As you go about your day-to-day tasks as shop administrator, you will regularly have to browse the many pages and options in the back office.
By default, the menu is displayed on the left-hand side of the page.
In addition, the vertical format can be minimized to only display its icons by clicking on the ">>" icon.
Each menu corresponds to a set of tasks:
① DASHBOARD
The homepage of your back office where you can see your main stats in real time.
For more information about this subject, please read our dedicated article:
② SELL
This is the heart of your shop, the place where you will add products, create categories, manage your customers, customer service, etc.
① "Order settings": You can manage your orders, invoices, credit slips, etc.
② "Catalog". This is the menu that lets you create your categories, products, attributes and features, promotions, etc.
③ "Customer Settings": You can manage your customers and their addresses.
④ "Customer Service": This is your customer service tool which enables you to manage exchanges with your customers, their messages, product returns, etc.
⑤ "Stats": This menu gives you access to a vast array of statistics and graphs recovered and generated by PrestaShop.
⑥ "Paypal & Braintree Official": to configure & view transactions made with Paypal
③ IMPROVE
This is the space that will enable you to configure the modules, your website design, carrier management, etc.
① "Modules": to configure, uninstall or disable your modules
② "Design": you can manage your theme, your CMS pages, the position of your modules, in fact all of the features that may impact the design of your website.
③ "Shipping": you will be able to configure your carriers and everything to do with your packages, in particular, shipping costs.
④ "Payment": you can configure the payment modules you have enabled.
⑤ "International": helps you to configure your shop with local elements such as language and translations, currency, units of measurement, taxes and taxation rules, and geographical entities.
④ CONFIGURE
It is here that you can configure your shop's general parameters, customer parameters, product preferences, etc.
① "Shop Parameters": PrestaShop is a highly configurable e-commerce solution and you can edit almost everything about it using these preferences pages.
② "Advanced Parameters": contains links to specific tools and information pages that could not fit in the other menus.