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  • Several static pages are created, thus providing you the means to indicate legally required informations to your customer. For more, see "Legal content management".
  • The final summary in the last step of the checkout is also enabled.
  • The option 'Display tax in the shopping cart' is enabled
  • "Free" shipping conditions : sometimes, the default carrier of your default country may be free and this information is displayed on the shopping cart page even if you haven't set your address and delivery method during checkout. Because the final shopping cost depends on the address and chosen carrier the Legal Compliance module will automatically add a mention "under conditions" which links to the static page "Shipping and Payment" where you should write every detail of the shipping conditions and costs.
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  • The opt-in for Terms of Services will also include the Revocation Terms (if available) during the checkout
     

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This option allows you to add a custom text in the shopping cart, giving you the opportunity to inform the customers about how the order is legally confirmed and how the order data will be used and/or saved.

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FEATURES

Enable 'Reordering' feature

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  • carriers' shipping costs (in IMPROVE / Shipping / Carriers / your carrier)
  • handling charges (in IMPROVE / Shipping / Preferences)
  • additional shipping fees (in SELL / Catalog / Products / your product)

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Legal content management
LEGAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT

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To complete these pages, go to IMPROVE / Design /  CMS . (TO DO: add link to the corresponding doc)and read more about Managing Static Content (link soon available for 1.7).

The Legal Compliance has 7 pre-defined topics that serve different roles in different conditions. These topics are :

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The links to these static pages will automatically be part of the footer of the front-office, thus accessible for your customers at any time. Which looks like this in the footer of the front-office:

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EMAIL CONTENT INCLUSION

This section allows you to include information from the "Legal Content Management" section above at the bottom of your shop's emails. For each type of email, you can define which content you would like to include. By default, several legal contents are already pre-configured to be included in some email templates. Please note that the list of email templates in this section does not contains email templates from external modules.

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Depending on your local legislation, your may be required to display a unit price for products that can be quantified with volume or mass (€/kg or €/L...). You may can set this unit price in the configuration page of your product:

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  1. In SELL / Catalog / Attributes & Features, go to "Add new attribute", name it "Diagonal" with public name "Diag.", select attribute type "Radio buttons" and save.
  2. Back in SELL / Catalog / Attributes & Features, click on the newly created attribute "Diagonal" in the table.
  3. Then go to "Add new value", set up "138 cm (55'')" and save.
  4. In SELL / Catalog / Products / Television, check the radio button 'Product with combinations' in the first tab 'Basic Settings"
  5. In the second tab 'Combinations', check "138 cm (55'')" in Diag. (or type it in the text bar). Then generate the combination.
  6. You now have an additional detail in the shopping cart summary:

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If you've created a custom carrier (in IMPROVE / Shipping / Carriers), you should make sure that the field transit time does not contradict the delivery time label you may have set up with the Legal Compliance module.

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In countries like Switzerland, some additional fees may be added when the product crosses the border. To warn the customer about these fees, you may edit the transit time field of your swiss carrier (if you've created it manually). 

Newsletter subscription

how to configure it, what to put in the Privacy policy page about the newsletter[to be completed]

Customer reassurance module

What to put in it.

Bankwire module

remove the double invitation to payThis module displays more information to reassure your customers. It does not have any sample content by default but it is up to you (and your legal team) to fill it with the proper text. For instance, you may use it do display information about the return policy, the shipping fees and data security. Be careful not to put anything that could contradict other indications.

Bankwire module

In some countries, when paying with bank wire, the customer doesn't have to pay until he receives his order confirmation. Make sure to switch off 'Display the invitation to pay in the order confirmation page' in the module's configuration page, so that the customer receives the invitation to pay by email only.

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Tax settings

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PrestaShop's core and native modules will allow you to comply with most of the every functional requirements from the certification authorities.
However there are some elements like content or external modules that are specific to your shop that are , and it is your responsibility to configure or fill-inmake sure they're compliant. These elements are:

  • the legal content in static pages that contain legal information
  • payment modules
  • newsletter modules
  • shipping modules

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