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‘Offline’ order processing refers to orders where the customer submits there credit card  details as part of the checkout process for secure, encrypted storage in the  database. The site administrator then (in the Australian context) retrieves the numbers and processes the transaction via an EFTPos terminal or online gateway. In this way processing offline orders [...]

Viart Shop is a comprehensive e-Commerce application that is recommended by The Online Shop Designer (TOSD) for businesses who want to sell online to both retail and wholesale customers. In addition it has features that are not common in many other eCommerce applications. Here is a brief overview:

Fully featured Shopping Cart with all the usual [...]

One of the really nice things about the latest version of Prestashop is the included Content Management System (CMS) facilities that allow administrators to create information pages to display content relating to such things as Terms and Conditions or supporting product information.
To add an information page follow these steps:
Step 1: Creating the new information page

In [...]

Images for Prestashop eCommerce websites created by TOSD require one image to be prepared for each item that is (usually) 600px X 600px – 96dpi, and in JPEG or PNG format. Always check with TOSD before proceeding with your image preparation to confirm that these specifications apply to your website’s template.
The image size of 600px [...]

Prestashop has a very flexible and comprehensive attribute structure. In this article I will show you how to create simple attributes and assign them to a product.
Overview
Attribute groups describe certain variations of a product. A simple example would be an attribute group called “Colour”, that may contain the attributes (or options) “red”, “green” and “blue”. [...]