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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Drupal

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/ADrupal is a free, open-source content management system written in PHP that competes primarily with Joomla and Plone. The standard release of Drupal, known as Drupal core, contains basic features such as account and menu management, RSS feeds, page layout customization, and system administration.N/A

    PrestaShop

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/APrestaShop is a free, open source e-commerce solution available under the Open Software License and officially launched in August 2007. The software is written in PHP and based on the Smarty template engine and is currently used by 165,000 shops worldwide. The PrestaShop group was founded in Paris, with a second Headquarters opened in Miami in 2011. PrestaShop is translated into 63 languages, with English, French, Portuguese, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish and Russian having full…

    $24

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    Pricing
    DrupalPrestaShop
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    PrestaShop Hosted
    $24
    per month
    PrestaShop
    Free
    Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DrupalPrestaShop
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPrices are in Euros.
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    Community Pulse
    DrupalPrestaShop
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    Open Source
    No answer on this topic
    PrestaShop
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    76%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    75%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    71%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    76%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    75%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    75%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    DrupalPrestaShop
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Drupal and PrestaShop
    Feature
    Drupal
    8.2
    74 Ratings
    1% below category average
    PrestaShop
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.274 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Drupal and PrestaShop
    Feature
    Drupal
    7.8
    69 Ratings
    0% below category average
    PrestaShop
    -
    Ratings
    API7.364 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language8.260 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Drupal and PrestaShop
    Feature
    Drupal
    6.5
    78 Ratings
    19% below category average
    PrestaShop
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor6.371 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.275 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section6.978 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates5.677 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes5.568 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design6.572 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow6.776 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator6.672 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Drupal and PrestaShop
    Feature
    Drupal
    6.6
    77 Ratings
    13% below category average
    PrestaShop
    -
    Ratings
    Content taxonomy6.971 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support6.472 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management6.467 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions6.670 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management6.869 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of Drupal and PrestaShop
    Feature
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    PrestaShop
    7.3
    5 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Product catalog & listings00 Ratings9.75 Ratings
    Product management00 Ratings7.75 Ratings
    Bulk product upload00 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    Branding00 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    Mobile storefront00 Ratings9.75 Ratings
    Product variations00 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    Website integration00 Ratings9.85 Ratings
    Visual customization00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    CMS00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
    Online Shopping Cart
    Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Drupal and PrestaShop
    Feature
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    PrestaShop
    6.9
    5 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Abandoned cart recovery00 Ratings6.03 Ratings
    Checkout user experience00 Ratings7.95 Ratings
    Online Payment System
    Comparison of Online Payment System features of Drupal and PrestaShop
    Feature
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    PrestaShop
    7.8
    5 Ratings
    7% below category average
    eCommerce security00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Drupal and PrestaShop
    Feature
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    PrestaShop
    6.6
    12 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Promotions & discounts00 Ratings7.95 Ratings
    Personalized recommendations00 Ratings5.14 Ratings
    SEO00 Ratings6.912 Ratings
    eCommerce Business Management
    Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Drupal and PrestaShop
    Feature
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    PrestaShop
    9.0
    5 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Multi-site management00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
    Order processing00 Ratings8.85 Ratings
    Inventory management00 Ratings9.65 Ratings
    Shipping00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Custom functionality00 Ratings8.75 Ratings
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    Umbraco CMS
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Square Online
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Shopify
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
    IBM Digital Commerce
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DrupalPrestaShop
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.8
    (87 ratings)
    7.6
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    1.0
    (19 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    6.9
    (20 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (5 ratings)
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DrupalPrestaShop
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    If you want to set up a basic Not For Profit (NFP) Membership system and content base, Word Press is easier than Drupal. However, if you have specific needs that require a fair bit of customisation then Drupal is the best CRM available. If the webmaster is confident with PHP and SQL, Drupal allows a lot of creativity.
    Incentivized
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    PrestaShop
    This is a great system for small and medium businesses dealing from 1 product to 100,000 products. It is elegant to use and very stable. The system may not be great for converting into a marketplace and the handling of > 1million products. The system is also not suitable for services selling like events, registrations, subscriptions and ticket bookings etc.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • Drag and drop functionality is easy to use
    • Easy to switch between straight text and HTML content
    • Ability to easily have multiple environments so that pages can be built in b/c-stage before they are approved and published
    • Solid user experience where it's clear how to navigate the platform
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    PrestaShop
    • The PayPal button modality was integrated with the PrestaShop system, which helped our clients to complete payments digitally in just a few seconds, this integrated button allowed to streamline many transactions.
    • Performing inventory reviews and modifying the PrestaShop catalog was one of the things that I liked the most, I could make changes to the catalog, make changes to the conditions of the products in the catalog and all those changes were reflected on my website in a instant, no need to wait some time.
    • The PrestaShop system created a digital invoice for each client who made the advance payment of a property, which made it even easier to complete the property negotiation. Customers came to our company with the digital invoice for the advance payment and it was easy to identify the property that was paid, thanks to the digital invoice.
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • This is not an easy CMS to work with if you don't have a good understanding of website development. It isn't "plug-and-play" like Wordpress or Shopify.
    • Over time, doing major updates to the system can be taxing, especially if you aren't well-versed enough in doing system updates in line with your "child" theme and code.
    • The CMS can become somewhat cumbersome with server resources if not carefully optimized while you build and customize it to your liking.
    Incentivized
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    PrestaShop
    • Not a lot of free templates.
    • Images can sometimes be too compressed and lose their full quality, so better settings for that could be introduced.
    • Being able to change the look of your automatic emails via default settings can also be introduced.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Open Source
    The time and money invested into this platform were too great to discontinue it at this point. I'm sure it will be in use for a while. We have also spent time training many employees how to use it. All of these things add up to quite an investment in the product. Lastly, it basically fulfills what we need our intranet site to do.
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    PrestaShop
    Considering the problems we had and still have, 0.
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    Usability
    Open Source
    As a team, we found Drupal to be highly customizable and flexible, allowing our development team to go to great lengths to develop desired functionalities. It can be used as a solution for all types of web projects. It comes with a robust admin interface that provides greater flexibility once the user gets acquainted with the system.
    Incentivized
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    PrestaShop
    The lack of performance and the unstable system make it very hard to use it for a serious e-commerce application.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Open Source
    Drupal itself does not tend to have bugs that cause sporadic outages. When deployed on a well-configured LAMP stack, deployment and maintenance problems are minimal, and in general no exotic tuning or configuration is required. For highest uptime, putting a caching proxy like Varnish in front of Drupal (or a CDN that supports dynamic applications).
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    PrestaShop
    100s of implementation and so far no major security breaches.
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    Performance
    Open Source
    Drupal page loads can be slow, as a great many database calls may be required to generate a page. It is highly recommended to use caching systems, both built-in and external to lessen such database loads and improve performance. I haven't had any problems with behind-the-scenes integrations with external systems.
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    PrestaShop
    Some caching and optimization is definitely needed. However, it is not as bloated as other CMSs with lots of plugins needed.
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    Support Rating
    Open Source
    As noted earlier, the support of the community can be rather variable, with some modules attracting more attraction and action in their issue queues, but overall, the development community for Drupal is second to none. It probably the single greatest aspect of being involved in this open-source project.
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    PrestaShop
    Since we use PrestaShop OpenSource there is only community support. What we found is that many other users fight with the same problems and there seems no solution or input from the PrestaShop developers' side.
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    In-Person Training
    Open Source
    I was part of the team that conducted the training. Our training was fine, but we could have been better informed on Drupal before we started providing it. If we did not have answers to tough questions, we had more technical staff we could consult with. We did provide hands-on practice time for the learners, which I would always recommend. That is where the best learning occurred.
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    PrestaShop
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Open Source
    The on-line training was not as ideal as the face-to-face training. It was done remotely and only allowed for the trainers to present information to the learners and demonstrate the platform online. There was not a good way to allow for the learners to practice, ask questions and have them answered all in the same session.
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    PrestaShop
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Open Source
    Plan ahead as much you can. You really need to know how to build what you want with the modules available to you, or that you might need to code yourself, in order to make the best use of Drupal. I recommend you analyze the most technically difficult workflows and other aspects of your implementation, and try building some test versions of those first. Get feedback from stakeholders early and often, because you can easily find yourself in a situation where your implementation does 90% of what you want, but, due to something you didn't plan for, foresee, or know about, there's no feasible way to get past the last 10%
    Incentivized
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    PrestaShop
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    Drupal can be more complex to learn, but it offers a much wider range of applications. Drupal’s front and backend can be customized from design to functionality to allow for a wide range of uses. If someone wants to create something more complex than a simple site or blog, Drupal can be an amazing asset to have at hand.
    Incentivized
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    PrestaShop
    It's a no-brainer for e-commerce stores. BigCommerce and Magento both far out-distanced PrestaShop in every major category. If you're just getting into e-commerce, I would highly recommend either BigCommerce or Magento. Their online documentation and support far outweigh any advantages you'd have over going with an open source software like PrestaShop.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Open Source
    Drupal is well known to be scalable, although it requires solid knowledge of MySQL best practices, caching mechanisms, and other server-level best practices. I have never personally dealt with an especially large site, so I can speak well to the issues associated with Drupal scaling.
    Incentivized
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    PrestaShop
    This is the best example of "If it's not broken, don't fix it!".
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • Given the endless possibilities that Drupal can have, we tend to have great support going on when we get a website launched
    • It has become much much faster and easier for us to launch a new project due to reusability
    • Configuration management in Drupal helps greatly with CI/CD, saves us costs
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    PrestaShop
    • It slowed down our Hosting service. Our website took a long time to fully load on our clients' devices due to the high consumption of the integration with the PrestaShop service.
    • It provided us with a fast billing service, where our clients obtained invoices in PDF mode for the electronic payments they made for the properties. These digital invoices helped us to recognize the property they wanted faster and streamlined the negotiation process.
    • The templates that had an optimized design, were too expensive, this caused that our catalog design was very simple and did not capture the interest of customers.
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