Employees and user security

If you plan to employ someone, or if you have a partner who is going to help with your new shop, it makes good sense to create a new user account so that they have their own login details. Even if it will be only you who needs to use the PrestaShop control panel, there is still a good argument for creating two or more accounts. Here's why.

First we will consider a scenario, though a slightly exaggerated one:

• Bikes4U.com

  Bikes4U wants to offer articles about how to use its products. The management, probably correctly, believe that in-depth how-tos about all its products will boost sales and increase customer retention.

  The diverse nature of their products makes employing a single writer impossible. For example, an expert on mountain bikes will rarely be an expert on unicycles. And a user of folding bikes probably won't know about clipless pedals.

  This is quite a problem. The management decides they need a way to allow a whole team of freelance writers who can login...