PrestaShop vs. Wix

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
PrestaShop
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
PrestaShop 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…N/A
Wix
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Wix is a free, hosted website builder, designed to be user-friendly and customizable without requiring coding from the user. It is well-known for its eCommerce solution, which allows users to build an online store.
$14
per month
Pricing
PrestaShopWix
Editions & Modules
PrestaShop
Free
Website Plan - Combo
$14
per month
Website Plan - Unlimited
$18
per month
Website Plan - Pro
$23
per month
Business & e Commerce Plans - Business Basic
$23
per month
Business & e Commerce Plans - Business Unlimited
$27
per month
Website Plan - VIP
$39
per month
Business & e Commerce Plans - Business VIP
$49
per month
Enterprise
$500
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PrestaShopWix
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
PrestaShopWix
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
PrestaShop
7.3
5 Ratings
5% below category average
Wix
-
Ratings
Product catalog & listings9.75 Ratings00 Ratings
Product management7.75 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk product upload5.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Branding5.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile storefront9.75 Ratings00 Ratings
Product variations5.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Website integration9.85 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual customization6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
CMS7.85 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
PrestaShop
6.9
5 Ratings
9% below category average
Wix
-
Ratings
Abandoned cart recovery6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Checkout user experience7.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
PrestaShop
7.8
5 Ratings
6% below category average
Wix
-
Ratings
eCommerce security7.85 Ratings00 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
PrestaShop
6.6
12 Ratings
12% below category average
Wix
-
Ratings
Promotions & discounts7.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Personalized recommendations5.14 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO6.912 Ratings00 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
PrestaShop
9.0
5 Ratings
14% above category average
Wix
-
Ratings
Multi-site management7.85 Ratings00 Ratings
Order processing8.85 Ratings00 Ratings
Inventory management9.65 Ratings00 Ratings
Shipping10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom functionality8.75 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
PrestaShop
-
Ratings
Wix
7.0
61 Ratings
14% below category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings7.061 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
PrestaShop
-
Ratings
Wix
6.9
48 Ratings
11% below category average
API00 Ratings6.944 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings6.833 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
PrestaShop
-
Ratings
Wix
7.7
93 Ratings
1% above category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings6.082 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings8.866 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings8.284 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings7.893 Ratings
Library of website themes00 Ratings8.490 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings7.893 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings8.279 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings6.176 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
PrestaShop
-
Ratings
Wix
6.7
85 Ratings
9% below category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings6.966 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings8.474 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings6.648 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings5.568 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings6.053 Ratings
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User Ratings
PrestaShopWix
Likelihood to Recommend
7.6
(13 ratings)
7.4
(93 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
1.0
(1 ratings)
7.0
(4 ratings)
Usability
3.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(7 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Performance
7.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
2.0
(1 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
PrestaShopWix
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Wix
The fact of Wix moving away from their ADI web-building tool in favour of Editor, in my opinion, makes a huge mess of everything. I feel a lot of the ease and automation of designing my website has gone to such an extent that I now "recommend" Wix only for professional developers. Worse is that I have to redesign a big part of my website as items are now linked to each other in a different way than used to be the case. In my opinion, A big ZERO for Wix, who clearly should do their homework again.
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Pros
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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Wix
  • Easy to create and duplicate website, and web pages for similar products, services and campaigns, so you do not have to start from scratch
  • Find features such as video, image and button, and templates to customise your website's feel and look. For example, recently, I was able to add a countdown timer for the sale of tickets to our online conference.
  • Creating website Anchors - making it easy for you to take a visitor to a particular part of a page so that they do not need to scroll through the entire webpage making it more user-friendly.
  • The SEO part of Wix makes it easy for you to set up meta data, create fully functional social media shares that are on brand and looks professional in the Google search engine..
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Cons
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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Wix
  • One place where Wix falls short of other CMS's is with insights and analytics. On other platforms, I can instantly see how many page views I received, what time the pages were viewed, location, etc. But seeing this information on Wix requires a Google Analytics integration that is not automatically included when you make an account. You have to first go to Google Analytics to make an account, then come back to Wix to activate the integration, it's a little time-consuming for a feature that most CMS's come with instantly.
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Likelihood to Renew
PrestaShop
Considering the problems we had and still have, 0.
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Wix
We will definitely renew Wix. The ability to completely control our website has been invaluable to us. We will maintain this service as long as we are an incorporated organization, we've tried several other software options and this has been the best solution by far for all of our needs.
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Usability
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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Wix
Great customization, but a pain to backtrack. They recently added the ability to set fonts etc as headings, title, body etc, but if you did not begin your build with these presets you are screwed if you ever try to change font/ colors/layout etc.
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Reliability and Availability
PrestaShop
100s of implementation and so far no major security breaches.
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Wix
I never had an outage issue per say. I would say it was very reliable of a website building platform and as a marketing source there was never any issues connecting it to the server. I don’t recall there being any editing tools or hosting issues. Nothing went down when using it.
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Performance
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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Wix
Not complex at all. It teaches you how to use their platform in a dynamic way. Each tutorial offers an explanation that can be reviewed later on. The connection speed of a web page has been smooth so far, with no major problems regarding this subject. Overall, Wix can manage 10+ pages with great connection speed.
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Support Rating
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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Wix
As stated before I didn’t use the support as I did not have the feature and did not often enough need the help. I was able to figure it out mostly on my own by exploring the site. I’ve found exploring and playing on it told me how to do most things.
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Implementation Rating
PrestaShop
No answers on this topic
Wix
Like I said I was a beginner so it was fun to navigate and teach myself how to implement the features when building and maintaining my site. It was a fairly easy place to host my domain, and creat something simple.
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Alternatives Considered
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.
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Wix
Wix is a great starting platform for anyone looking to create a website. It definitely holds its own against any other all in one website creation platform. The one thing I would say is if your main focus is solely on eCommerce you may be better off using something like Squarespace which is specifically designed for that market.
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Scalability
PrestaShop
This is the best example of "If it's not broken, don't fix it!".
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Wix
I give this rating to Wix because it's a great content creator. It has a great platform and also offers great customer service. If you encounter any technical issues, with Wix you will find a solution. For premium members or domain holders, this is the same as for Trial members or non-domain holders.
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Return on Investment
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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Wix
  • The data-driven, dynamic pages will eliminate an entire part of our event launch process. Multiplied across 60 events, over several years, that will save us a ton of time but also vastly increase the quality of our presentation.
  • The data-driven pages will also give us the ability to archive past events and radio shows in an easily searchable manner. This will be helpful for us when it comes to booking new events as well. (It has been no small feat for me to figure out the code to get this all working, though!)
  • This new site will reflect our brand and organization vastly better than our old site. It will make our organization appear much more professional and legitimate.
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