{"id":2027,"date":"2022-08-11T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T15:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agence-becomweb.fr\/blog\/how-to-test-a-new-prestashop-module\/"},"modified":"2022-08-11T17:29:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T15:29:03","slug":"how-to-test-a-new-prestashop-module","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agence-becomweb.fr\/en\/blog\/how-to-test-a-new-prestashop-module\/","title":{"rendered":"How to test a new Prestashop module"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Do you want to install a new module on your Prestashop store but would like to test it before making it available to your customers? Here is the method to use.<\/p>\n\n

Foreword: preprod, sandbox, draft, et caetera<\/h2>\n\n

Before you start reading what follows, know that the best method to test a Prestashop module is not the one described below.<\/p>\n\n

The best method is to have a test environment.<\/p>\n\n

Terms vary; we often talk about “preprod”, “sandbox”, “draft”, etc; but all these titles basically describe the same thing: a test environment. In other words, a copy of your Prestashop store, hosted on another domain or subdomain (eg: https:\/\/test.maboutique.com<\/em>), with the same source files and the same configuration than your “real” shop.<\/p>\n\n

This environment is useful for you, as a merchant or manager of a shop, to do everything that you cannot do on the production environment: test, tinker, check,… \nYou can afford to crash your environment test, not the production one!<\/p>\n\n

Setting up a test environment takes some time and skill. If you haven’t (ecnore) taken the time to do so, you can fall back on the solution explained in this tutorial.<\/p>\n\n

Create a customer group dedicated to testing<\/h2>\n\n

Prestashop allows you to manage “customer groups”. Natively it offers 3: “Visitor”, “Guest” and “Client”. But you can add as many new groups as you want.<\/p>\n\n

To do this, you must go to the “Shop parameters” menu, then “Customers”. Then go to the “Groups” tab and click on “Add a new group”.<\/p>\n\n

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Create a new customer group to test a Prestashop module<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Remember to associate your test customer account with this new group (from the “Customers” menu).<\/p>\n\n

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Integrate your test customer account into the new group.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Limit module access or display to test group<\/h2>\n\n

To restrict access or display of the module to the new test group, until you validate its proper functioning, there is one general method and 2 alternative methods (for the payment and transport modules).<\/p>\n\n

The general method is to “unauthorize” the module for all customer groups except for the “Test” group<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

From the list of customer groups, click on the “Modify” button to access the group configuration form (here the “Visitor” group). Go down a bit on the page, identify the module to be tested in the “Authorized modules” list and switch the switch to “No”. Don’t forget to save.<\/p>\n\n

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For each customer-group you can deactivate the module from the list of authorized modules<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Repeat the operation for all the client groups (except the “Test” group of course).<\/p>\n\n

Test a payment module for Prestashop<\/h2>\n\n

If you want to test a payment module there is an alternative (and faster) method.<\/p>\n\n

Access the “Payment > Preferences” menu. On this page you will find all the restrictions of the payment modules (it is for example in this menu that you can restrict the access of a payment module to the people of one or more countries).<\/p>\n\n

You will find a “Group Restrictions” block. So that the payment method is only displayed for members of the “Test” group, you just have to uncheck the boxes for the other groups.<\/p>\n\n

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Reserve the payment module only for members of the test group.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Test a shipping module for Prestashop<\/h2>\n\n

To test a transport module, the method is quite the same.<\/p>\n\n

Here it is not the delivery module itself that is restricted to a group but rather a carrier.<\/p>\n\n

Go to the “Shipping > Carriers” menu and identify the delivery method you want to reserve for the “Test” group. From the list, click on the corresponding “Modify” button.<\/p>\n\n

On step 3 (“Siez, weight and group access”), select the “Test” group only then click “Finish” to save the changes.<\/p>\n\n

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You can also limit a carrier for a customer group<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

End of tests: make the module accessible to all customers<\/h2>\n\n

All tests passed and greeen-lighted ?<\/p>\n\n

Now is the time to make the module available to all customers.<\/p>\n\n

Remove the restrictions you put in place earlier and you’re done.<\/p>\n\n

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Credits : Pressfoto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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