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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Laravel PHP Framework

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/ALaravel is a free, open source web application PHP framework.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…

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    Laravel PHP FrameworkPrestaShop
    Editions & Modules
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    PrestaShop Hosted
    $24
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    PrestaShop
    Free
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    Laravel PHP FrameworkPrestaShop
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Prices are in Euros.
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    Community Pulse
    Laravel PHP FrameworkPrestaShop
    Considered Both Products
    Open Source
    No answer on this topic
    PrestaShop
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    75%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    71%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    75%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    75%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    Laravel PHP FrameworkPrestaShop
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of Laravel PHP Framework and PrestaShop
    Feature
    Laravel PHP Framework
    -
    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 Laravel PHP Framework and PrestaShop
    Feature
    Laravel PHP Framework
    -
    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 Laravel PHP Framework and PrestaShop
    Feature
    Laravel PHP Framework
    -
    Ratings
    PrestaShop
    7.8
    5 Ratings
    7% below category average
    eCommerce security00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Laravel PHP Framework and PrestaShop
    Feature
    Laravel PHP Framework
    -
    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 Laravel PHP Framework and PrestaShop
    Feature
    Laravel PHP Framework
    -
    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
    Best Alternatives
    Laravel PHP FrameworkPrestaShop
    Small Businesses
    CodeIgniter
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Symfony
    Score10 out of 10
    Shopify
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    IBM Digital Commerce
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Laravel PHP FrameworkPrestaShop
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (21 ratings)
    7.6
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Laravel PHP FrameworkPrestaShop
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    I would say that Laravel is not a suitable framework for high-frequency, high-volume, real-time interaction or processing millions of records in batch operations. It shines for standard database web applications (CRUD, Admin Panels, etc.) and is a fantastic multi-developer framework.
    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
    • Laravel utilizes the best possible PHP standards and coding practices.
    • Laravel uses many widely-accepted community libraries and builds upon them, rather than re-inventing everything.
    • Laravel has many components available from the community and is extremely easy to build custom components for, either with custom code or by integrating existing third-party PHP libraries.
    • Laravel is flexible enough to power pretty much any kind of application I can imagine.
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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
    • Laravel is updated regularly, which is great. However, in order to get the latest features, use the newest 3rd party libraries, have the most current security updates, and ensure that the newest features of PHP are usable, you have to continuously upgrade your Laravel application. This costs time and money, obviously, and if you don't stay on top of the updates you will quickly fall behind. This is the case with any open source software, but it needs to be considered for any team considering using Laravel or any other software.
    • Because of the size of the Laravel community, there are a LOT of 3rd party libraries. Some of these are great, some are less than great. Sometimes it's difficult to evaluate the quality of a library, making it difficult to trust many libraries. Developers need to be cautious and thoughtful when considering using new software.
    • Because of the rapid development of the Laravel framework, the size of the community, and the simplicity of being able to publish content online - it is very easy to find documentation, tutorials, or other "advice" that is not up to date, or that has outdated information.
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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.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Open Source
    Laravel PHP Framework has continued to exceed my expectations. It supported me in the development of a high quality and stable web application that is mission critical for the organization. I cannot imagine wanting to use any other tool for web development. Documentation, unit tests, and numerous integration options make using Laravel PHP Framework a natural choice.
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    PrestaShop
    Considering the problems we had and still have, 0.
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    Usability
    Open Source
    As I mentioned earlier Laravel PHP Framework has lot of in built feature as well as there is vast set of packages available to add the features in your application. It has very large community who can help when you feel stuck somewhere. This is why this rating is justified.
    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
    No answers on this topic
    PrestaShop
    100s of implementation and so far no major security breaches.
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    Performance
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    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
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    Supporting unit testing is bigger plus point in Laravel than any other framework. Developing with Laravel is much easier. Other frameworks have value in market, but Laravel has taken the lead in popularity among PHP developers in recent years. The large community supports you if you have problems. Using Laravel, integration became easy with third-party libraries, but it was costly too.
    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
    No answers on this topic
    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
    • Positive: Our delivery time for PHP application is faster than usual.
    • Positive: Developers are happy and they write better code with their usual development tools. No tool-upgrade necessary.
    • Negative: Initial delivery took 6 months extra and had to rewrite project several times.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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