflow Pro, FirstData, eWay UK, eWay Australia, eCheck Authorize.net

So, how exactly does a Payment Gateway work?

A payment gateway uses the internet to send and receive information. This is a secure transaction module which facilitates purchase transactions. Not only eCommerce sites but also traditional business houses use payment gateways as the transactions are safe and payments can be immediately authorized. Payment gateways are faster as they use the internet as a medium while the conventional pay-using-credit-card-swiping-machines use the phone lines.

EGrove Systems a software development firm winning the trust of customers worldwide is making inroads into innovative methods of payment integration. Integrating Internet Payment Solutions is a specialization that eGrove Sys is good at. The Integrations services include integration of PayPal, Authorize.net, ChronoPay, Realex, and eWay payment systems.

Great care is taken to ensure that all the integration process is seamless, safe and secure.

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Mar262012News about the 1.5 version: we need your efforts!

Author: Quentin Audrain

Categories: new release

We know that you expect it and the 18 PrestaShop developers of the solution and the whole team are working hard to bring you the best 1.5 final version as soon as possible.

Throughout the development process, many features have been added to those we had anticipated when the developments of version 1.5 began. These features, which will be very useful for every shop and the whole community, delayed this release.

We want to offer to current and future merchants, web agencies, developers, web designers, etc. a powerful version that is easy to use and it is for these reasons that the delays have lengthened. A test and quality department of 4 persons has been established within the PrestaShop team to be absolutely sure that the version offered to the community is stable and usable by all as soon as possible.

On the advice of this test and quality department, we let ourselves at least a couple of months to develop, stabilize and improve the version 1.5 Beta and present you with a powerful RC version for all uses. We are counting on you to help us finalize this version, your contributions can help us go faster! Several agencies, vendors and developers are already involved in optimizing this version on a daily basis, and you can do the same. Your support is crucial at this stage of the project.

We are currently defining a precise release date and rest assured, we will announce this soon. A new 1.5 Beta version is available today for testing purposes.

We will continue to regularly publish new Beta versions and will keep you posted of our progress. In the meantime, please feel free to use version 1.4.7 for your live stores.

Thank you for your patience. Please join us on the forums and the Forge to interact with the PrestaShop team. We are counting on the entire community to help us make this 1.5 release an amazing leap in e-commerce software!

10 RepliesREPLY

Author: blueinferno2001

Date: March 28, 2012 at 7:37 am

Is Prestashop 1.5 going to allow creating orders from the back office?

Author: Quentin Audrain

Date: March 29, 2012 at 9:35 am

Hi,
Yes you’ll be able to create and edit orders from the Back Office on the 1.5 version !

Author: lubosl

Date: March 29, 2012 at 9:50 am

Hi
Will be possible to change order numbering system?
instead of order number #00000021 can be changed to format: YYMMDD###### 2012032900001 or some similar?

Author: jikdor

Date: April 5, 2012 at 11:41 pm

I’m also wondering about this.

Author: Lxwebsolutions

Date: March 29, 2012 at 12:17 pm

its really nice to hear that we are also waiting for this

Author: shzmusic1

Date: March 30, 2012 at 10:34 am

tnx for presta 1.5

bye

Author: Jam Tangan

Date: April 1, 2012 at 3:09 pm

i’m waiting for it’s release

Author: crystalphoenix18

Date: April 1, 2012 at 3:15 pm

Any chance that 1.5 will allow for list-or-grid for product category pages? I much prefer grid but have to go with a third-party theme to accomplish this. I’d rather stick with default theme…

Author: Chaussures pas cher

Date: April 2, 2012 at 8:09 pm

thank you for prestashop1.5

Author: Monica Fernandis

Date: April 4, 2012 at 10:35 am

Hi,

I have put my website development on hold for version 1.5, and have been waiting since February, since last time I was told it will be ready in March.

Could you give me an approximate release date i.e in 1 month or 3 months or 6 months. Coz accordingly I can choose version 1.4.7 to start or wait for version 1.5

Thanks,
Monica

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