Install an on-line shop - Part 3


Configuring your shop

We've now covered the bulk of what you need to know in order to build and run an on-line shop based around CRELoaded although there's still two tasks that we need to finish.  Firstly we need to localise the shop by specifying the currency and we also need to set the store location.  After that we'll add PayPal as a payment module.

To start the process of customising your on-line shop, return to the admin page (http://localhost/admin) and then click 'My Store' under the Configuration menu.

To change a value, click on the row to select it and then click 'edit'.  Values to change include:

• store name
• store owner
• email address
• email address from
• country
• zone (set to blank)
• store address and phone
• tax decimal places (set to 2)
• display prices with tax (set to true)

We now need to change some of the settings relating to the shipping so return to the admin front panel and then click 'Default  Shipping Options'.  You'll need to change the following values:

• Country of origin
• Postal code
• Maximum package weight
• Allow free shipping
• Free shipping over
• Shipping estimator (set to false)

Having set the location of the store and the shipping the next step is to set the taxes that purchases need to pay.  first of all we'll delete the default setting for Floirda by clicking on Tax Zones beneath the Locations/Taxes menu.  Highlight 'Florida' and click 'delete'.  Confirm your action and then return to the admin front panel.  Next we'll edit the tax classs so that it includes the UK sales tax known as VAT.

Click on Tax Classes, highlight Taxable Goods and then click 'edit'.  Change the description to 'VAT' and then click update.  We now need to set the tax rate for this class so return once again to the admin front panel and click 'Tax Rates' .  Highlight the tax class by clicking on it and then click 'edit'.  Change the Tax Rate to 17.5%, change the description to 'VAT' and then click 'update'.

Finally, we'll change the currency so return to the admin front page and then click on 'Currencies' beneath the Localization menu.  Click on the British Pound currency and click 'edit'.  Change the value to 1.00, tick the box beneath it to make it the default currency and then click 'update'.  Highlight the Euro currency and click 'delete', repeating this process for the US Dollar currency as well.

If you now return to the on-line shop you should see that all prices are now in UK pounds and have had UK VAT applied to them where applicable.