User Guide

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PrestaShop version 1.3 UserGuide – OCTOBER 2010
Installing PrestaShop
The first step in using the e-commerce solution PrestaShop is to install it onto your hosting server. You
must download the latest version of the online retailer software at
http://www.prestashop.com/en/downloads.
Downloading the software
Page of PrestaShop download
Once the download has ended you can obtain a record of it in a zipped file. You can un-zip it with the
help of file-extraction software. If you don’t have one, we suggest that you use software such as
Winrar, Winzip, or moreover the free software 7zip (http://www.7-zip.org).
Once you have extracted the contents, you are going to need to place it on your store’s host server. In
order to do this, you must possess a web server or request one directly through PrestaShop.
Provide yourself with FTP software to which you will transfer all of your PrestaShop file. For example,
you can use Filezilla, which is free, Open Source software: http://www.filezilla.com . Start up your FTP
program and connect to your server in order to begin transferring the PrestaShop file. Drag the file,
following the example in the screenshot below.