How to prepare to create your online store with Magento or Prestashop

You want to engage in ecommerce and put an online store , two options are available:

1. You already have a business and want to expand your sales by launching you into the adventure Internet, by posting some or all of your articles (about a hundred articles).
2. You do not trade, but you want to grow your income by creating a small online store, you can learn from the example of Tocoda example. In this case the first thing to do is to find the right idea. I suggest you go for a ride on a very good site: Adsense Niche , full of ideas for websites all over the original one than the others (like: a site of activities for children or a site of application marriage ...).

You now know how to choose ecommerce, you must determine which platform is most suitable.

I suggest you initially test your shop locally on your computer, why:

• It's easier and faster to install
• You can make comparisons by installing various software
• You can get 'hand' without fear for your online store

To achieve this step we will detail the software installation Magento and Prestashop .

Create your store using Magento

I suggest you install the test database, even if the products do not match those that you want to sell in your ecommerce. So you can give an initial idea to create products and you can refer to existing products when you have a question about creating one of your products.

To do this go to our page: Install the test database on Magento .

And help you in our video how to install Magento locally . This is to detail the steps to install:

• A local Apache server
• Your Mysql database
• Magento itself
• The establishment of French package for Magento

It'll just choose the theme to use for your online store, if you do not want to use the default, why you can go to the following sites: Ecommerce-themes.com or Magthemes.com .

Before you can use Magento if you wish to install the effect lighbox images of your product pages . This effect will look more at your pro shop.

Create your store using Prestashop

Now we will install our shop using Prestashop. These two facilities may well be on the same computer, just use two different directories as: Magento and Prestashop, for example.

First, follow the steps of our video describing the installation of PrestaShop locally .

As you have already installed Apache and Mysql database in the previous step, you can skip the first part and go straight to installing Prestashop shop with his example.

Installing Prestashop including a shop for example, your shop is directly usable.

Use of shops

Your two shops are now operational, it'll just use them. For this you can use our video: How to put products into your PrestaShop store to add items to your ecommerce. We will soon publish the same type of article for Magento.

Tentative conclusion

Here, we reached the end of our first game.

If you are not completely resolved for the software you used for your online store, having the two software installed on the same computer, you can more easily compare them and then you can choose one which best corresponds to your store.

Each software has its advantages and disadvantages. Prestashop is a first easier, especially for administration and management, especially for small shops. Magento is more complete and has a number of possibilities that did not Prestashop, or has not (multiboutiques ...).

We will see in a future article, once your chosen ecommerce software, how to install it in a hosting and how to get your online store.

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