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Table of Contents

Introduction to Home Carousel ..................................................................................... 3

How to Install and Deactivate ........................................................................................ 4

How to Configure .......................................................................................................... 5

How to Use ................................................................................................................... 7

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Prestashop Home Carousel allows you to draw attention of your potential customers to your

products. One of the main design trends in internet stores, homepage sliders is a tried and effective

way to increase sales, not to mention site’s improved usability. The module has several sliders to

choose from and add to the homepage: Categories, New and Featured products, Bestsellers and

Items on sale. Products are added to the New, Featured and Bestselling sliders automatically. You

may select one carousel or many sliders to be displayed at once.

Key features:

Home carousels

Many types of sliders

Automatically added content

Possibility of displaying the content of the selected categories

Links to the product pages and categories in the slider

1. Introduction to Home Carousel

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How to Install

1. Set 777 or 0777 on the folders: '/modules/'

Important! Change all permissions back after installation.

2. Modules -> Add a module from my computer -> Choose the file (belvg_homecarousel.zip) ->

Upload this module. Choose module in section "Front Office Features" and install module

3. Preferences -> Performance -> Smarty-> Force compile -> Yes

Preferences -> Performance -> Smarty-> Cache: No

How to Deactivate

Click the button Disable in Modules -> Front Office Features.

To remove the extension form the server, press Delete in Modules -> Front Office Features.

2. How to Install and Deactivate

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Log in to the back-office, and we will show you how to configure the module step by step.

Go to Modules -> Carousel Slider -> Configure.

Category images slider displays categories you select. In order to add a category to this slider, go to

Catalog -> Categories -> [edit the category]. In the Image field, add the picture. All the categories with

pictures will be displayed in this slider, if enabled.

In the Image type drop-down, select the image type that will be displayed in the slider.

In the Featured slider, all the featured products are displayed. In order to make a product featured,

edit it in Catalog -> Products. In the Associations tab, select the Home Associated Category.

In the New slider, all the newly added products are displayed.

In the Sale and Bestsellers sliders, products on sale and bestselling items are displayed respectively.

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For Categories slider, select categories that you want to be displayed together with their products.

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If configured, sliders appear on the homepage.

4. How to Use

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Do you have questions about extension configurations?

Contact us and we will help you in a moment.

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