How to manage my PrestaShop currency

PrestaShop uses hooks for displaying content generated by various modules. Hook is a special code placed in a template file. When PrestaShop prepares a page for displaying, it replaces that hook code by content of all modules assigned to it.

PrestaShop tutorials and tips

If you’re a PrestaShop user, you may have faced issues during the installation or updating of modules. These problems can be frustrating, but knowing how to address them can make your e-commerce management more effective.

White Screen of Death in PrestaShop: A Step-by-Step Guide

One of the most shocking issues you may encounter with PrestaShop, or indeed any PHP-based platform, is the infamous “White Screen of Death” (WSoD). This happens when you attempt to access your site, only to be met with a completely blank, white screen. No error message, no clues, just an unhelpful void. This is often due to a PHP error or a server issue that breaks the site’s loading process.

How to make a discount in PrestaShop

As any other modern ecommerce CMS, PrestaShop allows you to create various discounts and sales. You can run a sale on some particular products or entire categories, offer discounts to specific customers or everyone… And all this with just a few clicks in your Back Office.

Here are the main types of discounts in PrestaShop.

How to change order of modules in a hook in PrestaShop

PrestaShop uses hooks for displaying content generated by various modules. Hook is a special code placed in a template file. When PrestaShop prepares a page for displaying, it replaces that hook code by content of all modules assigned to it.

By default, modules are displayed in the order in which they were installed. But, of course, you can change it.

How to activate multistore in PrestaShop

PrestaShop offers merchants a great feature – multistore (or multishop). It allows you to manage multiple shops in one place. You can create several virtual shops, assign them different domains, set different templates, write different texts and still manage them in only one Back Office.

And here is how to do it.

How to change the shop e-mail in PrestaShop

PrestaShop sends various data to your email – orders, contact form messages, notifications, etc. You only enter the email once during PrestaShop installation, but if you need to change it later, there are several places you may need to check.

Here are the most common situations:

How to change database connection settings in PrestaShop

Most frequently you may need to change database settings after moving to new hosting.
Here is how you can do that:

How to enable or disable product comparison in PrestaShop

It’s really simple, you can do it in your Back Office.
This tutorial is relevant for PrestaShop 1.5 and 1.6. There is no such functionality in PS 1.7 by default.
Here’s what you need to do:

How to remove “/en” from URLs in PrestaShop

If you have multiple languages installed in your shop, then all URLs will include language code. And even when you open the home page of your site you’ll get that language suffix, even for default language. It doesn’t look fine but fortunately you can fix this behavior.

This tutorial describes how to remove default language code from your URLs (usually “/en”).

How to enable maintenance mode in PrestaShop

Sometimes during the work on the site you may want to make it temporarily inaccessible for visitors. In PrestaShop you can use maintenance mode for such purposes.
It may be useful during initial website development or while updating etc.

This article describes how to enable maintenance mode.

How to manage my PrestaShop currency?

Managing your PrestaShop currency is an important aspect of running an online shop. In this extremely connected world it is perfectly normal to have international buyers who will use a different currency than your own.

Adding and enabling currencies in PrestaShop

There are two ways of adding currencies in PrestaShop:

• The first one is to import a whole country localization pack which will include currencies, languages, etc. of the chosen country. Go to your PrestaShop admin panel -> Localization -> Import a localization pack tab -> choose the desired country from the Localization pack you want to import drop-down menu and press Import. This will also automatically enable the currency.

*Note: you can import only the currency of a country by un/selecting the appropriate check boxes.

• The second way is to add the currency directly. Go to your PrestaShop admin panel -> Localization -> Currencies sub-menu and press the plus sign in the top right corner.

• Fill in the required fields, click to enable the currency and press Save. The currency name is of your choosing, you can find the 2 ISO codes in Wikipedia. The exchange rate is usually calculated automatically but you can enter one that you like also.

*Here is an example of the filled fields:

Setting your default PrestaShop currency

• Your default currency is the one which you will be setting your product prices in and all other currencies will be converted from it.
• You can’t change your default PrestaShop currency if you have only one currency enabled.
• To change your default currency go to your PrestaShop admin panel -> Localization -> Configuration tab -> choose the desired currency from the Default currency drop-down menu and press Save.