On May, 23 Prestashop team held the webinar in regard to platform’s evolution with the agency partnerships. A new scoring system was revealed: from October, 1st agencies will earn points to achieve certain levels – bronze, silver, gold and the highest, platinum one. Points will be awarded for contribution to the solution, history with Prestashop and more. A lot of other topics were covered, including Prestashop goals for the future and how agencies can get more visibility within Presta community. Have a look at the key slides from the webinar.

Prestashop Points & Discounts is a powerful marketing tool that allows customers to collect points for purchasing items and spend them on other products in your store as well as to create bundle deals. You can define how many points the user gets and needs for buying this or that product. Assign associated products and create bundle deals to motivate users buy more. Related items can have discounts and point rewards when bought together with the main one.

Key features:

• Reward points for purchasing products
• Bundle deals: % off and points for buying several products
• Customized invoice
• Possibility of giving out the points manually
• Multishipping support

If you read my article about Internationalization in Magento, you should know that there is a way to edit translation CSVs using one file – translate.csv. In order to do that, you just need to set locale via Magento admin area, then create translate.csv in app/design/frontend/<package>/<theme>/locale/languagecode_COUNTRYCODE and put your translated strings inside this translate.csv file.

Here are some tips and tricks:

It’s hard to underrate checkout process in Prestashop. It’s a finish line of online shopping; 5 steps for the user to pay for products and provide the requested information. How does it work from inside? Controller, steps of order placement, class-model, standard modules, standard hooks, templates – learn more about Prestashop checkout in this article.

We all make mistakes while developing and need to know where is the error occurred, but Prestashop will show the blank/white screen in case of any issues.

To activate a debug mode for Prestashop versions up to 1.5.3 you need to open config/config.inc.php and find the following lines: