Joomla vs PrestaShop | TrustRadius

Likelihood to Recommend

Joomla! is a great CMS for companies who are looking for flexibility and extensibility. With the right set of extensions, it's extremely secure and able to power any type of website, from simple to complex. Any time a business wants to do more than just put up content and pretty pictures on their website, Joomla! is my recommendation. For companies, however, that are looking for simple brochure websites without a lot of complexity, it might be too much. Also, for companies that are looking for enterprise-level solutions with white-glove support, an open-source CMS may generally not be the best path, unless they also have a dedicated vendor who provides that type of support.

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Lisa Keyser

Owner | Principal

LMK Web Design & ConsultingInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Prestashop offers a quick solution for companies who want a scalable solution in less time and with a low budget requirement. It's perfect for startup and pilot-projects. For example, it's very hard to put Prestashop in the middle of a multi-channel business due to security risks, difficult to exchange data from one database to another, API requests and more.

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Marco Casieri

Store and Project Manager

Blufin S.p.A.Apparel & Fashion, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Joomla

PrestaShop

Role-based user permissions

Joomla

PrestaShop

API

Internationalization / multi-language

Joomla

PrestaShop

WYSIWYG editor

Code quality / cleanliness

Admin section

Page templates

Library of website themes

Mobile optimization / responsive design

Publishing workflow

Form generator

Joomla

PrestaShop

Content taxonomy

SEO support

Bulk management

Availability / breadth of extensions

Community / comment management

Joomla

PrestaShop

Product catalog & listings

Product management

Bulk product upload

Branding

Mobile storefront

Product variations

Website integration

Visual customization

CMS

Joomla

PrestaShop

Abandoned cart recovery

Checkout user experience

Joomla

PrestaShop

eCommerce security

Joomla

PrestaShop

Promotions & discounts

Personalized recommendations

SEO

Joomla

PrestaShop

Multi-site management

Order processing

Inventory management

Shipping

Custom functionality

Pros

It is very easy to create any project using Joomla. Easy to use and easy to publish and maintain.
Joomla! has many add-on and extensions to support the full range of features.
It is based on Open Source with the strong support from many communities

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Ilham AB

Senior Solution Architect

Three.Telecommunications, 501-1000 employees

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Easy to install and have up quickly.
Lots of potential for customization and development overrides to shape the system the way it is needed.
Constant upgrades and bug fixes.
Lots of add-ons to choose.

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Shay O'Neil

Web / Applications Developer

Sutter's Mill SpecialtiesLuxury Goods & Jewelry, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Updating was never as seamless/easy as it seems to be with Wordpress. Obviously we accounted for this with our own workflow/methods, but I remember whenever we did WordPress updates it always seemed a breeze compared to the time/energy involved with a Joomla update/upgrade.
For a while (I think this has changed some) Joomla left itself open to attacks when administrators were not as well versed as they should be. There were developer additions that did security checks/audits for you, but the CMS was the subject of a lot of attacks when left in the hands of our clients for a long time (who had changed permissions to make editing easier/convenient). Ideally the CMS would have been more restrictive on some of these things to prevent easy abuse. Obviously this is more the fault of the misinformed/human then the CMS, but it could have been more dummy-proof.
No native versioning. There are some community extensions that add this functionality, but they pale in comparison to the versioning plugins of other CMS's (WordPress specifically). Again this was some time ago and in our experience, it could have changed by now.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees

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Inconvenient bugs
Instability
Limited demo site

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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Consumer Goods Company, 1-10 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Joomla 10.0

Based on 28 answers

I gave it a rating of 10 because I just love how Joomla! works, how it is set up and how it handles many users. Also it is very fast, and there is no overload on the MySQL database or servers ever.

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Leontine Vandermeer

Owner

Lionsites Web DesignInternet, 1-10 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Usability

Joomla 9.9

Based on 7 answers

Joomla! 3.x is easily installed either manually or via a script provided by your host. It contains most of the tools needed to begin creating websites right from the start. Those features that it doesn't have are easily installed via links and buttons from the thousands of extensions available in the community

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Rita Lewis

Freelance Web Designer and Content Strategist

Words To Web, Inc.Online Media, 1-10 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Performance

Joomla 7.8

Based on 2 answers

Today's Modern Joomla performs very well and is robust and durable. The pages load faster than they ever did in the past and Modern Joomla's integration into other software or systems has become seamless. Modern Joomla sites will last long and will stay running forever.

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James Fauria

Webmaster \ Web Developer for the City of Pomona

Jaymersun Website ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Support

Joomla 10.0

Based on 4 answers

Between the core Joomla developers who are excellent at answering questions and providing support, you have a whole community of developers who work with Joomla and are happy to help fellow developers out answering questions and supporting the Joomla project. Out of the many communities I am involved in for open-source software, Joomla's community is by far the best.

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Jen Garfinkel-Canseco

Owner - Web Designer/Developer/Marketer

Programmer JenInternet, 1-10 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Implementation

Joomla 8.7

Based on 3 answers

Joomla has gone through tremendous growing pains. It is now better than ever. But before, when it was going from 1.5-2.5, the templates and plugins would break over and over again. If you don't understand what Joomla was trying to do back then, you might have a bad attitude toward it. Today, those pains are over and things don't break like they used to during that time period.

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James Fauria

Webmaster \ Web Developer for the City of Pomona

Jaymersun Website ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Alternatives Considered

I think Joomla is on-par with Drupal and Umbraco and similar platforms, but WordPress does seem to be above it. WordPress has become so common that there are more and more features becoming available to it that exceed the Joomla platform and make it hard to compete with. WordPress is also a lot easier for new users to get into and understand, but Joomla is still relatively simple.

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Miles Szkoda

Web Content Manager

VertMarkets, Inc.Publishing, 51-200 employees

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From a developer point of view Prestashop offers more than other similar platforms.

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Marco Casieri

Store and Project Manager

Blufin S.p.A.Apparel & Fashion, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

Reduces Maintenance Expense - Simple interface saves clients money on site management by allowing inhouse management where desired
Ease of Updating - Reduces website upgrade expense by allowing template upgrades without the need for redevelopment of content
Scalability is huge - Client gains entry to an enterprise level web presence with a smaller budget and can grow/add functionality as the budget allows without a redevelopment of the entire site.

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Verified User

Partner in Other

Internet Company, 1-10 employees

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Not sure, it is the only e-commerce platform we have used.

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Shay O'Neil

Web / Applications Developer

Sutter's Mill SpecialtiesLuxury Goods & Jewelry, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

Joomla

PrestaShop

Joomla

PrestaShop

Joomla

PrestaShop

Joomla

PrestaShop

Joomla

PrestaShop

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PrestaShop

Likelihood to Recommend

Joomla

PrestaShop

Feature Rating Comparison

Role-based user permissions

API

Internationalization / multi-language

WYSIWYG editor

Code quality / cleanliness

Admin section

Page templates

Library of website themes

Mobile optimization / responsive design

Publishing workflow

Form generator

Content taxonomy

SEO support

Bulk management

Availability / breadth of extensions

Community / comment management

Product catalog & listings

Product management

Bulk product upload

Branding

Mobile storefront

Product variations

Website integration

Visual customization

CMS

Abandoned cart recovery

Checkout user experience

eCommerce security

Promotions & discounts

Personalized recommendations

SEO

Multi-site management

Order processing

Inventory management

Shipping

Custom functionality

Pros

Joomla

PrestaShop

Cons

Joomla

PrestaShop

Likelihood to Renew

Joomla

PrestaShop

Usability

Joomla

PrestaShop

Performance

Joomla

PrestaShop

Support

Joomla

PrestaShop

Implementation

Joomla

PrestaShop

Alternatives Considered

Joomla

PrestaShop

Return on Investment

Joomla

PrestaShop

Screenshots

Joomla

PrestaShop

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services